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Jean Borotra, The Most Interesting Man In Tennis, Won 19 Grand Slams And Escaped A Nazi Prison
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Uncle Gene At The Brigade Open: An Unlikely Host For Fight Night At West Point
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What Kind Of Politics Writer Can't Even Use A Sports Metaphor Properly? Most Of Them, Actually.
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Grandpa Was A Baller: The Weird, Wonderful Tales Of An Early NBA Player, Who Happens To Be My Grandfather
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"Hell Is Other People's Fantasy Teams": Do Fantasy Sports Alienate Us?
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A Stripper's Guide To The Final Four
During the 2007 Final Four, I traveled to Atlanta with a couple of friends to dance at the Pink Pony. We were surprised to find the local dancers questioning why the dancer manager was urging them to work all weekend, then do it again next weekend during the Masters. By the Sunday before the final, ...
The Beards Of Summer: Remembering The Days When A Barnstorming Cult Ruled Baseball
Chris Siriano wants to get the hell out of Michigan. Even on a gorgeous fall day in Addison (population 627), with the leaves turning and the sun bright, Siriano—middle-aged, sporting a gray goatee and ball cap—can't stop dreaming about the beach. "I raised my daughter by myself and everybody knew t...
Excerpts From The Long-Lost Script For <em>Monday Night Football: The Cartoon</em>
So total at the time was Cosell's saturation of culture that Irwin Weiner, an ABC Sports vice president for twenty years, once came up with a concept for a Saturday morning kids' series called "Monday Night Football: The Cartoon", one that would turn Cosell, Gifford and Meredith into animated charac...
Confessions Of A Fan Photographer: The Abyss Gazes Back!
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Duncan Siemens Rides The Bus: On The Loneliness Of The Long-Distance Minor-League Bus Rider
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A Chronicle Of Doing It: Nike And Destruction
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The Homer In Winter: In Defense Of Tommy Heinsohn
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Why Athletes Keep Chasing Head Injuries
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The Ballad Of Dane Sanzenbacher And His Scrawny, White Friends
Pete Segall and our plucky friends at The Classical have a good story up today about Dane Sanzenbacher and the receiver's burden after one dropped pass in November: "It cannot be easy for Dane Sanzenbacher, and it's easy to imagine the hard thrumming pressure on him, the sensation of letting down th...
The Autumn Years Of Bill "Spaceman" Lee
Paul Flannery drove many miles from Cambridge to Burlington to find out what one of the more colorful characters in baseball history is up to in his old age. It seems Bill "Spaceman" Lee hasn't slowed down a bit. Lee throws over 200 pitches in a 14-inning senior league game, wears Russian baseball j...
The World Series of Entropy
The Classical launches in November, but the cruel folks behind it love baseball way too much to let the World Series pass without comment. Throughout the series, its writers will do a daily diary for Deadspin. Keep tabs on us @Classical....
David Freese Is Robert Horry
The Classical launches in November, but the cruel folks behind it love baseball way too much to let the World Series pass without comment. Throughout the series, its writers will do a daily diary for Deadspin. Keep tabs on us @Classical....
Tony La Russa's Illusion Of Genius
The Classical launches in November, but the cruel folks behind it love baseball way too much to let the World Series pass without comment. Throughout the series, its writers will do a daily diary for Deadspin. Keep tabs on us @Classical....
George W. Bush Is A Face In The Crowd
The Classical launches in November, but the cruel folks behind it love baseball way too much to let the World Series pass without comment. Throughout the series, its writers will do a daily diary for Deadspin. Keep tabs on us @Classical....
Albert Pujols Is Taking Hostages
The Classical launches in November, but the cruel folks behind it love baseball way too much to let the World Series pass without comment. Throughout the series, its writers will do a daily diary for Deadspin. Keep tabs on us @Classical....