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Melting the Plastic Man
Here's a classic for you—Gary Cartwright's 1973 Texas Monthly piece on Tom Landry:...
Ticket to Ride
Robert Lipsyte describes the day Cassius Clay met the Beatles:...
Fantastic Finish Lifts San Jose Earthquakes Past L.A. Galaxy
First, Shea Salinas punched in to equalize in the 92nd minute. Then the Earthquakes struck again in extra time, with Alan Gordon heading in the match winner to the delight of an absolutely mad crowd....
Gennady Golovkin Obliterated Matthew Macklin With A Lethal Body Blow
Gennady Golovkin retained his WBA middleweight title at Foxwoods tonight after dispatching what was supposed to be his toughest challenger ever, Matthew Macklin. The Kazakh did so by hammering Macklin with a terrifying body shot that left the challenger flat on the floor for several minutes....
"Would I Do Troy Aikman on Sunset Strip? Yes!"
Check out David Kamp's 2006 GQ profile of Dave Kopay:...
Help! My Fiancée Is Orange And So Is My Bathroom
Jolie Kerr is a cleaning expert and advice columnist. She'll be here every other week helping to answer your filthiest questions. Are you dirty? Email her....
Put the Needle to the Groove
Soulful Sixties Sounds—for anyone who loves '60's Soul, R&B, Jazz, Latin and Boogaloo Sounds, man, this tumblr site is the gift that keeps giving. ...
Foul Ball Scares The Shit Out Of Two Women In Front Row
From last night's Mets-White Sox game in Chicago, OMGWHATWASTHAT!?!!?...
Manchild In The Promised Land: Where Darryl Dawkins Came From
Originally published in the April 30, 1980, issue of Inside Sports. Reprinted here with the author's permission....
Bill Raftery Leaving ESPN For Fox Sports
Fox Sports 1, which launches in August, has poached its biggest name from Bristol: Bill Raftery is joining Fox Sports 1 after more than three decades with ESPN. He'll do Big East games with Gus Johnson. Enjoy that, internet. ...
Original Madman
Do yourself a favor and head on over to Time's essential Lightbox site and check out Phil Bicker's tribute to Bert Stern who passed away a couple of days ago at the age of 83....
The Art of Storytelling
There’s a fine post on John Huston over at Cinephilia and Beyond, which has quickly become one of my favorite all-time sites. They give us a 1965 interview with Huston inFilm Quarterly. Dig this:...
American Treasure
Via NPR, Alan Lomax’s massive archive goes on line....
The Alex Rodriguez Saga Is Turning Ugly
On Tuesday, Alex Rodriguez revealed to the world that he's been cleared to play in games again. Yankees GM Brian Cashman said A-Rod "should just shut the fuck up." Here's what Rodriguez is thinking: The Yankees should pay the fuck up. Because whether he plays again this season is a $22 million ques...
Been There, Bombed That. <em>White House Down</em>, Reviewed.
Die Hard was a brilliant concept for an action movie that's been much duplicated since: Die Hard on a bus (Speed); Die Hard in a hockey rink (Sudden Death); Die Hard on a battleship (Under Siege). But what a lot of the copycats forget is that it's not the claustrophobic location that made the origi...
While In The Batter's Box, Alex Gordon Was Attacked By A Giant Moth
Bottom of the ninth, two outs, runners on second and third. The Royals were down by a run. There was a one-ball count to Alex Gordon, when—WAIT!...
Which Are The Hardest American Sports To Break Into?
I was on a flight earlier this week when the cabin pressure changed and my ears popped. So I did the normal thing where you swallow five hundred times in a row and hope no one notices you swallowing so profusely, and nothing happened. My eardrums still felt like they were buried under a pile of sand...
Stealing Signs In Baseball: A Hall Of Famer's Guide
There are many fair ways to steal the signs of the enemy, so many that the smart ball-player is always kept on the alert by them. Baseball geniuses, some almost magicians, are constantly looking for new schemes to find out what the catcher is telling the pitcher, what the batter is tipping the base...