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The Best And Worst Beat Reporters In Baseball: AL East
Rally 'round the flag, boys—we've got one last edition of the Beat-Off. For the last week, you've helped us identify the best and worst beat reporters for 25 teams in Major League Baseball. Now we conclude with the AL East....
Roundup: Your Best A-Rod Out On The Town Photoshop Entries
We asked, and once again you delivered. What follows is the best of the photoshop contest submissions we got for this image of A-Rod hitting the town in Florida last week. You jerks never manage to disappoint....
There's Something About Steve
We could all use a laugh. So read Pete Dexter's 1984 column on Steve Garvey:...
Can I Have Your Autograph?
Ray Robinson? Terrific guy—great guy, in fact. ...
Mind The Gap
From the New York Magazine archives, here’s the late, great Vic Ziegel on Ali-Spinks II:...
Coach Ted Lasso Behind-The-Scenes Video Almost As Good As Original
You loved NBC's Coach Ted Lasso video, in which an American football coach learns all about the sport of association football. Here's a bit behind the making of it, as captured in London by Spurs TV. We're not sure if Jason Sudeikis is ever not in character—or if he even has a character at all othe...
Dwyane Wade And His Sons Are Trayvon Martin
Dwyane Wade, who Sharpied "RIP Trayvon Martin" and "We Want Justice" on his shoes in the wake of Martin's 2012 shooting, is still taking up for the slain Florida teen, this time on one September cover of EBONY....
Ex-Giants Lineman Allegedly Assaults Wife With Her Own Pocketbook
Luke Petitgout, a 1999 first-round draft pick who spent all but one of his nine NFL seasons with the Giants, turned himself in to New York City police today after his wife accused him of smacking her with her pocketbook and shoving her out of a car....
The Best And Worst Beat Reporters In Baseball: AL Central
The Beat-Off, our crowd-sourced effort to determine the very best and the very worst reporters in Major League Baseball, is winding down. We've covered the National League and the AL West. Today, the AL Central. ...
ESPN Fight: Hugh Douglas Called Colleague Michael Smith "Uncle Tom"
Last Thursday, at the National Association of Black Journalists Convention and Career Fair, Hugh Douglas, the former Eagle and current NFL analyst for ESPN, was very drunk. A day later he would be both drunk and combative, and, as The Big Lead first reported, he and an ESPN colleague would nearly c...
Summertime
Charles Simic writes about summertime over at the New York Review of Books:...
Throw It Down, Big Man
Check out Pat Jordan's 2001 New York Times profile of Bill Walton:...
Hand Jive
You'll like this—Peter Duffy's 2009 New York magazine story on handball:...
Fan Promises To Run On Field In Exchange For Retweets, Chickens Out
Tonight, while the baseball world watched the return of Alex Rodriguez, another young baseball fan used Twitter to gain a whole lot of attention and retweets in exchange for promising everyone the schadenfreude of watching him get obliterated by stadium security. He began the night with a simple pro...
Lady Goes For A Stroll Through The Kauffman Stadium Fountain
This lady scaled some wet, narrow terrain and found her way into the fountain area in Kauffman Stadium Monday night. Was she drunk? Hard to tell. She might have been hot and wanted to cool off. Maybe she just wanted to drink her teal blue (possibly alcoholic) drink in the comfort of wet denim. It's ...
Here's Chicago Booing A-Rod In His First At-Bat
We had to wait until the second inning thanks to some iffy baserunning and the human element, but Alex Rodriguez made his season debut moments ago in Chicago and it was, as expected, a shitshow. He was lustily booed in his first at-bat since Major League Baseball suspended him for 211 games....
ESPN: Japanese Little Leaguer's Favorite Singer Is "Wandai Wrection"
It's not quite Captain Sum Ting Wong, but the spelling you are looking for is "One Direction."...
Alex Rodriguez Speaks, Attempts To Mimic Human Emotion
In a statement accompanied by watery eyes and dramatic pauses, Alex Rodriguez addressed the media ahead of his first game since last October—and for the first time since MLB announced a 211-game suspension for his role in the Biogenesis scandal....
The Swimmer
A classic—John Cheever's short story, "The Swimmer":...
Remember When Joe Namath Was Accused Of Beating Up A Reporter?
This one's dedicated to one SEC quarterback under fire for his hard-partying ways, and one Jets QB struggling to balance his on-field and off-the-field activities: It could be so much worse. It could be like Joe Namath, who 46 years (and one day) ago broke training camp curfew, got hammered at a bar...