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The Art Of Storytelling: Celebrity Profiles
Check out Tom Chiarella's essay in the Indianapolis Monthly about writing celebrity profiles:...
Fan Douses Tour de France Cyclist With Piss
Multiple outlets are reporting that a spectator threw piss at Britain's Mark Cavendish during the Tour de France's 11th stage today. There are neither photos nor video of the pissbombing (at least not yet!), which came one day after Cavendish was involved in this collision near the finish line with ...
What Becomes A Legend Most?
Tomorrow gives Andy Murray vs. Novak Djokovic in the men's final at Wimbledon. Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal bowed out early this year but that shouldn't stop us from recalling their great rivalry of the not-too-distant past. ...
Melting the Plastic Man
Here's a classic for you—Gary Cartwright's 1973 Texas Monthly piece on Tom Landry:...
Sunday Gravy
Simplicity at its finest (and most delicious) from the Goddess Marcella Hazan....
Toronto Maple Leafs Get Their Man
Frederik Gauthier: "I don't really watch hockey." Grew up near Montreal but doesn't have a favourite team....
Drake Tries To Get Into Heat Locker Room, Is Coldly Turned Away
This is your moment, anti-Drake America. Look upon his wounded expression and understand that it won't get any better than this. Savor it....
Old Man Jailed For Cheating At Ice Fishing
The wheels of justice turn slowly, but they finally caught up with a serial criminal named Alfred Mead, ending his reign of terror in the rural Minnesota competitive fishing community....
ESPN On Five-Minute Tiger Interview: "More Important For Us To Have No Restrictions"
ESPN decided that a short, tape-delayed interview with Tiger Woods near his mansion columns was better than no interview — and Lightning Round Tom Rinaldi was the first and obvious choice to conduct the interview, the WWL said....
Derrick Rose Is Ready To Play Basketball Now, Apparently
Rejoice, basketball fans, for Sad Derrick Rose is finally feeling like Old Derrick Rose just in time for the long summer offseason....
Anatomy of a Champion
Check this out—David Halberstam's 1996 Vanity Fair story on two Olympic hopefuls: ...
The Dodgers And Yankees Need New Mascots
Old-Timer's day at Dodger Stadium is like a who's who of Dodgers royalty and people who are named Billy Crystal and Larry King....
Judge Dismisses Governor's Penn State Suit Against The NCAA
A federal judge has tossed the lawsuit filed by Pennsylvania's governor over the NCAA's sanctions against Penn State, calling the suit "a Hail Mary pass" that "failed to advance the ball" as an anti-trust case....
Some Poor Soul Ordered A Tom Brady Fathead, Got Tim Tebow's Instead
How could you fackin' loozahs mix this up? NAWT only does Tim Tebow NAWT play for OW-AH fackin' team, he ain't even good enough to PRAY in front of Tawmmy Brady's jawkstrap!...
Woman Training For Half-Marathon Didn't Know She Was Pregnant
Odds are, part of the reason Trish Staine's pregnancy took her by surprise was that her husband John had a vasectomy. ...
The Black Berets: Red Smith On The Olympic Black Power Salute
Red Smith is the most respected sports columnist we've ever had. In his prime, Jimmy Cannon, Smith's friendly rival, was certainly as well-known. Cannon, the Voice of New York, was an emotional, colloquial writer whose reputation, unfortunately, has faded. But Smith endures. What is it about his wri...
The Last American Hero
And since we're talking classics, how 'bout Tom Wolfe's 1965 Esquire story on Junior Johnson? ...