First, we bow to the achievement: It is really, really, really hard to go 0–16. The 1980 New Orleans Saints couldn’t do it and…
Here on Jackie Robinson’s birthday, wanted to repost this story I wrote a couple of years ago.
When Bobby Bragan was young, people used to call him “Nig.” He was of a darker complexion than most. He liked the nickname. Bobby Bragan grew up in Alabama. The only black people…
When I was a kid in Cleveland, there was an enormous Chief Wahoo sign on top of Cleveland Municipal Stadium. The sign was of Wahoo swinging the bat…
She is so scared. I can always tell when she’s scared; she has this look on her face, and it’s not so different from the…
Seth Wickersham’s excellent piece about the building feud between Patriots owner Robert Kraft, coach Bill Belichick and quarterback Tom Brady is one of the hotter things on the Internet now, for good reason. It offers great insight into how people wear on each other — it’s like one of…
Because this is a personal blog, I hope you will indulge me for a moment as I make what is, to me anyway, a very important…
As I do every year (for some reason), I am going through the entire Hall of Fame Ballot, writing about all 33 players…
