Update on our database of police-involved shootings: It's still happening. We have more than a thousand entries from 2011-2013; those still need to be factchecked. If you'd like to help with that end of the process, email [email protected]. Read more

The FreeDarko lads preview every NBA game of the 2014-15 season. [GQ] Read more

Are there any readers out there with moderate video know-how who have access to tape of the Nov. 14, 1977, Monday Night Football game? Cardinals-Cowboys, if that helps. Email us: [email protected]. Read more

Choire Sicha is the only one here talking any sense: "For far too long now, sports stars haven't been able to properly benefit from the labors of their production (of dick pics). Now, thanks to Jeter, they can take the correct ownership of monetizing their intellectual property (dick pics)." [Digiday] Read more

The Jeter slurping gets metaphysical: "Wherever he goes, whether it's second base or somewhere else, everyone is expecting him to be Derek Jeter, and he always delivers." [NYT] Read more

Sounds like at least a couple judges on the Ninth Circuit want to toss Barry Bonds's conviction for what amounted to rambling in the first degree. Below is what we wrote about the dumb Bonds prosecution in 2011. Read more

Via reader Sean: This, from Grantland's Jonah Keri, is an astute and comprehensive piece of baseball analysis about the baffling collapse of the A's since the trade deadline. This, from the San Francisco Chronicle's Bruce Jenkins, is not. [Grantland | SF Chron] Read more

Andy Staples's oral history of the 2007 Appalachian State-Michigan upset is a lot of fun, as you would expect of an oral history that features an offensive lineman saying, "Man, I was throwing up out of both ends before that game." [SI.com] Read more

Meet Jake "Steiny" Steinberg, the 20-year-old Jets marketer, publicist, reporter, blogger, agent, and superfan who had an Entourage character named after him. [SI.com] Read more

Go read this story in Slate by a guy who makes a convincing case that he was the worst high school quarterback of all time. [Slate] Read more

Excellent lede: "Maybe they should call it White People magazine." [NYDN] Read more