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Somewhere Between Winning and Losing
Bethlehem Shoals wants to rid our sports vocabulary of the ‘lovable loser’ label. As a kid, I was a picky sports fan. Then I ditched sports for music snobbery. I used to think that coming back to...
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The Conversation: Fernando Torres, Carmelo Anthony, and Liberated Fandom
Ryan O’Hanlon and Max Ornstein discuss Fernando Torres, Carmelo Anthony, and ‘liberated fandom.’ See if you can keep up. This was written before Carmelo Anthony was traded to the Knicks. Check out the...
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I Need Some Time to Not Watch Sports
Bethlehem Shoals, a basketball obsessive, explains why he watched the Oscars instead of last night’s Knicks-Heat matchup. Yesterday, the NBA had the good sense to schedule Knicks-Heat—a marquee game...
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On #Abandonment, Be It of Yard or Blog
With guys like John Steigerwald gainfully employed, David Matthews wonders where the jobs are for the left-brained sportswriter. It’s fitting that in the week that Josh Zerkle stepped down from his...
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The Passion of Odd Future
Odd Future are one of the most buzzworthy, talented, and controversial young acts in music. Kevin Lincoln considers how their lyrical content—which includes bursts of misogyny and homophobia—should...
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To Forget and Then Forgive
Whether you forgive Michael Vick or not, Bethlehem Shoals writes, his recent Nike endorsement is a sign that he’ll be allowed to leave his past behind. Kick and scream all you want about Michael...
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Imagining a Locked-out World
The NFL and NBA lockouts could have had a huge impact on the male psyche. Maybe they still will. The NFL and its players have supposedly patched up their differences, so it seems, which means there...
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The 10 at 10
1. GOLD GOLD GOLD. 2. America has kept its AAA credit rating. 3. The trial of ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has begun. 4. The debt deal will make grad school loans more expensive to pay off....
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A Basketball Writer Who Can’t Ball
Bethlehem Shoals’ relationship with basketball exists solely through watching and writing about the NBA, and he doesn’t think there’s anything wrong with that. — I’m not very good at basketball....
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We Are Excited About ‘The Classical’
Earlier today, a new sportswriting project was announced called The Classical. They’re looking to raise $50,000. Here’s why: Every day, The Classical will deliver several regular columns, a host of...
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Being a Sports Fan Is Totally Dishonest
There is, and always will be, something fundamentally dishonest about sports. How exactly that breaks, though, depends on the fan in question. Sports, unless we’ve happened upon some broke-down bean...
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You Dance and Shake the Hurt
Yago Colas reflects on race and basketball, as they were lived and played, body and soul, in 1970’s America. In 1968, when I was 3, my family moved from Portland, Oregon to Madison, Wisconsin....
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