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Nov 12, 2025
In 1919, Shoeless Joe Jackson was a top-10 position player in baseball. He led his White Sox to the World Series, where he hit .375/.394/.563 over eight games against the Cincinnati...
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Nov 3, 2025
There hasn’t been an eight-game World Series since 1921. But even eight games’ worth of baseball was not enough to anoint an MLB champion in 2025. Nine innings into Game...
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Oct 31, 2025
In the penultimate episode of Yellowstone, horse trainer and trader Travis Wheatley, played by Taylor Sheridan, tries to up the price for a horse he’s putting through its...
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Oct 20, 2025
On Friday night in Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Dodgers secured a second consecutive pennant by beating the Milwaukee Brewers 5-1 in NLCS Game 4. They dispatched the team with...
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Oct 7, 2025
If you’re looking for evidence that William Goldman’s maxim about the movie industry—“nobody knows anything”—is as true today as it was in 1983,...
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Aug 6, 2025
There’s no canonical reason for most superheroes to be brolic. Maybe it makes sense for, say, Peacemaker to be built like John Cena: Cena’s character, Chris Smith,...
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Jul 9, 2025
There are, and always have been, two distinct Star Wars fan bases: The one that watches Star Wars stories, and the one that reads Star Wars stories.
Like almost all...
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Jun 5, 2025
Last weekend, the Yankees played the Dodgers, which provided the perfect prompt to re-live last year’s World Series (much to the Yankees’ dismay). It also offered another...
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May 9, 2025
“Amazing,” Paul Murphy says, as soon as he picks up the phone. “Holy shit. You can quote me on that.”
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Apr 8, 2025
Some sports record setters were expected to be the best from the start. Wayne Gretzky was; dubbed “The Great One” when he was 10 years old, Gretzky never needed another...
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Apr 2, 2025
On Saturday, the New York Yankees provided the most potent product placement since Ashton Hall’s viral video of his morning ritual caused a spike in sales of Saratoga Spring...
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Jan 1, 2025
A while back, I decided to keep track of every paywall I encountered in the course of my regular web browsing. After I blew by two dozen, I decided to stop. For a few weeks,...
Nov 12, 2025In 1919, Shoeless Joe Jackson was a top-10 position player in baseball. He led his White Sox to the World Series, where he hit .375/.394/.563 over eight games against the Cincinnati...
Nov 3, 2025There hasn’t been an eight-game World Series since 1921. But even eight games’ worth of baseball was not enough to anoint an MLB champion in 2025. Nine innings into Game...
Oct 31, 2025In the penultimate episode of Yellowstone, horse trainer and trader Travis Wheatley, played by Taylor Sheridan, tries to up the price for a horse he’s putting through its...
Oct 20, 2025On Friday night in Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Dodgers secured a second consecutive pennant by beating the Milwaukee Brewers 5-1 in NLCS Game 4. They dispatched the team with...
Oct 7, 2025If you’re looking for evidence that William Goldman’s maxim about the movie industry—“nobody knows anything”—is as true today as it was in 1983,...
Aug 6, 2025There’s no canonical reason for most superheroes to be brolic. Maybe it makes sense for, say, Peacemaker to be built like John Cena: Cena’s character, Chris Smith,...
Jul 9, 2025There are, and always have been, two distinct Star Wars fan bases: The one that watches Star Wars stories, and the one that reads Star Wars stories. Like almost all...
Jun 5, 2025Last weekend, the Yankees played the Dodgers, which provided the perfect prompt to re-live last year’s World Series (much to the Yankees’ dismay). It also offered another...
May 9, 2025“Amazing,” Paul Murphy says, as soon as he picks up the phone. “Holy shit. You can quote me on that.”
Apr 8, 2025Some sports record setters were expected to be the best from the start. Wayne Gretzky was; dubbed “The Great One” when he was 10 years old, Gretzky never needed another...
Apr 2, 2025On Saturday, the New York Yankees provided the most potent product placement since Ashton Hall’s viral video of his morning ritual caused a spike in sales of Saratoga Spring...
Jan 1, 2025A while back, I decided to keep track of every paywall I encountered in the course of my regular web browsing. After I blew by two dozen, I decided to stop. For a few weeks,...