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Pot Isn't Life And Death, And Tyrann Mathieu Isn't A Redemption Story
Tyrann Mathieu smoked some weed in college. If we're going to play this brain-dead association game, let's start by being clear about what he actually did. He smoked some weed, somehow got vilified for it, was thrown off his football team, went to rehab for weed, and now plays for the Arizona Cardin...
All The Right Moves--And A Few Wrong Ones--With Pat Jordan
In 1996, Pat Jordan wrote a story on Joe Torre for the New York Times magazine. It wasn't a long profile or a particularly memorable one. By Pat's own admission, it is a minor piece. The story did not make the cut for a collection of Pat's sports writing that I edited; in fact, it didn't make the B-...
Mike Krzyzewski Thinks Tanking NBA Teams Are Un-American
Someone asked Mick Krizilonski what he thought about NBA teams potentially tanking the season in order to get a better shot at drafting someone like Jabari Parker or Andrew Wiggins. His response was peak Coach K....
Alex Gibney And Betsy Andreu Are Here To Talk About <em>The Armstrong Lie</em>
Documentarian Alex Gibney, director of the Oscar-winning Taxi to the Dark Side, has spent his career making films about corruption and the abuse of power. The project that eventually became The Armstrong Lie wasn't necessarily meant to be one of them. What had initially been a story about Armstrong'...
Lance Armstrong On The Moment He Decided To Start Doping
Behind all the overwrought drug war rhetoric that gets brought to bear on the subject of doping in sports, there are the simple calculations that Lance Armstrong lays out in this unused clip from the documentary The Armstrong Lie, which for all its brevity offers about the most precise explanation o...
Dancing Pitt Coach Paul Chryst Proves He Has A Personality
"It's not that Paul Chryst is intentionally trying to sound boring." That's how the Associated Press once described the Pitt football coach's public persona. But behind closed doors, after a big win like Saturday's against Notre Dame, with a big ol' naked ass nearby? Paul Chryst boogies down....
Pierre The Pelican Just Got Infinitely More Terrifying
Gah! Run away, kids! Run away as fast as you can!...
The Two Rogers
Here is a memoir story I wrote last year for SB Nation. It is about my father and also about Roger Angell and Roger Kahn:...
The Curious Childhood Of An 11-Year Old Beauty Queen
Pat Jordan's 1994 story for LIFE magazine. ...
NCAA Declared Student Ineligible For Entering Costume-Optional Fun Run
It's clear now that the NCAA uses public opinion as its final appeals process. It ruled former marine Steven Rhodes ineligible to play football at Middle Tennessee State because he had played in a military rec league. It ruled Colgate basketball player Nathan Harries ineligible because he had played...
"That Moment Before It Starts When You're Scared": Tyson In His Prime
Before he became the main attraction at the freak show, and before he became a kitsch icon, Mike Tyson was the youngest heavyweight champion in history, and a fighter of seemingly limitless promise. There was no way to know it at the time, but when Pete Dexter wrote the story below, he was capturing...
The Tao Of Bobby Orr
From Andrew Cohen over at the Atlantic:...
Clay Matthews Has A Huge Club On His Right Hand
Clay Matthews is playing today against the Eagles after breaking his thumb in Week 5. Matthews protected his hand by having it wrapped to essentially become a club, which will require some improvisation while tackling. Philadelphia's players should be worried about getting hit with that thing. ...
Man Fined $280 For Throwing Football At Chargers Tailgate
One would think that in the parking lot before an NFL game kicks off, a tailgater could mimic Philip Rivers and throw a football around with some friends. Not at Qualcomm Stadium, though....
Jordan Weethee Follows Up Filthy Dunk With Unsettling Celebration
This is such a nasty, posterizing dunk—valiant effort on the charge attempt, bud—that it really needs no celebration. The story behind it is great, as well. VMI's Jordan Weethee missed all of last season with an ACL tear, the second such injury of his career. Dude is back, and running shit. Just le...
VMI Sophomore Pulls Off Flawless Dunk-Mean Mug Combination
Jordan Weethee of the Virginia Military Academy just did this during the All-Military Classic against the Citadel. The dunk is spectacular, but so is Weethee's I'm-feeling-myself-so-hard-right-now stare into the camera. ...