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Bill Murray, The Sports Fan
Since we're talking Chicago this week, it's a good time to revisit Peter Richmond's story about hanging with Bill Murray that we reprinted earlier this year....
Calvin Johnson Is The Last Thing A Cornerback Sees
Here are a couple great photos of Calvin Johnson reflected in cornerback Patrick Peterson's visor. So cool. ...
Has Any Coach Ever Done Less With More Than Lane Kiffin?
Watch enough football for long enough, and eventually you'll see everything. I believe this: In this calendar year alone we've seen a one-point safety, a Heisman finalist cop to having an imaginary girlfriend, and a 300-pound left tackle score on a hook-and-lateral, among other improbable feats. And...
Pete Carroll, 9/11 Conspiracy Theorist
Last spring, the Seahawks coach sat down with the army's former vice chief of staff. Carroll wanted to know whether the attack on the Pentagon had really happened. Even after the four-star general told him many of his colleagues had been killed, Carroll was still "skeptical."...
Why Do Tennis Players Say "Come On!" So Much?
On Tuesday, in front of a small crowd at Arthur Ashe Stadium, the inconsistent Serbian Ana Ivanoivc had an early lead on Victoria Azarenka in the fourth round at the U.S. Open. At the end of a 14-shot rally late in the first set, Ivanovic slapped a weak forehand into the net. ...
Keith Olbermann Annihilates Prisco Column
For close to eight minutes Olbermann does to Pete Prisco what Prisco does on the john and calls a column. ...
Moron Columnist Completely Misunderstands NFL Concussion Lawsuit
CBS Sports football columnist Pete Prisco has some thoughts about the NFL's concussion settlement. He compiled those thoughts, which are incredibly stupid, into an incredibly stupid column. This is how it begins:...
Deep Cover
That's what J.R. Moehringer went when he wrote this story for the L.A. Times magazine on Pete Carroll, who was still coaching college football at the time. It's a self-aware piece but still intriguing: ...
Up The Stairs With Cus D'Amato
From the Library of America's Story of the Week site, here's a gem—Pete Hamill's tribute to Cus D'Amato:...
Got Beef? Cassavetes Mixes It Up At A Lakers Game
Via cupofcoldsick, dig Peter Falk's story about John Cassavetes at a Lakers game:...
Tough Guys Don't Dance
"To me," Lenny Bruce once said, "a tough guy is a guy who wears a wool suit with no underwear." In his latest profile for the Times Magazine, Pat Jordan writes about Peter Berg and Hollywood tough:...
The Time A Baseball Player Sent A Rat To A Female Sportswriter
This column originally appeared in the Sacramento Bee on June 26, 1986. It is reprinted here with the author's permission. ...
Pete Sack's Beautiful Baseball Paintings
Wonderful pictures by Raleigh's own Pete Sack. ...
Terry Southern on Stanley Kubrick
Everything You Always Wanted To Stop Worrying About The Bomb over at Cinephilia and Beyond including these two notable items by screenwriter Terry Southern:...
The Hit King: Pete Rose In Purgatory
Originally published in the July 1997 issue of GQ. Reprinted here with permission of the author, whose annotations (as told to Alex Belth) appear throughout the story. Illustration by Sam Woolley....
There's Something About Steve
We could all use a laugh. So read Pete Dexter's 1984 column on Steve Garvey:...