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David Roth

David Roth is an editor at The Classical, co-writes The Daily Fix blog-column at the Wall Street Journal, and writes "The Mercy Rule" column at Vice.com and a column that doesn't have its own name for Sports On Earth. He tweets, primarily about things he hates, @david_j_roth and almost never updates his blog.

May 2, 2013
Best American Sprotswriting, or Finding the Best Alternate Spelling for the Word "Sports" — The Clog

Crowdsourcing the answer to one of the more vexing questions for any writer. With a helpful infographic.
April 30, 2013
Why Chris Broussard's Opinion Doesn't Matter — The Clog

Chris Broussard is famous, and ESPN gives him a large megaphone; Tim Brando is less so. But their shared brand of cheap, not-all-that-righteous righteousness is entirely too dim, lazy and small to mean anything, no matter how easy it is hear their voices.
April 29, 2013
Lifting Weights

Veteran big man Jason Collins has come out as the NBA's first openly gay player, which is good for him and the game and those of us who care about it. He did it with all the invisible but palpable grace and modesty that has helped keep him in the league all these years.
April 22, 2013
Yakkin' About Baseball: Leveraging Jeffrey Loria's Personal Appeal

Coaches wearing mittens, Jeffrey Loria in a series of can't-miss television pilots, the Houston Astros in first place, and other April Baseball Things.
April 19, 2013
Art, Opening and In The Paint

In The Paint, an exhibition of basketball art produced by a lively, supportive community of artists, was supposed to open in Cambridge on Friday. With the city locked down and in fear, that's currently in doubt. But whenever it opens, In The Paint will be a good thing, and a reminder of some other good things in turn.
April 11, 2013
The Man Who Mistook Mitch McGary for Shaq, or Meet Your Classical Bracket Achievers Champion — The Clog

Joe Karas works in a laboratory in Boston and doesn't watch much college basketball. But he knew enough to dominate this year's Classical Bracket Achievers contest. Get to know your college hoops overlord.
April 9, 2013
Better Ingredients, Better Hangover: Checking In With Louisville Superfan Papa John Schnatter — The Clog

A lot of people were happy when Louisville won the NCAA Championship on Monday night. Some of those people presumably had some drinks to celebrate. Papa John Schnatter was one of them.
April 9, 2013
The Jeremy Lin Book Club

A little over a year after it took over New York and induced a month-long high-five orgy, we're still trying to figure out Linsanity. Robert Silverman and Jim Cavan, two of the authors of the new book "We'll Always Have Linsanity," may not quite have figured it out, but they did enjoy themselves (and learn some stuff) in the process of looking back.
April 8, 2013
Slurve On: Michael B. Dougherty On Leaving Political Journalism For Baseball — The Clog

Michael Brendan Dougherty has written about politics for a long time. Long enough that he's now decided he'd rather get up at 4am every day to write about baseball.
April 1, 2013
Yakkin' About Baseball: Lucas Duda and the Infinite Sadness

It's Opening Day: a day to summon hope where possible and delusion where necessary, bust on Shane Victorino out of reflex, and try not to make eye contact with the Arizona Diamondbacks. A hugely digressive and mostly useless season preview, in dialogue form.

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