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Jay Cutler is People

Nick Bond

After last night's debacle in Green Bay, America was given the opportunity to continue one of its favorite past times: mocking Jay Cutler. But what does that say about us as sports fans, and more importantly, as individuals? 

Yakkin' About Mixed Martial Arts: The Bones Jones

Tomas Rios

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With the Jon "Bones" Jones fight only a week away, and an Anderson Silva-Stephan Bonnar fight coming up at UFC 153, MMA fans can anticipate a lot of ... something. Tim Marchman and Tomas Rios are sure of that, and also, what Dana White looks like teaching Boxercize classes. 

Yakkin' About Talking: Mike Francesa As A State of Mind

David Roth

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Mike Francesa is not just the most powerful and self-confident and ham-like personality in sports radio, although he is that. He's also a recognizably New York type, and a state of mind. So, yeah, definitely someone worth talking about.

Ray Allen Just Wants To Thank You

Noah Davis

It has become a crucial part of free agent etiquette and basic not-seeming-like-a-jerk PR: players leaving a longtime team take the time and spend the standard rates to take out a newspaper ad thanking the fans they're leaving behind. It's a nice enough idea, but where did it come from?

Star Wars Day at Sox Park

Dmitry Samarov

Most times, you go to a baseball game hoping to see something you've never seen before. But what happens if the game is sponsored by something you've been forced (pardon the pun) to see before and didn't really enjoy the first time? 

Consolation of van Persie

Fredorrarci

With his triumphs as a member of the Gunners behind him, incandescently brilliant striker Robin van Persie has begun a new life with a new team at Old Trafford. But that doesn't mean that the Gooners have forgotten about him or his silhouette. And that's not as weird as it sounds.

It Came From the Vault, #1 - Wrestlemania 13: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Heel

Nick Bond

In the first of a recurring series, our intrepid assistant editor Nick Bond takes a stroll down memory lane to see if he can find a way for WWE champion CM Punk to become the face of the company without losing his identity on the way there. 
 

Consider The Umpire

Matthew Callan

When the veteran American League ump Ron Luciano wrote The Umpire Strikes Back in 1982, it was a bestseller as a quintessential Dad Book: a safe, sports-y Father's Day gift. Thirty years later, and 17 years after Luciano died by his own hand, the book looks like something altogether stranger, sadder, and more interesting. This may be the saddest baseball book ever written.

The Tyranny of the Factoid

Noah Davis

There's a difference between information and data, at least as the two make themselves felt in televised sports. The former helps you understand what's happening on the court or field or floor, and why. The latter is a burped-up number or acronym, free of context or anything else. Both are a big part of watching sports on TV. The latter, sadly, seems to be winning.

The Importance of Being Right

Aaron Gordon

Arsenal hasn't made a big impact in the English Premier League in some time, but it is one of the most financially responsible and intelligently run teams in big-time sports. Which is nice, but can the Gunners keep going like this and hope to win big, again?