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The Best And Worst Beat Reporters In Baseball: NL West
Welcome back to Deadspin's Beat-Off, a crowd-sourced effort to determine the best and worst reporters covering Major League Baseball teams. This week, we've covered the NL East and NL Central. Today we'll finish off the senior circuit with the NL West....
The Best And Worst Beat Reporters In Baseball: NL Central
This week, we're posing a question: Who's the best (and worst) beat reporter for each MLB team? Yesterday, we tackled the NL East, and today we move to the NL Central. We've organized the threads by team. Jump in the discussion down below and tell us why your favorite/least-favorite reporter is the ...
In The Back By A ‘93 Pickup, There's Gonna Be A Dead Body
Jeremy Markovich delivers a fine story on the death of Dick Trickle at SB Nation Longform:...
The Best And Worst Beat Reporters In Baseball: NL East
With the trading deadline a day away and with the MLB season sliding headlong into third, it's time we all start paying attention to baseball again. Where to turn? For the next week, we'll be posing the question to you: Who's the best beat reporter for each MLB team? ...
Why Your Supermarket Only Sells 5 Kinds Of Apples
Over at Mother Jones, here's Rowan Jacobsen's story about one man's quest to bring hundreds more back: ...
Racing's Angriest Young Man And The Greatest Hits of 1961
Though it's not easy to navigate I think it's worth your time to cruise on over to the Internet Archives to read the full text of The Best Sports Stories 1961. It includes pieces by Stanley Woodward, W.C. Heinz, Myron Cope, Red Smith, Blackie Sherrod, Dick Schaap, Tex Maule, Dick Young, Roger Kahn, ...
Shin-Soo Choo Twice Falls For Dodgers’ Fakery On One Play
It's not every day that a single to center with a man on first results in that baserunner being thrown out at second. But during a hit and run from last night, the Reds' Shin-Soo Choo has no idea where the ball is. Why? Because the Dodgers' Skip Schumaker and Hanley Ramirez completely fool the shit ...
Prosecutors: This Is Aaron Hernandez With The Murder Weapon
Attleboro District Court unsealed more documents today in the murder case against Aaron Hernandez. The most striking: a series of images from Hernandez's home surveillance system on the night of the murder, showing what prosecutors believe to be the gun that killed Odin Lloyd, a gun that has not yet...
I Can't Stop Looking At This Picture Of Tyson Chandler's Tiny-Ass Legs
Look at those gams! How does he not fall over? ...
The Talented Mr. Tynan
"Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding."...
The Fabulous Moolah
This is fun. Pat Jordan's 1974 SI piece on the Fabulous Moolah: "Lady with a Lock on Life":...
<em>The Conjuring</em> Is Old-School Terrifying
The Conjuring didn't literally scare the piss out of me, but it was close, and all told, there might have been a dribble or two....
The Good News Is There's Not A Birkenstock In Sight
Good piece by Robert Weintraub on Ultimate over at SB Nation Longform:...
The ESPYs Are A Colossal Waste Of Money
It's a nearly annual question in Bristol: Can we finally cancel the ESPYs?...
Only The Ball Was Brown
From his website, here's David Kamp's 2006 GQ story on Early Lloyd:...
The Movie Love Bookshelf
Here’s a good read for the movie nerd in your life. Thomson is a lot of fun to read even when you don’t agree with him....
Giant Robots And Giant Aliens. <em>Pacific Rim</em>, Reviewed.
1. Lord help me, I couldn't have been happier coming out of Pacific Rim. It's not a great movie—it's just barely a good one—but it is a damned relief. This is not a sour, darkened, lumbering, origin-story-spinning blockbuster complete with plodding backstory and a faux antihero at its center. It is...
It's What You Do With The Gift That Counts
There was a good story by John Le Carre in theNew Yorker earlier this year (subscription required) about the making of his novel The Spy Who Came in From the Cold. The piece centered on the tense relationship between the film’s director, Martin Ritt, a left-wing Jew who’d been blacklisted, and its s...
Justin Bieber And The Stanley Cup, Just A Couple Of Swaggy Bros
Blackhawks marketing director Peter Hassen tweeted out this photo of the Biebs, in Chicago to play the United Center, and the Stanley Cup. You may commence being pissed off....