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Hearing the Spurs
As I age, my ear is retuning itself; I can finally hear something other than “ugh” watching the San Antonio Spurs play, which is cool, except how it parallels suddenly finding a 'Rod Stewart Sings the Standards' record soulful and great. Full story
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Pigeon Racing Is a Dying Sport in Canada
We hung out with one of Toronto's finest pigeon racers to find out why anyone would want to pigeon race. Full story
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Anna Krien Explores the Dark Side of Australian Football Culture
Anna Krien's book Night Games is primarily about a rape trial of a footballer, and in it somehow Krien manages to pry open a world of tacky nightclubs, gangbangs, and locker-room jokes, by first of all admitting how lost she is in it herself. Full story
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The Leafs Are Overachievers
Despite saying the Bruins would win this series easily, Angry Hockey Nerd is back with his foot in his mouth. Full story
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Leave Derrick Rose Alone
Derrick Rose, who won an MVP award in 2011 then wrecked his ACL and has been out for a year, has spent the last week getting kicked around by tough-guy sportswriters outraged that he's not back on the floor in his Chicago Bulls' series against the Miami Heat. He refuses to engage… Full story
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That Kiss Cam Viral Video: Staged or Real?
I was conflicted about this video for hours. All day, thoughts of it were consuming me: Staged or real? Staged or real? Staged or real? I couldn't eat. I couldn't think. Nothing made sense to me anymore. I looked outside my window and watched children playing. Staged or real? Full story
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Children's Go-Kart Racing Is Decadent and Depraved
The Malibu Grand Prix is where weekend dads take their biological sons to kill just enough time to reassure themselves that they still have a say in their child’s development. However, each dead-eyed soul in that cavern knew no amount of air hockey could replace a nuclear family… Full story
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No Embellishment: Canucks Fandom Sucks
It wasn’t long ago that the Vancouver Canucks steamrolled the entire league on route to a President’s Trophy and the Stanley Cup Finals. The team fell a game short, the city briefly burned, and things haven’t quite been the same since. Full story
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The Kentucky Derby... On Acid!
We could barely catch a glimpse of the horses as they pounded past on the wet earth. She had this terrifyingly blank look on her face, and she said, “The ground was shaking underneath me... so this little courtyard here suddenly became the ocean, and I was floating in it.” Full story
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'Class A - Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere,' an Excerpt
Lucas Mann had dreams of becoming a big leaguer. Captain of his high school baseball team, Lucas could throw a decent fastball. But instead of going pro, he opted to get a taste of how the boys of summer roll by embedding with the Clinton, Iowa, LumberKings, a single-A, minor lea… Full story
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Combat Juggling Is the Sport of Kings
Jason Garfield entered the juggling industry when he was 11, and went on to revolutionize juggling as we know it by turning it into a brutal combat sport played only by the truest warriors. You are not man enough for combat juggling. Full story
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Skateboarding's Most Violent Team Manager Has Mellowed Out
Deluxe Distribution's Mic-e Reyes has never kicked anyone off his team for smoking pot, but he has kicked a lot of ass over the years. Full story
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Joe Johnson Is Very Big in China: A Love Story
By day, Yonsan Johnson is an electrical engineer who ekes out the equivalent of $2,400 a year in a factory in northern China. By night, though, he manages the Chinese Joe Johnson Fan Club, and he has accumulated and edited what is likely the world’s largest cache of Joe Johnson-r… Full story
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The Bruins Will Beat the Leafs Because They’re Better
It's really not about who's tougher, it's about who's better. And the Bruins are better. Full story
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Fightland Meets - Ottavia Bourdain
We followed MMA lover, writer, and dedicated Brazilian jiu-jitsu student Ottavia Bourdain for a while to see what life is like when you have a fighter in the family. Her husband, Anthony, is that funny-talking, cigarette-smoking food guy from TV, and he was around for all this to… Full story