This is an excessively (excessively) long post about one of my favorite all-time athletes, someone I have spent way too much time thinking about. Recently, my friend Michael MacCambridge, on behalf of ESPN, asked me to rank my Top 5 college football players ever. It was hard, almost impossible, and I spent way too many [...]
A little while ago, I did a post about bad MVP choices. In there I was not looking for questionable choices — an old editor used to tell me that everything is questionable, right? I was looking for egregious choices.
(Isn’t “egregious” a great word. Doesn’t get used enough, in my opinion).
For instance, in 1997, Larry [...]
Every so often, we like to add a new feature to our old blog (just as every so often we like to refer to ourself in the plural — I have no idea where that came from and I apologize for whenever that might pop up). Unfortunately, I don’t really have any new ideas, and [...]
A few times on this blog, I’ve made passing mentions about my utter confusion about Dennis Eckersley. I grew up an Eck fan, of course, and I have admired the way he reinvented himself as a brilliant reliever after seven long years as a mediocre starter (from 1980-86, Eck went 74-78 with a 4.14 [...]
This figures to be the only post we’ll ever write about Abraham Lincoln. I mean, obviously this is just a goofy blog written by a goofy sportswriter. On most days the most significant questions to be asked here will be something like: “Do you remember the old electronic game Merlin?*”
* Merlin was a sort of [...]
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