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Hot Rods In HDR
From the cool design site, Abduzeedo, dig this post on Hot Rods in HDR. ...
The Liter Bowl: The First NCAA Football Game To Use The Metric System
On September 17, 1977, Carleton College and St. Olaf College played the Liter Bowl, the first NCAA-sanctioned game to use metric measurements, and probably the dorkiest piece of football ever put together....
Cool Chart: A's Skipper Bob Melvin Is The King Of Platoons
Over at Sports on Earth, Jack Moore created this great graphic to demonstrate just how crazy A's manager Bob Melvin is about platoons. The green rectangles represent consecutive games in which the same hitter held the same spot in the batting order, with blanks showing a change from the previous gam...
Perfectly Timed Sports TV Graphics Are A Gift From God
We spend so much time here making fun of chyron mistakes that we sometimes forget to give thanks for the serendipitous moments where on-screen graphics and live action work in hilarious concert. ...
Here's A New Stat To Figure Out The Best Scorers In The NBA
Field goal percentage is misleading. We know that, because if it wasn't, Tyson Chandler wouldn't threaten to break 70 percent every year, and Reggie Evans would produce a literal black hole in each of his box scores, which would consume their immediate surroundings and we'd have no idea what happene...
A Tribute to Bill Eppridge
Dig SI's tribute to the late Bill Eppridge. ...
Frank Sinatra Has a Cold: Annotated
Over at the Neiman Storyboard, Elon Green talks to Gay Talese about Talese's classic Esquire story, "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold." ...
SJSU Puts Scary Spartans On Basketball Court
The San Jose State Spartans are the latest college basketball team to get in on the over-the-top court design trend. FIU's beach towel is pretty cool, but not as cool as five angry Spartan warriors who are poised to stab you in the face!...
Hat Tricks Can Be Hazardous For Ice Girls
Thanks to @FiveForBoarding for this video of a Penguins ice girl cleaning up hats after Jussi Jokinen's third goal. Who will clean up the ice girl?...
The Mourning Anchor
What is it the poet said? Like muffled drums, our hearts beat a funeral march to the grave. And so it is that Bryant Gumbel, a man who is nothing if not prepared, keeps a list of his pallbearers....
Look At These Bleak Photos Of North Korea's First Ski Resort
The Masik Pass ski resort is North Korea's latest white elephant. The project took 10 months of labor and will officially open this Thursday for the public, even though most of the citizens can't afford to visit it....
Reminder: <em>League Of Denial</em> Is Tonight. Here's A Clip You Haven't Seen
Here's a clip from the Frontline documentary League of Denial. It premieres tonight at 9 p.m. tonight on ES—oh right, on PBS....
Reporter Alan Schwarz Changed The NFL; He's Here To Talk Concussions
We're joined now by New York Times enterprise reporter Alan Schwarz. Best known for his groundbreaking work on football's concussion crisis, he also wrote a terrific history of the role of statistics in baseball, and is a regular recipient of warm holiday greetings from Roger Goodell. Have questions...
Hip Hop Pioneers: Two Old White Guys
My man Steinski, and his partner, Double Dee....
Report: Injured Julio Jones Could Be Done For The Season
The Falcons' season just keeps going from bad to worse. Last night's loss to the Jets at home dropped them to 1-4, and now there's this:...
Sir Bam Bam
There are 23 large iron lamps affixed to the ceiling. The tints of neon light they throw down into the indoor batting cage, a concrete room tucked deep into the guts of Yankee Stadium, vary according to when they were last smashed out by errant balls and replaced. Under these lights, largely out of ...
Chart: How Does Your NFL Team Stack Up On Offense and Defense?
Over at Advanced NFL Stats, Brian Burke has put together a great visualization plotting the offensive and defensive performance of the league's 32 teams. It's nothing too complicated—basically a NYMag Approval Matrix for football—but it reveals a lot about the state of the NFL through Week 5....
The Olympic Torch Keeps Going Out
The Olympic torch relay began in Moscow two days ago, and the flame has already been extinguished four times. It's a slight embarrassment for the host nation, but a fairly large one for the factory that made the torches, and also happens to make ballistic missiles....
The Champ And The Chump: The Meaning Of Liston-Clay I
Originally published on March 7, 1964, in The New Republic. Reprinted here with the permission of the author's family....