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Batting Cleanup At The Little League World Series 27 Aug 2013 | 08:59 pm
Brendan Lowe A day at the Little League World Series, complete with kids playing baseball and engaging in ad hoc sledding, happy parents a long way from home, a man in a french fry costume being phot...
Mow Down Philly 26 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
Damon Agnos I don’t often dress up for Halloween, but then I don’t often lose golf games to Charles Barkley either. In 2012, I did both. Barkley’s a bit richer than I, so when we wager, the currency...
Sneaking Into Argentina 23 Aug 2013 | 09:11 pm
Elliott Turner In Argentina, the longstanding and supremely heated rivalry between Boca Juniors and River Plate means a lot. But that doesn't mean just anyone can get into it. Hide main image on ar....
Careful Whisper: On Sports and Scalp Tingles 22 Aug 2013 | 09:52 pm
Timothy Charles Davis Science has a name for the strange tingly sensation you got while teachers told stories in school: Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response, or ASMR. As it turns out, sports has a s...
Werewolf Blues, or Jayson Werth Is Forever 21 Aug 2013 | 09:43 pm
Ross Green When the Nationals signed him to a nine-figure contract in 2010, Jayson Werth was just a highly questionable free agent signing. In 2013, Werth and his deal seem to represent the weird, wh...
Like Kissing Your Aussie Cousin 20 Aug 2013 | 10:26 pm
Aram Gyan A conservative sport run by a cabal of myopic middle-aged men in a remote location far from the media’s prying eye and which, until recently, determined its champion through arcane rankings...
Ode on a Sports Bar 19 Aug 2013 | 10:21 pm
Diana Moskovitz No one really talks about loving sports bars. Very few of us actually do, and for very good reason. And yet these shabby, TV-jammed places are where we go to get something we need, an...
Yakkin' About SummerSlam: Party Pooper 16 Aug 2013 | 06:02 pm
Nick Bond Thomas Holzerman It's time for the Biggest Party of the Summer, so why is Nick so bummed? You guessed it: beards, Canadians and Captain Sunshine. Thankfully, Tom's here to make it all bett...
Selling Out 16 Aug 2013 | 10:52 am
Gregg Gethard Darren Young is the first openly gay wrestler in the long, checkered history of WWE. And because Darren Young works for WWE, what his courageous decision will mean for him and his caree...
Catalonian Hatorade 15 Aug 2013 | 08:14 pm
Elliott Turner For the past few years, many football fans have looked upon the success of FC Barcelona with disdain. As the sun sets on Barca's run of greatness, we must ask ourselves: were we just ...
