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The NCAA Has Wagged Its Finger At Oregon And Chip Kelly
The NCAA's committee on infractions has spoken: Because of payments made to a recruiting service run by a guy who steered a prospect toward the Oregon football program, the Ducks have been hit with three years' probation and other penalties, most of which they had already imposed on themselves. Thus...
Smells Like Teen Spirit
This here's a good one, Donna Tartt's 1993 Harper's story: "Basketball Season, or Team Spirit: Memories of Being a Freshman Cheerleader for the Basketball Team":...
Who You Calling a Red-Ass?
From his classic memoir, A False Spring, here's Pat Jordan on his minor league encounter with Joe Torre....
Getting Closer to God in a Tight Situation
It's Wimbeldon time again, a good moment to revisit David Foster Wallace's celebrated 2006 New York Times story on Roger Federer:...
Big Trouble with a Capital "T"
From Lenny Shecter, dig this 1963 Sports Illustrated piece on Rubin "Hurricane" Carter:...
Bruins Fan Gets His Office Turned Into A Blackhawks Shrine
This picture comes to us from reader Noah, who had it sent to him by his father this morning. "Architects have fun, too," he explains. They sure do, Noah. They sure do....
Suitors of Spring
Nice piece by Jane Gross—who we've heard from round these parts before—in the Times:...
Do Sleepy Hitters Really Lose Plate Discipline During The MLB Season?
Originally published in Baseball Prospectus....
ESPN Cutting Off Bill Simmons Calls For A <em>Sopranos</em> Parody
Last night's curious incident in which Bill Simmons's thoughts on "The Decision" went off into the ether led us (and many commenters) to draw comparisons to the final episode of The Sopranos....
"Nautical Negro"
Over at WNYC here's Stephen Nessen on the black surfing scene that's taking over in the Rockaways:...
Brazil's Protestors Should Be Angry At FIFA, Too
Originally published on Bloomberg View...
Gale-Force Kayaking
From the Atlantic, here's a compelling 1995 story by Andrew Todhunter:...
Do You Believe in Miracles?
Dig this: Richard Price on Bear Bryant (from Playboy, 1979):...
Now Mike Florio Is Getting In Twitter Fights With NFL Mascots
Resident NBC/ProFootballTalk moron and supposed NFL maven Mike Florio took his lifelong itinerary of bad decisions to a new level last night, getting into Twitter beef with Jaguars mascot Jaxson de Ville. ...
The Queen is Hyped Up
Check out Stephen Rodrick's profile of Serena Williams in the new issue of Rolling Stone:...
Entourage
From SI back in April of 1988, here's Gary Smith: "Ali and His Entourage":...
Female Sprinting Star Suspended For Failed Drug Test
Jamaica's Veronica Campbell-Brown, winner of the 2004 and 2008 Olympics women's 200m and reigning world champion, reportedly failed a drug test after testing positive for a banned diuretic used as a masking agent....
Who Shot Battling Siki? The Life And Murder Of A Prizefighter
Originally published in 1949 in The New Yorker and anthologized in The World of John Lardner. Reprinted with permission of Susan Lardner. For more on John Lardner, read Alex Belth's introduction to a new Lardner collection, Southwest Passage....
The Real McCoy
Another classic from Lardner, "The Life and Loves of the Real McCoy":...