The Clog

April 3, 2012 10:16 AM

David Roth

Saying Goodbye To "Bad Spring Training Twitpics"

Spring Training is almost over, and the internet's foremost tumblr'ed repository of awful Spring Training art—Patrick Sullivan's Bad Spring Training Twitpics—is pretty well gone, too. In conversation, Sullivan remembers good times and terrible photos.

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April 2, 2012 03:19 PM

Eric Nusbaum

Is Jim Tracy Mad? Jim Tracy is Very Mad

When Rockies manager Jim Tracy tried to work himself up into a rage over the Ubaldo Jimenez-Troy Tulowitzki fracas for the media, he betrayed his most charming verbal tick.

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April 2, 2012 09:35 AM

Eric Freeman

This Week in Mario Balotelli: The Sacred As the Profane

In which our hero scores a really amazing goal and people trump up a controversy instead.

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March 30, 2012 06:02 PM

David Roth

Congratulations to the Official Garbage Food of the Final Four!

An in-depth non-conversation with a semi-celebrity, on occasion of (almost) talking to Mario Lopez about the ultimate Final Four garbage food.

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March 30, 2012 03:07 PM

Brendan Flynn

Four To Watch Out For: Michael Kidd-Gilchrist's Grace

In anticipation of the Final Four, we're highlighting four players whose very presence on the court is a reason to watch. In the last of the mini-series, we check in with the uniquely graceful, un-angry and great Michael Kidd-Gilchrist.

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March 30, 2012 11:31 AM

David Matthews

Four To Watch Out For: Aaron Craft, Helper

In anticipation of the Final Four, we're highlighting four players whose very presence on the court is a reason to watch. In this installment, we survey Ohio State guard's Aaron Craft's ability to turn annoyance into something like art.

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March 30, 2012 10:23 AM

Joshua Lars Weill

Four To Watch Out For: Thomas Robinson, Long-Awaited

In anticipation of the Final Four, we're highlighting four players whose very presence on the court is a reason to watch. Here, we salute Thomas Robinson's unique combination of patience and passion.

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March 30, 2012 09:21 AM

Ryan O'Hanlon

Four To Watch Out For: Russ Smith, Pinball Wizard

In anticipation of the Final Four, we're highlighting four players whose very presence on the court is a reason to watch. The first of these is Russ Smith, human pinball/ulcer-generation machine/personification of college kid exuberance.

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March 29, 2012 02:58 PM

Eric Nusbaum

"So a German Sports Team Walks Into a Death Camp..."

The debate over whether the German soccer team should visit Auschwitz this summer has devolved into an absurd comedy of manners.

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March 29, 2012 10:34 AM

Eric Nusbaum

Marshawn Lynch is in a Movie but His True Passion is the Stage

Marshawn Lynch is playing a mafia security guard in a Seattle-produced movie. Like Dennis Haysbert, Val Kilmer, and various other actors in HEAT, he is going to get smoked during a bank robbery.

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