Science finds that running a 200-mile race may be easier on your body than running a 100-mile race. This has been another episode of Things That Will Never Apply To You. [Outside] Read more
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America, on occasion you really take care of your own. After the Boston Marathon bombing, people and companies…
"Late Friday, the references to MMA took on a new complexity." The prosecution in George Zimmerman's murder trial raises the specter of ground-and-pound. [Washington Post] Read more
The Blue Jays were so far south of their preseason projections that even after a 10-game winning streak they're…
When the Miami Heat won its only LeBronless title, in 2006, I was living outside Fort Lauderdale. My building fees…
Prisoners can get really good at handball while in the racquet-and-bat-free zone of, uh, prison. Once out, they still dig pick-up games. Read about St. Louis's handball scene here. [Riverfront Times] Read more
Over at Slate the normally amiable Josh Levin is lighting torches and sharpening farm implements, trying to foment a…
Tragic crash today at an air show in Dayton, Ohio: "Wing walker Jane Wicker’s plane crashed just before 1 p.m. as she sat on top of the inverted 450 HP Stearman. The plane burst into flames as it hit the ground." [Dayton Daily News] Read more
The Quebec Soccer Federation on Saturday morning announced it's going to align with a ruling FIFA made two days…
On Saturday the Marlins beat the Mets in 20 innings and the Blue Jays beat the Rangers in 18. Elias says that's only the second time two MLB games of at least 18 innings were played on the same day. [ESPN] Read more
The Boston Bruins will welcome the winner of the Chicago-L.A. series to the Stanley Cup Final because of their utter…
Tired of watching NBA players flop around, Mark Cuban is going to fund a flopping study. One of his companies is…
Did JaMarcus Russell tell his Raiders coaches that he'd studied up on a blank DVD? Regardless, says Gwen Knapp, he put up with enough in Oakland to deserve another bite at the NFL. [The Rotation] Read more
Here's a working barstool-grade theory as to why, during its dynastic run to four (perhaps soon five) titles since…
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