In real life, Cole Hamels and Bryce Harper are just a couple of happy nu-bros living their dreams. But as recent events have taught us, sometimes being an idiot on the baseball field can be a lot more dangerous than looking like one off of it.
Warren Buffett and Bill Gates took on Ariel Hsing, a U.S. Olympic team member as part of Berkshire Hathaway's really, really fun shareholder's weekend.
In a bleak week for sports and in general, one moderately pudgy, very fired-up Grizzlies fan went from meme to life-affirming, objectively good emblem for everything we want, and sometimes get, from sports. Thank goodness.
Adam Yauch grew up in public as an artist and a person. He also grew into a pretty good filmmaker, and leaves behind a legitimately fascinating basketball documentary—and basketball document—alongside all those classic Beasties records.
With all due respect to Topps and them, Amelie Mancini makes the world's most interesting baseball cards. The French-born artist's hand-printed cards—dedicated to baseball's victims of weird injuries and ill-advised facial hair—are unlike any other. On the occasion of the debut of her new set, "Marvelous Mustaches," we talked baseball, and baseball cards.
A different, and marginally more positive take, on the new Brooklyn Nets logo, from a professor of graphic design. "More positive" in the sense that both "Poochie" and artisanal pickles are invoked.
The Dodgers are in first place and have new ownership. The Lakers, Clippers, and Kings are all in the playoffs, and all leading their respective series. What the hell's going on in L.A.?
It's May Day everywhere, which means that the weather's fairly nice, and that some people are in the streets making themselves heard, while others are running around and breaking things. In Seattle, this proved to be bad news for Niketown.
