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Speak, Sega: (Mis)Remembering Pat Summerall

Jeb Lund

Pat Summerall was what football sounded like for a few generations of people. So it makes sense to imagine his voice where it doesn't strictly belong. Just because it wasn't Summerall breaking it down in Joe Montana Sports Talk Football 2 doesn't mean it couldn't or shouldn't have been.

What We Talk About When We Talk About Colin Cowherd

Colin McGowan

It's comforting to see ESPN's Colin Cowherd as a mutant, mainly because he acts like one. But he's also an incarnation of a whole horrible and highly successful way of thinking, talking, and yelling about sports. None of it is good, but the last bit's worse.

The Home Team

Bryan Joiner

The Brooklyn Nets are not a great team, or even a greatly likable team. But for a fan who waited his whole life for a true home team, they're more than enough.

On Monday, In Boston

Kevin Koczwara

Everyone felt the same sadness and horror on Marathon Monday. But for reasons obvious and less-obvious, it all feels very different when you're from there.

Racing

Mike Piellucci

On not being there, and knowing and not wanting to know, and some other responses evoked by the horror at the Boston Marathon.

After Jeremy

Salomon Fuentes

Jeremy Lin has proven that he belongs in the NBA. But what does the greatest Asian-American basketball player of all time mean to Asian-American basketball players, and Asian-American hoops culture?

Listening to The Masters

Anthony Kim

More than perhaps any other sport on television, golf is a visual experience. It's the same way on an actual course. So why would there even be a radio broadcast of the Masters? And who would've imagined that it would be so illuminating and even fun to listen to?

Viva Azteca: Yakkin' About Soccer's Strangest, Scariest Stadium

Aaron Gordon

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Estadio Azteca is one of the stranger, better and more terrifying places on earth to watch a soccer game. And maybe to watch anything, actually. Two Azteca veterans compare notes on one of soccer's holy, and wholly weird, sites.

Change This Face: Towards Being A Better Fan

Colin McGowan

Being a sports fan is a passive thing, and can be a frustrating one. But it shouldn't make us smaller, less happy and less generous than we'd otherwise be. So let's stop letting it do that.

The Amen Shot: Bubba's Big Masters Moment

Edward Helfers

Bubba Watson's miracle hook shot at last year's Masters was definitely worthy of its Shot of the Year recognition. But how exactly did he do it?  Needless to say: it's complicated.