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Nate Silver Tackles The Canadian Stanley Cup Drought
In nine days, we will celebrate(?) the 20th anniversary of Montreal's '93 championship, the last time a Canadian team hoisted the Stanley Cup. Today in the Times, Nate Silver takes a stab at the most jingoistically painful futility in professional sports....
NASCAR Driver Found With Seven Stolen Vehicles Belonging To Rival
Mike Harmon, driver in NASCAR's Nationwide Series and truck series, might be in a bit of trouble. He was found with five racing trucks and two racing cars, apparently belonging to his former business associate—the same one he allegedly stole a trailer from two weeks ago, leading to an arrest....
Bill Simmons Thinks Memphis Fans Get Tense Because MLK Was Shot There
For many years now, Bill Simmons has positioned himself as a kind of ULTRA fan. He's not simply the voice of the fan anymore. He is more fan than you. He understands fandom in a way that you could not possibly understand. He understands that when fans get loud, things are going well! And when fans ...
He Punches like a Fucking Mule Kick
Here is a good story from "Second Wind: Memoirs of an Opinonated Man," by Bill Russell with the historian Taylor Branch (1979, Random House; currently out-of-print). It’s about Russell’s grandfather and his mule, Kate. Russell’s family was from Monroe, La., and he lived down there until he was about...
Saints Receiver Joe Morgan Busted For Alleged DWI
The Earhart Expressway is a pretty damned busy highway. It's three lanes in either direction, and runs from New Orleans to the suburbs, and sometimes a Saints receiver passes out in his car in the middle of the road on a Saturday night....
Toots Shor Among the Ruins
Another sure shot: Joe Flaherty's 1974 Esquire piece on Toots Shor:...
Sad Dortmund Greeted By Peppy Flash Mob After Champions League Loss
Mere hours after a hard-fought, heartbreaking 2-1 loss in the Champions League final, a dejected Borussia Dortmund trudged to the airport for the miserable flight home. They just wanted to be left alone with their thoughts, and their regrets. That's when the beatboxer piped up....
Rob Ford Got A Football-Themed Cake For His Birthday
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, who has smoked crack cocaine, is celebrating his 44th birthday today. His staff brought him the lovely cake you see above, because crack-smoking Rob Ford still celebrates his birthday like a nine-year-old boy. Maybe he'll get to eat that cake in his race car bed tonight....
ESPN President's Memo: Support The Troops; Also, We're Firing People
Below is a memo from ESPN president John Skipper, sent companywide just before the Memorial Day weekend and forwarded to us by a Bristol tipster. "This is the only communication we've received from upper management this week that mentions the layoffs," our tipster writes. Happy Memorial Day!...
Scary Video From Under The Snapped Camera Cable At The Coca-Cola 600
On lap 121 of Sunday's Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte, a cable supporting an overhead camera snapped and fell across the track. Ten fans were injured, three hospitalized, and the race was red-flagged for nearly a half-hour after several cars were damaged. It could have been much worse, and the eyewitnes...
The Last American Hero
And since we're talking classics, how 'bout Tom Wolfe's 1965 Esquire story on Junior Johnson? ...
The Right Stuff
Over at Bronx Banter, Peter Richmond remembers his father:...
Denny Hamlin's Mid-Race Snack Of Choice Is An Uncrustable
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Robin Van Persie Sent Piers Morgan A Great Gift For Crybabies
Robin Van Persie used to be captain of Piers Morgan's favorite team, Arsenal. He then signed a big deal with rival Manchester United. If for some reason you are tuned in to what Piers Morgan has to say on anything, you know this greatly displeased him. ...
A Wisconsin Festival Claims A Record Bratwurst Because Of Course
The Midwesternest piece of Memorial Day Weekend news has broken, and it is that the self-proclaimed World's Largest Brat Fest has achieved its destiny by grilling and bunning perhaps the world's largest brat....
Trope-Recycling Bill Simmons Has Bill Simmons Syndrome
Bill Simmons this week mused on the fate of Dwight Howard, who appears to be the NBA's equivalent of plutonium: a potential world-beater but perilously radioactive. To characterize the gap between Perceived Dwight Howard and Actual Dwight Howard, the founder of Grantland and ESPN spittling-head did ...
How To Grill Cheeseburgers And Win Your Memorial Day Cookout
So you've got your grand Memorial Day weekend feast all planned, your spread of exotic, expensive victuals purchased and prepped and ready to be grilled and smoked and barbecued and so on. Brined chicken breasts and home-ground-spice-rubbed pork ribs and organic farm-raised fair-trade cockles; a ra...
This Might Be The Worst Double Play Call You'll See
This is not a double play. It would've been, probably, if Texas Rangers first baseman Mitch Moreland caught the ball to end the play. But he didn't catch the ball. Someone else caught the ball....
Old Scouting Report On Mark Grace: "The Brothers Love Him"
Diamond Mines is a fantastic site for baseball wonks, as it allows you to look up old scouting reports on major league players. It's also a gold mine for people who want to marvel at some of the truly odd things that scouts used to include in their reports....