If we can indulge in a brief moment of Welcome Back, Baseball — still early enough in the season, right? — it’s a…
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Al Neuharth’s obituary in the New York Times was notable as much for what it did say as what it didn’t. What it did…
If you only read one story about waking up after a drunken booty call to realize you're stuck at her house because of Boston's citywide manhunt, make it this one. [Esquire] Read more
The world had to wait a half hour, max, for people to speculate that the Boston Marathon bombing was a “false flag,”…
Sources are telling ESPN.com’s college football reporters that the Big Ten is going to rename and realign its…
One indication of just how strange Jean Segura’s adventures on the basepaths were in Milwaukee’s 5-4 win over the…
There was the Underground Railroad and the Vietnam War. Then, in 2011, Poker Black Friday. Seems America sent a wave of "poker refugees" north to Canada when it cracked down on Internet poker two years ago Monday. [Torontoist] Read more
Every now and then you run across a photo so distinct it reminds you that when photographers cover an event such as,…
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As for the Week in Ironic Soccer Violence, we bring you the comedic-tragic World Class Players Cup out of Regina,…
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Sorry for yet more Kobe coverage on an otherwise pleasant Saturday, but as we could’ve witnessed the last of the man…
Winning after the first round at Augusta National is the boy tied for 46th place: Tianlang Guan, the 14-year-old who…
Today Tyler Kepner’s New York Times story about the dearth of African-American players in the Major Leagues quietly…
Before the federals busted it on account of its being an illegal sports gambling operation, the illegal sports…
This 1936 handbook for the would-be Lothario will walk you through the delicate art of lip-locking: "Different Sizes of Mouths Require a Different Technique in Kissing," et al. [Brain Pickings] Read more
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In the Nebraska spring game, Red inserted an undersized but plucky tailback by the name of Jack Hoffman for a…
The brackets for public radio shows is down to the finals, and of course it's Radiolab v. This American Life. Make like it's a facefucking swear word bracket and go vote, you twiddlepud. [scpr.org] Read more
From Dan Good at the New York Post:
Wrigley Field, the goat-themed cemetery where the past 105 seasons of Chicago Cubs baseball are buried, is finally…
Remember thinking I could do that as you watched kids flail around the map of Africa on Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? Turns out that no, no you couldn't, for it was impossible. [SB Nation] Read more
