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A real world series: Inside the world championship of blind baseball

Pitchers and catchers. It used to be a magical phrase. It buried the past. It meant that this might be the year for Royals and the Pirates. It erased the last memories of a World Series that, most of…
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4057 words)

OTL: George Visger, The Damage Done

George Visger played for San Francisco in 1980. Courtesy of George Visger LOS ANGELES -- On a postcard-perfect Southern California morning, George Visger is pissing blood. This comes as a relief. For…
LENGTH: 35 minutes (8804 words)

t.co / Twitter

Twitter uses the t.co domain as part of a service to protect users from harmful activity, to provide value for the developer ecosystem, and as a quality signal for surfacing relevant, interesting…
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Gawker essay experiment brings weekend audience, attention to new writers

Before last weekend many people had never heard of Kiese Laymon — until his essay, “How To Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: A Remembrance,” appeared on Gawker’s…
LENGTH: 2 minutes (737 words)

The Truth Is Out There: From The 1985 NBA Draft Lottery To The Olympics To Game-Fixing ... Which Sports Conspiracy Can You Believe?

Editor's Note: To read the footnotes, hover your cursor over the number. "You know," says the magician, "it's very easy to fix flipping a coin." For instance: The tosses before football games. Turns…
PUBLISHED: May 30, 2012
LENGTH: 33 minutes (8288 words)

The Legacy Of Wes Leonard

After the autopsy, when the doctor found white blossoms of scar tissue on Wes Leonard's heart, he guessed they had been secretly building there for several months. That would mean Wes's heart was…
LENGTH: 25 minutes (6394 words)

End Game: Brain Trauma And The Future Of Youth Football In America

No one had a clue. Not his coaches. Not his teammates. Not even his mother, looking on from her usual spot in the grandstand. On a foggy November night four years ago, Drew Rickerson found himself…
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5135 words)

The Shame of College Sports

A litany of scandals in recent years have made the corruption of college sports constant front-page news. We profess outrage each time we learn that yet another student-athlete has been taking…
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1198 words)

Revisiting the 1987 NFL Replacements

A persistent man with an offer was calling, but Robert Williams had to be practical. He was turning 25, and it was time to be an adult. He had a wife to think about, plus a couple of kids. He had a stable, albeit ordinary, job in Waco, Texas, and that was just fine. See, a time comes in every man's life when a dream dies, and Williams apparently had come to peace with that when his phone rang in the fall of 1987. If he could just … get this guy from Dallas … off the phone …
SOURCE:ESPN
PUBLISHED: June 9, 2011
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3023 words)
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