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The Black Berets: Red Smith On The Olympic Black Power Salute
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...
Night For Joe Louis: Red Smith On Rocky Marciano's Knockout
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...
Miracle Of Coogan's Bluff: Red Smith On The Shot Heard ‘Round The World
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...
Hold that Tiger
From Stanley Woodward's great memoir, Paper Tiger, here's how the legendary newspaper editor lured Red Smith and Joe Palmer to the New York Herald Tribune:...
Does Jaden Smith, <i>After Earth's</i> Uncompelling Star, Really Want This?
When film critics talk about a star's performance, they usually resort to clichés. The actor always "lights up the screen" or "disappears into a role," and watch out, because "you can't take your eyes off him." The reason why writers (and audiences) recycle those old saws is because they're standar...
"I'm Sure I Have Contributed To False Values": Red Smith, On Writing
Over a three-year period in the early 1970s, Chicago newspaperman Jerome Holtzman interviewed 18 sportswriters. These were men from the previous couple of generations, and they'd devoted their lives to covering sports: Fred Lib, Dan Daniel, John Drebinger, Paul Gallico, Shirley Povich, Jimmy Cannon,...
Will Smith And Son Star In Summer Blockbuster "Horrible At Soccer"
Will Smith and his son are starring in the sequel to Independence Day, where planet Earth must be repopulated by a new race of classic-coming-of-age-via-karate-film-ruining children and innoffensive hip-hop artists. It has generated a lot of early buzz from The Academy....
Busta Bus
Here's a good one—"The Legend of Buster Smith," Adam Langer's 1993 story for the Chicago Reader on a checkers champion:...
Sadistic Media Targeted "Carolina Way," Whinges Ex-UNC Chancellor
Pro tip for anyone trying to make sense of a scandal. If the person at the center of it starts claiming that "the media" are persecuting them, it's usually (though not always) a solid bet that they are patently full of shit. It's the equivalent of shooting the messenger and then claiming self-defens...
Tyron Smith Is Related To A Bunch Of Awful People Who Want His Money
You're Tyron Smith. You're drafted ninth overall, the first offensive lineman taken in 2011. You sign a rookie contract for $12.5 million. All you have to worry about is your family trying to bleed you dry....
New Year's Baby
Check out this 1951 column by Red Smith on Mickey Mantle:...
Craig Sager Photobombs Will Smith And Son
Sager's Gettin' Jiggy Wit It, am I right?...
Stephen A. Smith Will Be On ESPN For Six Consecutive Hours Next Week
Well, ESPN2 technically. But yeah, this is happening on Monday: ...
ESPN Edits Fart Noise Out Of <em>First Take</em> Re-Air
Scandal! ESPN just aired its Best Of First Take clip show, which included a particularly fart-y piece of footage from this morning's edition of First Take, and where there was once a fart, there is a fart no more!...
It Sure Sounds Like Someone Unleashed A Monster Fart On <em>First Take</em>
OK, so we can't say for sure that this was actually a fart, nor can we say for sure who was responsible for it. But we choose to believe that it was a fart, and that it came from Skip Bayless....
Former Jags WR Jimmy Smith Is In Jail For 6 Years, Apparently
Any "where are they now?" story that ends in jail is bad. This one's worse: former Jags great Jimmy Smith has been in jail for nearly two months, and no one noticed until today....