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We Need To Talk About <em>True Detective</em> (No, We Don't)
If you want news about the second season of True Detective, a gritty HBO anthology series that just wrapped its wildly popular first season in March, you don't have to look very hard....
Morality Checked
"The tendency among spoilsport sportswriters is to make it all so so elegiac and bittersweet—to like us to see our own lives (easier for men, of course) in these [minor leaguers'] prospects; to make it all a gooey-nostalgic allegory for trying and failing while still young, an emblem for rum life li...
Richard Ford: Stop Blaming The Game
In 1993, the acclaimed novelist Richard Ford wrote a piece for the New York Times called "Stop Blaming Baseball."...
Aaron Dana's Sports Illustrated
It's a Long Season is a killer tumblr site for you baseball junkies. This morning I saw a post featuring Aaron Dana's work. ...
Who Is John Allen, The Baseball Reporter Revealed As A Twitter Hoax?
Winter is baseball's silly season, filled with silly trade and free agent rumors even from reputable sources. But sometimes those sources are not-so-reputable. Sometimes they don't even exist. Like KCNBC's own John Allen....
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 ...
Stephen Vogt Is Your Newest Unlikely Postseason Hero
The most compelling bat of last night's Tigers-A's game came in the bottom of the seventh. Oakland had runners on second and third with two outs, and backup catcher Stephen Vogt did his best to make Justin Verlander look mortal....
30 Paragraphs About 30 Teams: A Thinking Fan's Guide To The NHL Season
The following is excerpted from the team chapters of the excellent Hockey Prospectus 2013-2014, by the authors of Hockey Prospectus. Buy the PDF for $14.95 or order the printed book from Amazon....
Cobra '79 T-Shirt
Via It's a Long Season check out this boss T-shirt by Chris Brennan. ...
I Kind Of Like Tim Tebow Now
The hatred of Tim Tebow and the hatred of the attention lavished on Tim Tebow are wrongly, if understandably, mixed. In a Baylessless vacuum, in a place where the word "intangibles" isn't used by pundits for the purposes of invidious distinction, Tebow would probably be an OK dude, and a lot of fun...
32 Paragraphs About 32 Teams: A Thinking Fan's Guide To The NFL Season
The following is excerpted from the team chapters of the always-excellent Football Outsiders Almanac. Buy the PDF for $12.50 or order the printed book from Amazon....
It's Still Preseason For NFL.Com, Too
As of this posting, this video of Eagles-Jaguars highlights from Saturday night is still available on NFL.com. The anchor flubbed a line discussing Chip Kelly's decision to name Michael Vick as the starter and then clammed up. No big deal, he tried again and got it right. Except, for some reason, t...
Antonio Smith Tore Off Richie Incognito's Helmet, Swung It At His Head
During Saturday night's Texans-Dolphins preseason game, a one-on-one between defensive end Antonio Smith and offensive guard Richie Incognito escalated when Smith ripped Incognito's helmet off of him and swung it at his head, just missing the target....
There Is So Much Going On In This LeGarrette Blount Run
LeGarrette Blount's 51-yard TD run against the Eagles last night is impressive enough to share on its own, but a couple things happen away from the play that make this clip funny....
The Redskins Celebrate A Touchdown Like Weirdos
Here's how Redskins quarterback Kirk Cousins and tackle Tom Compton decided to celebrate their team's first touchdown of the preseason. Hurray for football and friendship!...
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":...
Florida Panthers Season Tickets Now Start At $7 A Game
A completely acceptable first reaction to this Panthers ticket plan is rage. Rage that you're in one of those hockey markets where all games are sold out, season-ticket waiting lists stretch for years, and going the scalper route can cost about as much as an HDTV, while down in South Florida, they c...
JaVale McGee Filmed Himself Giving A Homeless Person $100
JaVale McGee: still the best....
It Looks Like The Offseason Is Driving Russell Westbrook A Little Crazy
Pretty cool Vine, Russell Westbrook:...