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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.
March 26, 2013
Yakkin' About Florida Gulf Coast University: The Movie — The Clog

The very term "Cinderella Team" is a reminder of the cinematic aspect that's inherent to NCAA Tournament upstarts. But in the case of Florida Gulf Coast University, an epic upstart with a beachfront location, casting the movie adaptation is almost too easy. The hard part is traveling back in time to 1985 to make it.
March 25, 2013
Time Traveling with Doug Gottlieb — The Clog

In loving memory of the strange, short-lived ghost Twitter feed of supremely opinionated CBS Sports basketball commentator Doug Gottlieb. File under: MAJOR SCOOPS.
March 21, 2013
...Like a Dolphin Needs a Helmet — The Clog

There's no real reason why the dolphin in the Miami Dolphins logo needed to be wearing a football helmet. But that doesn't mean there's a reason for the Dolphins' new logo to take that helmet off. Will no one think of the aquatic mammals?
March 21, 2013
Our Giant: Yakkin' About Sim Bhullar, Doleful March Madness Galoot

Sim Bhullar is 20 years old, 7-5, 355 pounds and plays with a unique and persistent sleepiness. He is maybe the weirdest and certainly one of the most bizarrely watchable players in the NCAA Tournament. In short, he's someone worth talking about.
March 18, 2013
Prognostication Station: Classical Bracket Achievers Is Back — The Clog

Join us, won't you, in the annual college basketball-related bracket humiliation ritual? You just might learn something about the limits of your knowledge and the futility of information in the face of college basketball-related randomness. But, like, in a fun way.
March 7, 2013
Yakkin' About Baseball: Kirk Gibson Will Arm You In Your Sleep

Getting loose, jogging through some desultory in-game outfield sprints, finding our arm slots and feeling raw terror at the prospect of a well-armed and irked Kirk "Ted Nugent Is A Friend" Gibson. Spring Training is a time for figuring things out.
March 4, 2013
11 Classic Passages From a Bleacher Report Founder's Open Email to the Haters (SLIDESHOW) — The Clog

In tribute to the huffy but unassailable nihilism of Bleacher Report co-founder Bryan Goldberg's open letter to the haters, we offer a slideshow of that email's proudest moments, with appropriate images.
February 28, 2013
Yakkin' About Fashion: If The Shorts Are Too Loud, You're Too Old — The Clog

Getting to yes with the assaultive but oddly charming Energy Drink Tie-Dye uniforms that Adidas unveiled for the NCAA Tournament.

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