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Adrian Peterson's Son Is The Cutest Sports Toddler
Good god. This picture could not be any more adorable....
White Lines: I'm Not Worth A Damn
How cocaine ruined Don Reese's career (John Underwood, SI, 1982):...
Racing's Angriest Young Man And The Greatest Hits of 1961
Though it's not easy to navigate I think it's worth your time to cruise on over to the Internet Archives to read the full text of The Best Sports Stories 1961. It includes pieces by Stanley Woodward, W.C. Heinz, Myron Cope, Red Smith, Blackie Sherrod, Dick Schaap, Tex Maule, Dick Young, Roger Kahn, ...
The Best Of The Best
Glenn Stout, series editor of The Best American Sports Writing has posted the table of contents for this year's edition on his website. The book, edited by J.R. Moehringer, won't be out for a few months, but I want to take this moment to celebrate Moehringer's selections....
High-Powered Sprint Boat Careens Off Course, Crashes Into Spectators
Sprint Boat racing is a niche sport in which 1,000-horsepower engines propel tiny boats around what looks like a flooded go-kart track. If this sounds like a recipe for disaster, you're right—as spectators at Oregon's "Field Of Dreams" learned yesterday....
The Shrine of Eternals
Nice piece on the Baseball Reliquary by David Davis over at Sports on Earth:...
This Six-Year-Old Apparently Hit Five Home Runs In Five At-Bats
According to this video's introduction, Spencer Conn is six years old and hit five home runs in five consecutive at-bats, all on the first pitches he saw....
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Browns Guard Ryan Miller Carted Off Field, Taken To Hospital [UPDATES]
During training camp today, an unidentified Browns player was taken off the field in an ambulance....
Texas Rangers Reliever Attacked And “Sucker-Punched” In Cleveland
Rangers relief pitcher Tanner Scheppers was attacked Thursday night while getting food on a street in Cleveland....
Is This Calvin Johnson Catch Impressive?
During one-on-one drills in today's Detroit Lions training camp, Calvin Johnson faced off against cornerback Chris Houston. The play called was a back-shoulder fade, and Megatron made Houston look stupid....
Usain Bolt Makes His Entrance On A Rocket, Because He Can
Usain Bolt took a lap around the track on Friday at the Anniversary Games on a rocket. Yeah, a rocket. That thing belongs to Bowser in Mario Kart....
Hey, Look! Francisco Liriano Is Really Good Again
Where the hell has this Francisco Liriano been? You know, the dependable middle-of-the-rotation guy playing for the Pittsburgh Pirates who's currently holding down a 2.23 ERA? How'd this happen?...
Phil Mickelson Takes A Statistical Approach To His Short Game
British Open winner Phil Mickelson has remained relatively quiet in the media since his win last week, but he popped up on the radar after requesting to be featured on the podcast Science Friday. What'd he talk about? Math, science and golf!...
What I Learned From A Year Of Watching <em>SportsCenter</em>
Thirty-three years and more than 50,000 episodes on, SportsCenter is less a television show or a convenient way to catch up on the day in sports than a great mechanical contraption gone awry, its parts moving independently not just of one another but of any obvious directing intelligence. ...
South Of The Border
Earlier this year, pals Eric Nusbaum and Craig Robinson were on hand for the Caribbean Series championship in Mexico. They’ve got a five-part series over at Sports on Earth....
Skimboard High-Five Attempt Ends With Bro Splatting On Boat
I love everything about this video. The narration, the buildup, the split-second resolution. The fact that there was absolutely no way this could have worked, yet the bros seem shocked that it ended poorly....
Chris Bosh's Baby Has A Much Better Life Than You Do
Have you ever seen a baby chill so hard? No, you have never seen a baby chill so hard....
