Articles

On Rainier Beach

Joseph Swide

Rainier Beach is a shrinking public high school in an unglamorous and gentrification-squeezed part of Seattle. It has a droput rate around 40% and one of the very best basketball teams in the nation. A dispatch from one of the more unlikely dynasties in high school sports.

Tyreke Evans Is Getting Away With It

Michael Pina

He can't shoot, not even a little bit. He's a recent Rookie of the Year who is making a living as a sixth man at the age of 24. And yet Tyreke Evans, flaws and all, is still making it happen, and maybe playing better than he ever has.

The Two Towers That Weren't

Ben Lyon

For a brief and dazzling period in 1994, the Washington Bullets employed both Manute Bol and George Muresan. The dual giant frontcourt could have been beautiful, but it wasn't nearly long enough.

Writing For Money: Talking About Beacon Reader with Jack Moore and Brian Blickenstaff

David Roth

Two friends of The Classical have joined up with a very promising and mildly revolutionary new online publishing concern. If you care about reading good things written by good writers, you will probably be interested in why.

Yakkin' About Baseball: One Last Derek Jeter Gift Basket

David Roth

 et al.

A frank discussion of The Captain, in preparation for what will probably be a less-frank year-long discussion of The Captain. By "frank" we mean mostly goofy ad hominem jokes.

Michael Sam, Out Of Missouri

Casey Morell

In Columbia, Missouri, fans are proud of Michael Sam and happy to be at the center of an important moment in sports. But there, and everywhere else, this story is just getting started, and there's more work to be done.

What We Talk About When We Talk About Sochi

Robert Silverman

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A frank conversation about Sochi's extravagantly and ridiculously messed-up facilities and logistics, and the numerous and more egregiously messed-up things that explain those more cosmetic problems, and how we talk about all of it.

From The Elbow: On Jason Williams' Greatest Pass

Ian Levy

It's tough to say that any one pass, among the many in any NBA game, could qualify as seminal. But Jason Williams' canonic off-the-elbow pass in the 2000 Rookie Challenge is not like other passes.

Friendly, Rivalry: Yakkin' About Cal and Stanford and The Stanford And Cal Thing

Patrick Redford

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On Mike Mongtomery, and cultural differences, and a general decline in caring about things as reflected in a particular PAC-12 college basketball game. Also pizza.

The Bob Costas Slopestyle Media Style Guide: Sochi Olympics Edition

Matt Reevy

Earlier this year, on the “Today” show, Bob Costas opined that Slopestyle, the Winter Olympic’s newest event, was “just Jackass stuff they invented and called Olympic sports. This was interesting, insofar as Bobby C is the host of NBC’s Olympic broadcast, and it will thus fall on him to explain the ins and outs of Slopestyle to the great unwashed. And so, as a public service, the first edition of the Bob Costas Slopestyle Media Style Guide was born.