So a few minutes ago I was scrolling through my Twitter feed, reading before bed, when I came upon this gem of a story. Yes, you can purchase a glow-in-the-dark dino dick. I suppose the dino dick was designed to be a dino sex toy. But, like many random things
Today is the anniversary of the helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant and his daughter, Gianna. It is also the anniversary of the deaths of seven others. John Altobelli. Keri Altobelli. Alyssa Altobelli. Sarah Chester. Payton Chester. Christina Mauser. Ara Zobayan. I was thinking about this last night; about the
So yesterday I was DMing with a young journalist who told me he was in elementary school when my John Rocker piece ran in Sports Illustrated. Ugh. Ugggggghhhh. Uggggggghhhhhh. Aging is a trip, and until you start aging (which I define as clearing 35) you’re relatively unaware of its car
When it comes to sports, my brain is wired in weird and quirky ways. I don’t remember numbers as numbers—I remember numbers as uniform digits. So 243319 isn’t 243319—it’s Freeman McNeil with the Jets, Ken Griffey, Sr. with the Yankees, Tony Gwynn as a Padre . I don’t think of
So over the past few months I’ve written three guest pieces for Deadspin. Generally, the world has shrugged. Because, hey, who cares if Jeff Pearlman (or Jeff Anyone) is writing anywhere? In a few cases, however, folks have expressed some irritated surprise. “Deadspin? After the way things went down? After
So a few hours ago I was reading this excellent Hank Aaron ode from Bradford William Davis, columnist for the New York Daily News. And midway through the piece, he alluded to a Tweet from Chipper Jones, longtime Braves third baseman and relatively new (and deserved) inductee into the Baseball
The immortal Hank Aaron died earlier today, and I find myself thinking of Barry Bonds. Which is a little bit of a bummer, but also worth discussing. On Aug. 7, 2007, I was in attendance at a standing-room-only Pac Bell Park when Bonds hit his 756th career homer off of
The past two days have been blissful. Trump is gone. The Biden administration is here. Adults are working once again in government. The media is no longer being savaged by the White House. Truly, bliss. But my visit to Happy Island was briefly interrupted by the misfortune of seeing this
Eric Bieniemy was a tremendous college football player at Colorado. Eric Bieniemy spent nine years as an NFL halfback. Eric Bieniemy coached running backs at Colorado. Then at UCLA Then with the Minnesota Vikings. In 2010 he became the Vikings assistant head coach. Then he returned to Colorado as offensive
Earlier today Jen Psaki, the new White House press secretary, held her first session and began with this: “I have deep respect for the role of a free and independent press in our democracy and for the role all of you play.” She then answered questions, and promised another briefing