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Seeded on Sat Feb 2, 2008 2:46 PM EST (Portfolio.com: Top 5)
Another twist in the business of sports from the author of Moneyball:
A Dozen Deserving of Hall
Seeded on Wed Jan 9, 2008 8:17 PM EST (ESPN.com)
Finally, the Goose is in. So that's one down and a dozen to go.
Massive failure of journalists allowed steroid culture to fester
Seeded on Sun Jan 6, 2008 10:46 AM EST (NY Daily News)
A cautionary tale -- and maybe a mea culpa -- from the sports reporter who was the ghost writer for Jose Canseco's "Juiced", the book that spurred action.
The Top Player in This League? It May Be the Sports Reporter
Seeded on Sat Jan 5, 2008 11:51 AM EST (The New York Times)
A few teams are rich and getting richer, hunting more avidly than ever for talent, raiding the less-endowed leagues, poaching free agents and bidding the prices of star players to unheard-of heights.
What is with Hall voters -- Duck, Duck, Duck, Goose?
Seeded on Sat Jan 5, 2008 11:18 AM EST (The San Diego Union-Tribune)
It's a rare columnist that can cite such diverse and deep thinkers as Einstein, Emerson and Goose Gossage to arrive at a cutting and insightful commentary on what the writer believes is the illogical voting practices for the National Baseball Hall of Fame. A snippet:
E&P: How Baseball Writers Blew the Drug Scandal
Seeded on Tue Dec 18, 2007 4:45 PM EST (Editor & Publisher)
More than a dozen current and former baseball writers and their editors spoke with E&P about the often shoddy job sports reporters did on the steroid scandal in baseball, which now appears to date back almost 20 years.
Colorado Rockies at Play In the Fields of the Lord
Seeded on Thu Oct 25, 2007 2:41 PM EDT (The Washington Post)
Though team managers and Major League Baseball have tried to downplay the team's religious zeal after an article last year in USA Today quoted several managers and players as saying a Christian-based code of conduct is the root of their success, the signs are still pretty clear t …
Rox vs. Sox: New Blood and Blue Blood
Seeded on Wed Oct 24, 2007 2:23 PM EDT (The St Louis Post Dispatch)
The Colorado Rockies lifted the World Series to new heights this week — in elevation, if not TV ratings — and stirred a slumbering baseball city. And as the one David of October to emerge and face a Goliath, the Rockies also have spread hope to the masses.
Restoring Raymond Carver
Seeded on Wed Oct 17, 2007 11:07 AM EDT (The New York Times)
"There are always going to be readers who will feel that Gordon Lish did Raymond Carver a favor," Max Rudin said, "or at least worked the kind of editorial magic that he was supposed to, and others who disagree, who will feel that Lish hijacked the stories, cutting and shap …
The Denver Post - NLD-yes! Rockies enter postseason
Seeded on Tue Oct 2, 2007 1:17 PM EDT (The Denver Post)
A pitch-perfect game story on the one-game playoff at Coors Field, which was a pitch-perfect finish to Colorado's regular season.
Shattered Glass
Seeded on Wed Sep 19, 2007 10:04 PM EDT (The Latest From VanityFair.com)
Vanity Fair offers up a classic article, from September 1998, about The New Republic's hotshot writer Stephen Glass and the fabricated articles that propelled his meteoric rise in Washington.
Postscript: Glass' Shadow
Seeded on Wed Sep 19, 2007 9:53 PM EDT (The Latest From VanityFair.com)
How The New Republic continues to fall under scrutiny and cannot shake assumptions tied to Stephen Glass' escapades years ago.
Exorcising Katrina with Crayons
Seeded on Mon Sep 17, 2007 2:14 PM EDT (The New York Times)
How drawings that usually end up on the refrigerator door are revealing the lasting effects of Hurricane Katrina. Letting children's illustrations tell the ongoing story ...
At 25, 'McPaper' Is All Grown Up
Seeded on Mon Sep 17, 2007 2:00 PM EDT (The New York Times)
USA Today, which turned 25 on Saturday, still stands apart as a lighter and quicker read than most of its competitors.
'McPaper' still getting fat while its rivals suffer
Seeded on Mon Sep 17, 2007 1:57 PM EDT (Chicago Tribune)
They called it McPaper, the nation's newsletter, talked about it winning a prize for Best Investigative Paragraph. What it turned out to be was a new template for the newspaper industry in both style and substance, big on color, short on story length.
CENTER STAGE: Grady or Grandy?
Seeded on Sun Sep 16, 2007 3:01 PM EDT (The Detroit Free Press)
Two of the best teams in baseball also feature two of the most dynamic center fielders in the game. Cleveland's Grady Sizemore, at 25, is in the argument for the game's top all-around player and perhaps the most toolsy player in baseball's youth movement.
The Food on a Table at the Execution
Seeded on Sun Sep 16, 2007 12:53 AM EDT (The New York Times)
A classic Dave Anderson column, as The Times announces his retirement. This is from 1980 and the -- ahem -- firing of Dick Howser as manager of the New York Yankees. It ends classicly. No one has a stomach for what George Steinbrenner is serving.
Judge Keeps MLB Names Sealed
Seeded on Sun Sep 16, 2007 12:36 AM EDT (The San Francisco Chronicle)
A federal judge in New York has rebuffed The Chronicle's legal attempt to learn the names of as many as 23 major-league players who may have received banned drugs from a former New York Mets batboy who became a steroids dealer.
Wild for Winnetou
Seeded on Fri Sep 14, 2007 11:49 PM EDT (The New York Times)
A fascinating story about a German writer whose tall-tale stories created an Indian hero, fictionalized his own travels, and ended up starting a national fervor for the American Wild West and continues today ...
Endangered Species: High-Powered, Low-Whiff Sluggers
Seeded on Sat Sep 1, 2007 9:50 PM EDT (ESPN.com)
The concept of the contact-making slugger seems as far-fetched as baseball without Scott Boras, but there actually was a time when run producers weren't inclined to wrench their backs in pursuit of the big fly.
Rawlings' $400 Glove Story
Seeded on Fri Aug 24, 2007 12:22 PM EDT (CNN)
Finally a luxury model for the shortstop who wants to snare that scalded grounded by flashing the Italian leather.
Why We Compete: Money ("The Ultimate Game")
Seeded on Thu Aug 23, 2007 12:05 AM EDT (The Washington Post)
Another chapter in The Washington Post's compelling Why We Compete project. This chapter -- hinged on "money" as the motivation for competition -- details a $2-million golf tournament and two men with a plan to win it. One of the article's hooks:
Why We Compete: Opportunity
Seeded on Wed Aug 22, 2007 10:24 PM EDT (The Washington Post)
Another chapter in the Washington Post's project on Why We Compete. This one hops to American Somoa for a snapshot of the bridge football provides to the young men who seek a way "off this island".
Why We Compete: Curiosity
Seeded on Wed Aug 22, 2007 10:14 PM EDT (The Washington Post)
The first part of a Washington Post project that integrates thematic enterprise journalism with multimedia flair.
Harrah's to Tempt NBA, NHL to Vegas
Seeded on Wed Aug 22, 2007 4:24 PM EDT (ESPN.com)
The same group that brought David Beckham to Major League Soccer is linking arms with Harrah's to become the latest to try and lure professional sports to Las Vegas.
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