There are only so many ways to describe a podcast, as regular readers of these little blogs already know. Because they are ...

Josh Naylor is slow. Not slow in the way that catchers are considered slow by default, or how some tall lanky guys seemingly ...

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World Table Tennis staged a Grand Smash tournament in Las Vegas for the first time. Like the Grand Slams of tennis, the Grand ...

How do you respond to a guy who’s proven that he can crush your 103.9-mph fastball deep into left field for a four-bagger? Well, you don’t throw him your 103.9-mph fastball; you dissolve him with your ...

Anyone who ever met Wavy Dave and lived to tell the tale—which is, in point of fact, everyone who has ever met Wavy Dave—would tell you about his claw. It was big, that’s for certain, but this was not ...

It is perhaps unfair to the rest of humanity to slot Alan Dershowitz in as a specific type of guy. He fits into a number of ...

Oh yeah, Cameron Brink! The Los Angeles Sparks’ No. 2 pick in 2024 last played in the WNBA over a year ago, when she tore her ...

Some people are fans of the Dallas Cowboys. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Dallas Cowboys. This 2025 Defector ...

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As summer marches on sweatily, and languid thoughts turn to relief, I am put in mind of the solution to all of our temperature-related troubles: the waterslide that kills you. Please send me down this ...