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MacArthur Genius Grants: Not Worth ItBefore you ask, the answer is no—I have never won a MacArthur Genius Grant. Nor did I win this year. And thank god for that....

How Two Online Baseball Writers Won An Indie-League Draft By Finding Talent And Stealing ItThe following is excerpted from The Only Rule Is It Has To Work, the wonderful new book in which two sabermetrically-inclined baseball writers—Sam Miller of Baseball Prospectus and Ben Lindbergh of ESPN—recount their experience running baseball operations for the Sonoma Stompers, an actual, real-lif...

Some kid is doing a study on fantasy football for a grad paper. We encourage academia and all the gravity bongs that come with it, so help a tweed jacketer out. [Kent State University]...