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John Calipari's Deal Is Bad, Even For Players Whose Knees Survive It Last week, I wrote about the ways that both pro- and anti-NCAA camps tend to miss the mark when talking about University of Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari. He deserves less criticism for breaking NCAA rules and more for profiting from them, because even his “Players First” arrangement forc...

Alex Poythress Doesn't Prove That John Calipari Is The DevilOriginally published on Slate....

New Yorkers: If you dig smart people talking sports, you should check out Hang Up and Listen LIVE! on October 8th in Brooklyn. Your regular podcasters Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca will be there, along with special guest Roy Blount, Jr. You can find more information here....

Showing Attractive Fans On TV? That Was One Man's Idea

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Map: The United States Of America, By Meat

This is fun. L.V. Anderson and Jess Fink of Slate started with a simple observation—Americans consume more meat per person than any other nation on earth (except Luxembourg, those gluttons), yet most of our official state foods are not meat—and have created a map that assigns a unique meat or meat-...

Get It Right, People: Bobby Knight Didn't Throw A <em>Folding</em> Chair

Despite being one of the most infamous coaching meltdowns in history and either the first or second thing that comes to mind when you hear the name Bobby Knight, there is one crucial aspect of The Incident With The Chair that is consistently misremembered: the type of chair he chucked across the flo...

Slate had the great idea to overlay the colorful calls of figure skating announcer Scott Hamilton over all kinds of other sports. Jim Ross now has a competitor. [Slate]...

Why Do Coaches Always Beat Up On The Little Sisters Of The Poor?

The Little Sisters of the Poor are in the news again, but surprisingly not as a sports metaphor for a patsy opponent. But now's as good a time as any to wonder: Where did this ubiquitous metaphor come from?...