You're never going to get me to say anything bad about Tommy Craggs. The guy once sent me to Panama for a story and…
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Larry Majors saunters toward Hardee-McGee Field—the oldest on-campus football stadium in the South—from the brick…
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Originally published in the February 1963 issue of Nugget, "The Fight: Patterson vs. Liston" also appears in At…
Mostly agreed, "Don't Do It" sooo much better on Rock of Ages. I think Caravan should be #1 and I'm not even factoring in Van Morrison's wardrobe or cocaine intake. Read more
A version of this story originally appeared in the fall 2012 edition of XI Quarterly.
No snark: Craggs should write more. I miss his stuff. Read more
When I was 25 I got a job with the Coen brothers. I'd worked on three movies as an apprentice film editor and got a…
This piece on the 2 Chechen soccer players at FC Beitar is worth a shout as well: Read more
My deal re Spiders: I don't care for Chief Wahoo or the nickname Indians. I understand most fans of the team feel differently. My choice is to opt out, and I think "Spiders" sounds cooler than "Baseball Club." Also I hate your freedom.
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Only reason I can recall it off hand is that Bob Dole congratulated the Brooklyn Dodgers for it. Read more
My best Ray Durham story in short form: for a summer I interned with the State's Attorney's child support enforcement division. I sometimes assisted with intake, during which the petitioners would sometimes arrive with "proof" of their child's paternity. Read more
I love how it's an unacceptable, nigh-immoral brand of selfishness (maybe not for you personally, but for many others whose arguments share the broad outline of yours) for a player to insist upon being paid the fair market value for his work, but when a team callously cuts a long-tenured player for losing a step or… Read more
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no one ever told me about the dangers of marijuana, or maybe they did and I just forgot. forgot because of the weed or blows to the head? now that's a good question Read more
In the 20 years since the 1994 player strike interrupted Tony Gwynn's run at .400 and derailed the Montreal Expos' inevitable march to what would have been their first and only World Series, baseball hasn't suffered a single canceled game. Read more
This was a fun read, thanks. It does seem like even a lot of hardcore boxing fans don't know all that much about Canelo because of how briefly he's been featured on US TV and the fact that he doesn't speak much English (or at least didn't until recently). Unless Mayweather has faded dramatically in the past 6 months,… Read more