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Knock 'Em Out The Box: Sport For Art's Sake
From the Sports Curator comes this 1921 Heywoood Broun column for the New York World:...
Tiger's Burdened Walk
Charlie Pierce once wrote a celebrated story about Tiger Woods. Now, he writes about Woods again. Slide on over to Grantland and read "The Burdened Walk":...
Who Had The Worse Shitty Week: Tiger Or Phil?
Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson each had awful weeks at the PGA Championship. But we have an important question that needs answering: ¿Quien fue más malo?...
Tiger's $54 Million House Is A Slowly Sinking Metaphor For Something
You know, $54.5 million just doesn't go as far as it once did. Tiger Woods, who scraped together enough dough to get a mortgage at that price in Jupiter Island, Fla., two years ago, is already finding that out. We've all been there....
Trouble Is My Business
“Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.”...
Tiger Woods Finds First Sunday Birdie Finger-Licking Good
After making his first birdie of the day at the Bridgestone Invitational on No. 10, Tiger's semi-sarcastic reaction was pretty good. [CBS]...
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After "LEEROY JENKINS" Yell, Tiger Chips In For Birdie [UPDATE]
Whether you think a jeer of "Eat more chicken!" directed at Tiger Woods as he teed off at the 13th hole of Saturday's third round of the Bridgestone Invitational was racist or merely viral and awful Chick-Fil-A marketing (Update: Duh, it's "LEEROY JENKINS!"), it wasn't nearly as good as what Tiger d...
Always Do The Right Thing
From the July-August 1991 issue of Film Comment, here's a portion of Gavin Smith's interview with Danny Aiello. They talk Spike, Woody and Fort Apache, the Bronx....
White Lines: I'm Not Worth A Damn
How cocaine ruined Don Reese's career (John Underwood, SI, 1982):...
Racing's Angriest Young Man And The Greatest Hits of 1961
Though it's not easy to navigate I think it's worth your time to cruise on over to the Internet Archives to read the full text of The Best Sports Stories 1961. It includes pieces by Stanley Woodward, W.C. Heinz, Myron Cope, Red Smith, Blackie Sherrod, Dick Schaap, Tex Maule, Dick Young, Roger Kahn, ...
This One Goes To Eleven
Slide on over to the Hollywood reporter and check out this excerpt from Michael Walker's new book What You Want Is in the Limo:...
Lying and Charm: Woody Allen's <em>Blue Jasmine</em>, Reviewed.
Write and direct about 45 movies in the span of five decades, and there's a pretty good chance that certain themes will keep repeating themselves. Woody Allen's huge body of work is impressive both because of the number of gems he's produced—by dint of his work ethic, he has more great films to his ...
Tiger Woods Is In The Same Old Hole Again
A reminder: Tiger Woods has never won a major when trying to come from behind after 54 holes. He'll have to do it to win the British Open....
The Last Swinger
Earlier this year, Tom Junod was kind enough to let me reprint his 1996 GQ Tony Curtis profile, "The Last Swinger" over on The Banter....
“I Think That ‘E’ Made The Whole Fucking Difference”
From Hollywood: Stars and starlets, tycoons and flesh-peddlers, moviemakers and moneymakers, frauds and geniuses, hopefuls and has-been, great lover and sex symbols, Garson Kanin's appealing, gossipy memoir:...
The Movie Love Bookshelf
Here’s a good read for the movie nerd in your life. Thomson is a lot of fun to read even when you don’t agree with him....
Working Stiffs
I admire Elmore Leonard and Woody Allen because they just keep working. Elmore is 87, Woody is 77. And they don't stop. ...