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Jimmy Patsos: A True Student Of Gary Williams
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Welington Castillo Took A Foul Ball Right To The Dick
Happy Opening Day, Welington Castillo. Sorry about your nards....

The Homecoming Of Willie Mays
Slide on over to the Daily Beast and check out this terrific 1972 Esquire story on Willie Mays by Murray Kempton:...

Here Are Some People Who Got A Record Deal Because Of Vine
Vine, for the most part, is a great thing. How can an app that gifted us with the Nae Nae Panda and the Volleyball Stanky Leg be described as anything else? It's also a silly thing, though, because it made it possible for the folk-singing duo known as "Us" to get a record deal....

She Didn't Care For What She Saw
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Oh C'Mon, His Butt's Not That Big
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Hitting The Note With The Allman Brothers Band
Last weekend I ran Grover Lewis' famous profile of the Allman brothers over at the Daily Beast....

Encyclopedia Brown Is On The Case
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Screencap Classix: April 12, 2010
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Hank The Dog Gets A Hero's Welcome In Milwaukee
Hank the dog stays winning like no dog before him. Over the weekend, Hank arrived at his new permanent home in Milwaukee, and he was welcomed in style....

The Old School Charm Of Harold Conrad
Last weekend over at the Stacks' Daily Beast home, I reprinted one of my favorite stories. Mark Jacobson's beautiful profile of Harold Conrad. Don't sleep:...

S-E-C! S-E-C!
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ESPN: Living In The Past
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Eyeblood Is The Call Of The Day
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The Brewers Are Bringing Hank The Dog To Milwaukee
It's a big day for Hank the dog, the stray who became an unofficial mascot of the Milwaukee Brewers when he wandered into the team's spring training facility in Arizona. The Brewers have decided that Hank, because he is such a good doggie, will be spending the baseball season in Milwaukee with the ...

Reminder: Bleeding From The Eye Is Good For Your Game
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Storming The Losing Team's Court Is Next Level
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The One With The Beer Is Doing It Right
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When England's Greatest Genius Took Over England's Best Team
If there's one sports novel you should read, it's probably The Damned Utd, David Peace's 2006 account of Brian Clough's disastrous 44-day tenure with a Leeds United side that detested him as much as he detested them. On one level it works as a meticulous, if fictional, reconstruction of a crucial pe...

I Heard His Son Is Pretty Good, Too
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