Aw hell. Lou Reed is dead. There's a live version of "Sweet Jane" from 2003 that I can't find online right now but…
Baylor put up 505 yards in the first half against Kansas, somehow overcoming the decided schematic advantage enjoyed by any Charlie Weis-coached team. Read more
From a relative of boxer Frankie Leal, who died on Tuesday from a brain injury: "It was horribly tragic - seeing him in his hospital bed- no bruises on his face- looked fine." [Uppercutting] Read more
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Over on The Stacks, we're republishing Murray Kempton's classic dispatch from the first Clay-Liston fight, in…
He went 28-15 in three seasons and change, with the last of the losses coming yesterday, a 62-41 trash fire against…
"Yeah! Let's watch some interchangeable monsters kick the shit out of each other strategically! And use a ball!": Jack Dickey watches football with Nate Jackson (have we mentioned how great his book is?). [Time] Read more
Over on The Stacks, we've been running excerpts all week from a fun new anthology of Chicago sportswriting, edited…
Hiroshi Yamauchi, the longtime president of Nintendo who owned a majority stake in the Seattle Mariners but…
N.J. sports betting is dead: Thanks to a Third Circuit ruling, which was premised in part on the "reputational harm" leagues might suffer in a dystopia where Phil from Monmouth can openly put $50 on the Jets to cover. Skip Oliva wonders: What business is it of the federal government's to protect the reputations of… Read more
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Q: "How many people do you think you've had sex with?" A: "Counting oral sex, I think we're to four figures at this point. Let's call it a thousand." [The Hairpin] Read more
Manzielotry: "CBS Sports has added an extra camera that will focus solely on Texas A&M quarterback and reigning Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel. ... 'The one analogy I can make in terms of covering someone is we obviously spent four years covering Tim Tebow at Florida,' said Silver." [SI.com] Read more
Why NBC's NFL broadcast is so good: Last year, John Koblin sat down with Sunday Night Football producer Fred Gaudelli and got an inside look at how the top show on television is put together. Read more
Read this: On The Stacks, we've dug up a great old Playboy interview with Joe Namath in which he talks about sex, the mob, his racist college nickname, sex, women, sex with women, sex with women before important football games, and how many women he's had sex with. It is the most 1969 thing you'll ever read. Read more