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Death Of A Playmate
The good people over at Longform present Teresa Carptenter's 1980 Village Voice profile, "Death of a Playmate." First time it's appeared online:...
Phillip Seymour Hoffman
Tom Junod remembers Phillip Seymour Hoffman:...
Ian Rapoport Tries To High-Five NFL Fan, Hits Him In The Face Instead
Andrew Siciliano told fellow NFL Network employee Ian Rapoport to turn around and high-five some of the fans gathered behind him in Manhattan. Rapoport did his best, but one fan got the brunt of his poor execution....
Gregg Popovich Doesn't Have Time For This Shit
Gregg Popovich's contractually obligated in-game interviews deserve their own wing at the Smithsonian. Last night's edition of Talkin' Hoops With Pop was especially enlightening....
Pete Seeger Talks Baseball
I found this post over at Hardball Talk—the late Pete Seeger talking baseball. ...
Wilt Spins
From Up North Trips comes this cool photograph of Wilt Chamberlain. Wonder what record he's playing?...
181 Dog Breeds On One <em>Very</em> Good Poster
New from Pop Chart Lab, the Diagrams of Dogs poster classifies 181 dog breeds by types and various sub-types. All your old favorites are on there, plus at least a few you probably haven't heard of before. (Schipperkes! Holy shit, schipperkes.)...
Exploitation Was Duke Ellington's True Genius
Last month, Adam Gopnik wrote an absorbing review of Terry Teachout's new Duke Ellington biography in the New Yorker. It's only available to subscribers but I wanted to share this part:...
NaVorro Bowman Had Popcorn Spilled On Him As He Was Carted Off
When NaVorro Bowman was carted off with a torn ACL, NFL.com's Gregg Rosenthal tweeted that "Seahawks fans threw food at "Bowman". That sounded very, very bad, especially for a fan base that loves to self-proclaim itself the best in football. But here's the footage, and it's...probably just one jerk?...
An Oral History of Kurtis Blows' "Basketball"
Dumb fun from SB Nation. ...
Nashville
Here's a long, thoughtful, and engaging essay about "Nashville" by Ray Sawhill (Salon, June 27, 2000):...
The History Of How We Follow Baseball
The history of how we follow baseball. ...
Hoop Dreams 20 Years Later
Head on over to The Dissolve and check out their oral history on Hoop Dreams. ...
America, The Beautiful
Dig these beautiful photographs by William Albert Allard....