I am in New York’s Adirondack Park for the week, in a lake-front cottage a mile outside of a small town that has, I believe, one stop-sign. There is a business in the town that quadruples as a bar, restaurant, video-rental store and internet cafe. The food and drink are lovely, the video selection is [...]
There’s nothing funny about the dogfighting and other crimes with which Michael Vick has been charged. But this is different. Embattled NFL quarterback Michael Vick, facing federal charges related to his alleged participation in dogfighting, has been hit with a “$63,000,000,000 billion dollar” lawsuit filed by a South Carolina inmate who alleges the Atlanta Falcons [...]
It seems that I wasn’t alone on Tuesday in finding a lot to wonder about in newly acquired Pirates pitcher Matt Morris’ stats. Since then, ESPN has called Pirates GM Dave Littlefield’s decision to trade for Morris “bizarre” and “inexcusable.” Yahoo! said, “Matt Morris? Really?” Just for fun, here are some Matt Morris charts that [...]
I prematurely wrote a post earlier today about how much I hate the Detroit Tigers for taking “Home Run Jack” Wilson away from the Pittsburgh Pirates, even though his 47 career home runs in seven seasons makes me the only person to call him Home Run Jack. But the negotiations for Wilson failed, and the [...]
The Columbia Journalism Review‘s Gal Beckerman writes, at the end of a post noting the journalism profession’s decline in cultural nobility: I can’t remember a positive portrayal of a reporter on film in the last few years. The first journalism movie from recent times that even comes to mind is [Shattered Glass]. Oh boy, this [...]