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Chad Curtis Convicted Of Sexually Abusing Three Teen Girls
A jury in Barry County, Mich., needed only a few hours of deliberations to find former MLB outfielder Chad Curtis guilty of six counts of criminal sexual conduct against three teenage girls....
Your Team Is Probably Going To Fail: The 2013-14 Premier League
Fuck yeah, man. The Premier League's back tomorrow. This is super duper great, because although various leagues like the German Bundesliga and France's Ligue 1 have already kicked off, ain't nothing like the Premier League. While other leagues annually boast only two or three top sides and naught bu...
The Time A Baseball Player Sent A Rat To A Female Sportswriter
This column originally appeared in the Sacramento Bee on June 26, 1986. It is reprinted here with the author's permission. ...
The Cardinals Welcome The Pirates Back To The Pennant Race
So if this is what being emotionally invested in a pennant race is like, I'm not sure I'm going to make it to Labor Day....
Althea Gibson and Robert Lipsyte's Forgotten Bookmark
My friend Michael Popek owns a used bookstore and runs a site called Forgotten Bookmarks, devoted to the things he finds in old books. The site did so well Michael published a book of the same name. (Check out this Q&A we did in 2011 and this profile of Michael by Shannon Firth.)...
Yeah, But How Does it Read?
Few years ago, Franz Lidz wrote a piece on former SI managing editor Gil Rogin for the New York Observer. ...
There's Something About Steve
We could all use a laugh. So read Pete Dexter's 1984 column on Steve Garvey:...
Get Your Ya Ya's Out
From his classic book, The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones, dig Stanley Booth on the band's gig at MSG in 1969:...
NBC Sports Breaks Away At Exact Wrong Moment
Lesson for NBC, the new holder of the American rights to the Premier League: Don't cut away from soccer during the run of play, like you did here, and miss a goal like the one D.C. United scored. (Transmission error or not, woof.) [NBC Sports]...
Bull Runs Will Soon Be Coming To The United States
Americans who want to entertain the risk of possibly getting gored by a bull won't have to travel all the way to Pamplona, Spain anymore. They can now brush with death in their own country!...
What Might Happen If A Football Coach Coached Soccer
This skit features Jason Sudeikis as Ted Lasso, an American football coach hired to manage Tottenham Hotspur in England. Look at all the differences! It's a dumb premise, but the jokes are legitimately funny. Who knew so many football clubs were just like the Dallas Cowboys?...
Craig Ehlo Arrested On Domestic Violence Charges
Former NBA player Craig Ehlo, best known for being the other guy in "The Shot" by Michael Jordan in 1989, was arrested this morning in Spokane, Wash., on charges related to domestic violence....
White Lines: I'm Not Worth A Damn
How cocaine ruined Don Reese's career (John Underwood, SI, 1982):...
Dick Tweeted From Marcus Jordan's Account. Was It A "#Mistake"?
A representative for Marcus Jordan says this is neither Jordan's tweet nor his dick. Some language in the post has been changed since its original publication....
Dead Letters: “Possibly The Most Worst Read Of All Time”
Subject: Lost direction in life —> lost all...
