A Saved By The Bell Choose-Your-Adventure Video Game? Oh Hell Yes.
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: the Internet is a wonderful place. The latest example begins below. Anyone who spent their formative years in the 90s will love this. (Though I would have liked...
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Greg LeMond will be on this week’s Phineas & Ferb
Anyone who has small children and basic cable knows that Phineas & Ferb is one of the best shows on television and one of the top 5 children’s cartoons of all time. This week’s episode, “Tour de...
View ArticleWhy are English rioters using baseball bats instead of cricket bats?
Following the recent surge in baseball bat sales at Amazon UK, Brian Palmer at Slate takes a look at the “history of mob violence and sporting goods” and asks why the British have chosen baseball bats,...
View ArticleGrantland at its best: Jonathan Abrams on Arvydas Sabonis
Two reasons I visit Grantland every day: Jonathan Abrams’s long-form piece on Arvydas Sabonis Michael Weinreb’s profile of Michael Ray Richardson These—and not the Humblebrag power rankings and updates...
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A brief history of gummy bears
gummy bears (Wikipedia) Mental Floss has a fascinating history of gummy bears. It begins: n 1920, a poor confectionery factory worker in Bonn, Germany, decided that it was high time he struck out on...
View ArticleRoger Goodell Abuses Power with Pryor Decision
Jason Whitlock never fails to get a reaction from people. Today, he wrote an article for Fox Sports shattering our ideas of the concept of “amateur” athletes and, further, how NFL Commissioner Roger...
View ArticleMinor League trivia game fails on two levels
This video, in which a contestant attempting to name sports franchises in California says, “Seattle Mariners,” has been making its rounds on the Internet. Ha, ha let’s make fun of the guy who thinks...
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Check Out Barry Bonds’ Hilarious High School Photo
SI.com recently released an awesome photo gallery on some famous athletes’ high school pictures. Here is the link to gallery: Athletes in Their High School Yearbook My favorite of the 28 photos has to...
View ArticleMust-Read 1998 SI Profile of Pat Summitt
Yesterday Tennessee women’s basketball coach Pat Summitt announced that she has early onset dementia, Alzheimer’s type. In the wake of such tragic news, take some time to read this 1998 Sports...
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347 people watched the Reds play the Marlins yesterday
At least according to one fan who decided to count. There were more people at my 7-year-old’s last swim meet. Good thing the fish are building a new stadium. Hans Deryk/AP The post 347 people watched...
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Join the movement to get Northern Illinois into the Big XII
Your new Big XII conference An NIU Huskie who likes to dream big created a Facebook page arguing for Northern Illinois’ inclusion in a new Big XII. (I was the 8th person to like it.) The page proposes...
View ArticleOregon ends Penn State’s 94-game home winning streak
The Penn State volleyball team hadn’t dropped a match at hone since 2005. Until yesterday. Oregon went into Happy Valley and beat the top-ranked, 4-time-defending-national-champion Nittany Lions 16-25,...
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Reminder: The WPS Championship is on FSN today
Last month we were all women’s soccer fans. But for those of us who don’t live on the east coast and who only have basic cable, that love affair ended when Saki Kumagai’s penalty kick sailed past Hope...
View ArticleVideo: Gael Monfils’ unnecessary and fruitless trick shot
I love Gael Monfils, but count me as unimpressed with this behind-the-back trick shot from his second-round U.S. Open match against Juan Carlos Ferrero yesterday. I’m not convinced that he couldn’t...
View ArticleMust-read 1995 SI piece on the break-up of the Southwest Conference
Amid speculation that the demise of the Big XII is imminent (though I’m still not convinced that will happen), it is instructive to look back on the last time a major conference fell apart. So do...
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