We Don't Know As Much As We Think We Do About Quarterbacks (or Anything Else, Really)
Johnny Unitas, the Minnesota Vikings, and the lost art of uncertainty.
Throwbacks: A Newsletter About Sports History and Culture
An Off the Beaten Path Exploration of Sports History, Culture, and Politics (and Assorted Minutiae)
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The Last Great Buddy Comedy
Butch and Sundance, Mike Krukow and Duane Kuiper, and the rare beauty of a friendship that changes everything.
When Did Sports Owners Stop Buying Into the Cities They Represent?
As franchises become flippable investment properties, the people who own them seem increasingly detached from what made them valuable in the first place.
Rooting for Laundry
Thirty years after the quintessential Seinfeld joke, the rules of fandom are more confusing than ever.
Goodbye To All The Shouting
A eulogy for the Embrace Debate era, and (hopefully) for the culture it built.
Sorry, But Baseball Is Not Doing Fine
Three decades after 1994, the sport still can't figure out how to embrace the collective good.
Waiting Out the Rain with George Carlin
Baseball, football, and the increasingly ambiguous hinge point between them.
For His Final Act, LeBron Chose Ambition Over Story
Every previous chapter of his career made narrative sense. Philadelphia doesn't.
"Because I kicked their f---ing ass" (July 1977)
Pro football's cult of toughness, and the viciousness of America.
I Watched Hot Dogs Rain From The Sky...and I Thought of Bill Veeck
A dumb, delightful promotion is a reminder that baseball should still surprise us.
The Pine-Tar Incident (July, 1983)
The quintessential New York sports moment, revisited.