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Homer Bailey No-Hits Giants, Joins Exclusive Club Of Pitchers
Homer Bailey—who threw MLB's most recent no-hitter in September of last season—repeated the feat tonight, retiring the Giants and becoming just the sixth pitcher in history to make his mark on baseball's no-no list consecutively....
This Is Where The Debate Over "Redskins" Went Completely Off The Rails
We've finally come to the end of the crazy line in the Washington Redskins name debate. It's going to be hard to top Walter E. Williams writing about "busybodies and tyrants" for The Oakland Press in a column so nuts you really want it to be satire. ...
The Success of Failure
In Joe DePaolo's fine profile of talk radio host Mike Francesa, published earlier this year at SB Nation Longform, this struck me:...
The Time Has Come For Dan Snyder To Change His Name
Times change, people. There once was a day in America when the idea of two gay men openly marrying seemed absurd. There was once a day in America when segregation was the law of the land. But the arc of the moral universe bends toward justice, and today we no longer tolerate evil that in another er...
Redskins' Indian-Chief Defender: Not A Chief, Probably Not Indian
Lately, the Washington Redskins are having a harder time defending the team's name than the rest of the NFC East had defending the read-option last season. One of the more entertaining parts of Redskins owner Dan Snyder's effort has been his ongoing Indians-love-"Redskins" campaign, whereby the team...
Donté Stallworth Loves Gay Marriage, Argues With Twitter
Newly minted Redskins receiver Donté Stallworth has opinions on things! He was not a fan of the flu vaccine. But he is a huge fan of today's Supreme Court rulings that struck down the Defense of Marriage Act and killed Prop 8 in California. He took to Twitter to celebrate, and more than held his own...
Victor Martinez Makes No-Look, Backwards Flip To Record Out At First
Victor Martinez, making just his fourth start at first base this year, made a nice-enough play diving to his left to prevent an extra-base hit to the speedy Jacoby Ellsbury in the sixth inning of a close game against the Red Sox....
Read Roger Goodell's Letter To Congress Defending The Redskins Name
Last month, 10 members of Congress publicly called on Roger Goodell to change the name of the Redskins. Now, Goodell responds, in a letter calling the nickname "a unifying force that stands for strength, courage, pride and respect." ...
14 Innings And A Bench-Clearing Scrap: Just A Typical Red Sox-Rays Game
A nationally televised game that saw Tampa Bay overcome a 6-0 deficit, Boston take—and blow—a two-run 10th-inning lead, and a final out that wouldn't come until after midnight, and still all anyone could talk about was John Lackey plunking Matt Joyce. Here's a bold statement: Boston-Tampa Bay is the...
Fred Smoot Has A New Disgusting Term To Explain The Love Boat
Former NFL cornerback Fred Smoot, late of double-donging two hookers while on the Vikings sex boat, is trying to make it big in the D.C. sports-talk-radio biz now, and accordingly he's spilling everywhere he can. Spilling his stories. Jeez. You're gross. He did an ask me anything on Reddit today, wi...
Pacman Jones Tweets News Of His Latest Arrest—For Hitting A Woman
Has it really been a year-and-a-half since Pacman Jones was last sentenced by a judge for something or other? It's been so long that Pacman no longer wants to be called Pacman, never mind that Pacman is still the name that's on Pacman's Twitter handle. But look! Pacman's Twitter has news of an arres...
The Moving Finger Writes: Red Smith On Reggie Jackson's Historic Homers
Red Smith is the most respected sports columnist we've ever had. In his prime, Jimmy Cannon, Smith's friendly rival, was certainly as well-known. Cannon, the Voice of New York, was an emotional, colloquial writer whose reputation, unfortunately, has faded. But Smith endures. What is it about his wri...
Counterpoint: Baseball Games Are Exactly As Long As They Should Be
The most striking thing about the Baseball Games Are Too Long argument is the amount of time spent thinking about it. ...
David Ortiz Hit A Walk-Off Home Run That's Famous As Fuck
Big Papi homered off Michael Kirkman in the bottom of the ninth. It was his 11th career walk-off home run, and first in four years, and it kept the Sawx 1.5 games ahead in ... ah, who cares? Check out his T-shirt!...
A Little Greedy, And Exactly Right: Red Smith On Secretariat
Red Smith is the most respected sports columnist we've ever had. In his prime, Jimmy Cannon, Smith's friendly rival, was certainly as well-known. Cannon, the Voice of New York, was an emotional, colloquial writer whose reputation, unfortunately, has faded. But Smith endures. What is it about his wri...
On the Slant
A few weeks ago I had a phone conversation with Red Smith's biographer, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, Ira Berkow. He told me:...