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I'm not sure what drove me to imagine a major league ballplayer who had one monstrous at-bat, and then never did anything at the plate a...

The Seattle Seahawks--this blog's Super Bowl favorites--are blessed with two of the greatest talents in football. One has talk to match ...

Johnette Howard of ESPN has written a fascinating summary of the triumph and travails of Oscar Pistorius, the path-blazing runner who might...

Congratulations to Capital grad Alex Linnenkohl, who was signed by the Chicago Bears to a 3-year contract, getting a shot at center. The Ol...

Enjoy your vuvuzela, you germ-spreading hooligan, you.

Apropos of nothing: Jacob Tucker.

If I was a little road-ragey on the drive home yesterday afternoon, it wasn't just because the freeway was clogged by idiots (58 in the ...

Dave Niehaus, the soul of Mariner baseball, has passed away at seventy-five. In his honor, 710 ESPN has compiled some of his most memorable ...

"I PERSONALLY GUARANTEE THAT THE CLEVELAND CAVALIERS WILL WIN AN NBA CHAMPIONSHIP BEFORE THE SELF-TITLED FORMER ‘KING’ WINS ONE" D...

Longtime readers of the blog know that every now and then I feature the latest speculation about Toxoplasma gondii and its potential influe...

Jeff Sullivan tackles the myth that ex-Mariners inevitably thrive upon exiting Seattle. A sample: Cha Seung Baek : Traded to San Diego. Mad...

Baseball websites are bursting at the seams with statistics of every stripe. (Yes, I went there--twice.) And now, remarkably, you can find...

Peter Gammons recaps 20 years with ESPN. ESPN sent me to every World Series in those 20 years. In 1991, when I got out onto the field at the...

In case you doubted the inherent and insatiable sociality of the human species, or, at least, will cheer for anything: Improv Everywhere...

1. Kevin Kelley of Pulaski Academy High explains his team's no-kick approach to football . The short story: it's all about the numb...

Steven Levitt and Ken Kovash claim that pitchers, among other athletes, are too predictable : They first analysed over 3 million pitches thr...

No matter how terrible your sports franchise of choice has been over the past couple decades, at least it's probably had a winning seaso...

I kept thinking, I know I've seen that Usain Bolt pose before. Because I had. Milk River, Alberta, 2006. As you can see, Bolt's po...

Topps, maker of some of the ugliest baseball cards in existence, has crowded out its last major competitor, Upper Deck, by signing an exclus...

When the FIFA World Cup came to America for the first time , I was 15. I knew nothing about the sport, except that everyone else in the wor...