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Swee'pea Daniels: "Too Beautiful To Be True"
Benjamin May, a filmmaker out of Minneapolis is directing a documentary on the legend of Lloyd "Swea'pea" Daniels. The trailer is above and, if you like, you can donate to the Kickstarter here. Also, if you missed it the first time we featured it, read Ivan Solotaroff's article below on Daniels and...
The Greatest Season In NBA History*, Brought To You By DeAndre Liggins
The play above—what looks like an afterthought in LeBron James's 61-point outburst against the Bobcats—represents the sole meaningful play of #14 DeAndre Liggins's season. Spending most of the year in D-League, Liggins was signed by Miami late in February and released in mid-March, appearing in just...
Hubcaps
Thomas McGuane has a good short story in this week's New Yorker:...
European Golfer Jumps Into Lake To Escape Hornet Attack
Pablo Larrazabal was just minding his own business, playing through his second round at the Malaysian Open on Friday, when all of a sudden—HORNET ATTACK!...
The #AskEmmert Q&A Is Going Poorly
Mark Emmert is on Mike & Mike this morning, and the show asked listeners to submit questions for the NCAA president on Twitter, tagged #AskEmmert. It has, predictably, turned into a mini-revolt against the NCAA....
Rare Video Of People Actually Riding Action Park's Infamous Water Slide
No theme park has generated more urban legends—and more confusion about the line between myth and actual, horrible reality—than Action Park, the late, lamented (and since semi-resurrected) water park in northern New Jersey. And no ride has been the subject of more rumors than the Cannonball Loop....
Why I Fixed Fights
I fixed a lot of fights over the years. In two I didn't fix but should have, people paid heavily for my carelessness. Even though I set up Mitch "Blood" Green and Leon Spinks cushion-soft in their comeback fights, I managed to get one embarrassed and the other nearly killed. There had been opportuni...
Presenting Your 2014 Name Of The Year
Shamus Beaglehole has prevailed. Here's to you, Shamus....
This Looks Painful
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Nik Cohn On The Beatles
"If the Beatles meant a lot in England, they meant very much more in America," wrote Nik Cohnin his brisk, entertaining history of Rock n Roll, Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: Pop from the Beginning. "They changed everything. They happened at a time when American pop was bossed by trash, by dance crazes...
Lawyer Who Aided NCAA's Miami Investigation Faces Ethics Charges
Yesterday, the Florida Bar formally filed ethics charges against Maria Elena Perez, the attorney who represented booster Nevin Shapiro and helped the NCAA illegally obtain evidence against the University of Miami. Perez is accused of 15 separate violations of Bar rules, in providing help for the inv...
ESPN Deportes Baseball Analysts: Slightly More Attractive Than ESPN's
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The Masters Is Better As Minigolf
This is a remarkably well-done reimagining of The Masters in an infinitely more entertaining, putt-putt form. I would watch this. I would play this. I would wreck this....
Revising A Miracle: What if the Mets Had Drafted Reggie?
Dig the 3-part series by Chris and Jon DeRosa. ...
Is This The Saddest Mascot?
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Bubba Watson Went To Waffle House To Celebrate His Masters Win
Bubba Watson, everyone's favorite Southern chillbro golfer, won his second Masters in three years yesterday, and he celebrated the achievement exactly as you would expect him to. After claiming his second green jacket, Watson and his crew made a late-night Waffle House run, because Waffle House is a...
Wake Up, Yankeefan
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Luke Donald Was Ratted Out By Masters Spectators
Englishman Luke Donald had a rough first round at the Masters, carding a 77 even before being notified of a two-stroke penalty for a bunker shot on nine. It seems Donald grounded his club with the ball still in the sand, and nobody would have noticed—if not for a couple of eagle-eyed fans who tattle...