What’s in a Name, or A Rose is a Rose is a Rose
Fiction author Peter Markus on Pete Rose, and that which lies within a name.
Make Opening Day a National Holiday!
The greatest idea ever was recently proposed on whitehouse.gov: Make Opening Day a National Holiday.
The Insufferable Scorecard of Tiger Woods
Here’s a list of things I would rather see than Tiger not win anything: The Los Angeles Lakers try to play basketball. Golf. Hot dogs. Oatmeal cooking on a campfire stove. A water fountain that doesn’t work. A frog doing the throat inflation thingy. Paper. An organ that plays itself. Shoes.
Sochi Apocalypse
Horace Smith believes there should be a new test for the Winter Olympics. The locations should be cold enough to spur the desire to consume massive amounts of alcohol.
Open Letter to Alex Rodriguez
It goes without saying that we’d all be a lot better off had you just accepted your punishment the first time around, instead of continuing to deny, deny, deny, even as the evidence mounted up. Instead, you dragged us through your pity party, and rather than ask for forgiveness, you played the victim. Not very baseball-y of you, A-Rod.
What I Learned From Not Watching the Super Bowl
Horace Smith didn’t watch the Super Bowl but he learned more on a Sunday night than we did by watching it.
VIDEO: NFC Championship Game Gets the Taiwanese Animation Treatment
You haven’t seen a preview of the NFC Championship game between the San Francisco 49ers and Seattle Seahawks until you’ve seen in it Taiwanese animation form.
Breaking Bad: Football’s Power Overdose
Horace Smith believes with football’s power comes great responsibility – but instead of embracing that responsibility, football has collapsed inward and upon itself.