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Today In Unfortunate Newspaper Column Placement
Catherine Cleary is a restaurant columnist for the Irish Times. This is neither a classified ad nor an invitation....
Football Coach Arrested For Vandalizing Own School To Inspire Team
The football rivalry between Marion County and South Pittsburg, both outside of Chattanooga, is a fierce one. But two weeks ago, the morning before the big game, Marion County discovered its fieldhouse covered in vulgar graffiti insulting the school, and including South Pittsburg's logo. But a polic...
How Branch Rickey Invented Modern Baseball
Excerpted from Dollar Sign on the Muscle, named by Sports Illustrated one of the top 100 sports books of all time; postscript by Sam Miller. You can read more about the new Baseball Prospectus edition of the book here, or buy it in paperback or as an e-book....
Hockey Player Assaults Opponent By Swinging A Stick At His Head
The YouTube uploader says this took place during a world invitational tournament held earlier this month in Chicago. At the 13-second mark, keep your eye on the top of the screen, where a player for the Toledo Cherokee reacts to getting elbowed to the ground by a player for the San Diego Jr. Gulls ...
T-Wolves' "Ladies Night" Again Features Free Season One DVD Of <em>Girls</em>
Are you a woman who is also a fan of the Minnesota Timberwolves? Are you also unable to afford HBO and/or really bad at keeping up with popular culture? Then you need to get yourself to one of the Minnesota Timberwolves' "Ladies Night Out" games this year....
How <em>The Best American Sportswriting</em> Happens
A lot of people want to buy me a drink....
Sacred Heart WR Fumbles, Forces And Returns Fumble For TD On One Play
Sacred Heart wide receiver Moses Webb caught a pass and fumbled it after being hit. A Monmouth defender recovered the fumble and started running the other way. The defender fumbled, and Webb, who had caught up to him, recovered that fumble and ran it back for a touchdown....
Missouri Southern State Football Coach Shot, Killed At Movie Theater
Derek Moore, a first-year offensive line coach for Missouri Southern State, was shot and killed Friday night outside of a movie theater in Joplin, Mo. He was 37 years old....
The Greatest Slugger Never To Play In The Major Leagues
As David Ortiz adds to his legend this week—the version that omits any mention of PEDs, of course—let's take a moment to appreciate John Schulian's 2000 SI profile of Josh Gibson:...
The Art of Storytelling
Check out the Something to Write Home About series over at the beautiful site, Pictory Mag....
Which TV Market's Getting Screwed Today? Your Week 8 NFL Viewing Maps
A guide to the best and worst of the NFL slate (and to which fans are stuck with the most of worst). Maps via 506sports.com....
The Late Show
If you’ve never seen “The Late Show,” well, you should....
Ted Cruz Hates Avocados, Is Incapable Of Non-Stupid Opinions
I mean ho-leeeeee shit. This is at least—at least!—2.7 times worse than the time he orchestrated the shutdown of the federal government for no goddamn reason....
That Time Mike Matheny Took A Fastball To The Face And Barely Flinched
The World Series begins tonight, which means it's as good an occasion as any to look back at one of the more memorable moments from Cardinals manager Mike Matheny's playing career: The night a 90-something-mph fastball hit him square in the face and he barely reacted....
Becoming Mr. October
Reggie's got a new memoir out, co-written by the most-talented Kevin Baker. Well, it is October, after all. Here's Roger Angell on Buck Tater:...
Lahr and Buscemi: Who You Callin' Funny-Lookin?
John Lahr's first book was a biography of his father, Bert Lahr, Notes on a Cowardly Lion....
My Life As A Young Thug By Mike Tyson
In the latest issue of New York Magazine, Mike Tyson looks back:...
Blind Alley
Friday, what better time for a good bowling story? This one, by the late Jeff Felshman, is a keeper, a funny and understated gem:...
Out My Window
Katerina Cizek’s Out My Window project is seriously dope. ...