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Why Your Children's Television Program Sucks: <em>Jessie</em>
A look at the awful children’s programming you’re forced to endure before you can finally kick the kids out of the TV room to watch sports for eight hours. Image by Jim Cooke....
Are You A Hall Of Fame Voter? We'd Like To Buy Your Vote
It's Hall of Fame season and there's no joy in it, because instead of discussing what matters—Edgar Martinez's elegant swing, Tim Raines careening around third, Mike Mussina flicking a knuckle curve at the edge of the plate—baseball fans will be discussing the voters, who are mainly sour, nasty old ...
How To Win <em>The Price Is Right</em>, Once You Actually Make It Onto The Show
Over at Slate, Ben Blatt has used some game theory to figure out the most strategic way to play all 71 pricing games on The Price Is Right (one game, "Now or Then," can be won 100 percent of the time using his system). Of course, the real challenge is getting a chance to play in the first place. Bac...
"That Moment Before It Starts When You're Scared": Tyson In His Prime
Before he became the main attraction at the freak show, and before he became a kitsch icon, Mike Tyson was the youngest heavyweight champion in history, and a fighter of seemingly limitless promise. There was no way to know it at the time, but when Pete Dexter wrote the story below, he was capturing...
"That Moment Before It Starts When You're Scared": Tyson In His Prime
Originally published in the February 1988 issue of Playboy. Reprinted here by the permission of the author. ...
Malcolm Subban And Scott Stajcer Get Into An AHL Goalie Fight
The Providence Bruins and Hartford Wolf Pack was one extended brawl tonight—the game had 167 total penalty minutes handed out—and although five-foot-eleven Ben Youds facing off against six-foot-five Dylan McIlrath was an entertaining mismatch, the highlight of this particular chaos came when goalie...
Who Wants To Buy Terrelle Pryor's Big Ten Championship Ring?
If you want to own Terrelle Pryor's Big Ten championship ring, it's being auctioned off on eBay right now. You only have to beat the current bid of $16,499! ...
Did Michigan's President Deliver A Drunken Halftime Speech Yesterday?
This would seem to be University of Michigan president Mary Sue Coleman delivering a speech during halftime of yesterday's Wolverines game against Nebraska. She sounds HAMMERED. ...
Which TV Market's Getting Screwed Today? Your Week 10 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....
Let's Celebrate The Least Efficient Scorer in The Premier League
The chart above shows the Premier Leaguers with the highest ratios of goals to shots on goal this season among those who've both scored and averaged two tries per league game. It seems like the sort of thing you could write quite a lot about, but then the more you think about it, the less clear it i...
The Coach Who Exploded
Jonathan Mahler's latest for the Times Magazine is about basketball coach Mike Rice:...
It Takes As Long As It Takes
Something to consider: The 2010 Paris Review Art of Non-Fiction Interview with John McPhee....
The Cobra
Here's Roy Blount, writing in Sports Illustrated about Parker back in the spring of 1979:...
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....
Anna Benson Gets 15 Years' Probation For Storming Kris's Home With Gun
OK, so this time the Kris and Anna Benson saga at last appears to have reached its sad conclusion....
The Old Man And The River
Here's a favorite: Pete Dexter's 1981 Esquire story on Norman Maclean:...
Fail Better
Earlier this year Jonathan Abrams has a piece about two veteran ball players, Jerry Stackhouse and Rasheed Wallace:...
Blind Faith
Today we'll celebrate The Best American Sports Writing 2013. Here's the story that kicks it off, Karen Russell's GQ feature, "The Blind Faith of the One-Eyed Matador":...