So back when some guy named Greg Ball was running for New York State Senate, I paid close attention. Not only was the man shooting for the spot that represents my ol’ home turf of Putnam County, but he was a combative, vindictive, racist, asshole pig of the first degree.

Manny Ramirez officially retired today. He clearly didn’t want to retire, but did so after apparently testing positive yet again for a banned substance. Were he to stick around, Ramirez would have been forced to endure a 100-game suspension. When I was covering baseball for Sports Illustrated back in the

Mike Lewis is one of the good friends. He’s a writer for the newspaper down in Daytona Beach, as well as one of the most passionate scribes I know. He wrote this last night for his excellent blog, which you can get to here. Because we’re friends, and because he

http://www.americanidol.com/swf/videoPlayer/widget/v2r1/Widget.swf It’s impossible to write about American Idol and sound cool. Let’s be honest—it’s a shockingly un-cool show, one that brings together bored grandmothers and untarnished 13-year olds with nothing else to do on a Wednesday night. But, be that as it may, I love it. This year, I’m rooting

So, like many Americans, I wear jeans a dizzying number of times before washing them. Seven … eight … 10 … 20. On and on. I establish favorite pairs, dig them out of laundry baskets, discard small stains and smudges. It is what it is. Finally, however, I decided to

Was teaching at Manhattanville tonight. Enter the men’s restroom—saw this. Can someone please tell me what sort of human doesn’t remove his ass-cheek paper from the toilet seat? Who thinks, “Eh, I’ll just leave it for the next dude?” Gross. Not as gross as a dead mouse in an ice

So this is really gross. Was just in an ice cream shop, Last Licks, in Rye Brook, N.Y. I come here, to this little strip shopping center, in between teaching my classes at Manhattanville. I write in Starbucks, dine at Chipotle, and sometimes get a $1.50 bag of varied candy

Two days ago, before Virginia Commonwealth University announced that Shaka Smart had signed an eight-year contract to return as the school’s head basketball coach, this column was intended to beg the man to stay in Richmond. I was going to talk about loyalty. About building a program from scratch, as

I’ve received many brilliant posts and comments over the three years of jeffpearlman.com, but this, delivered by Kirk, may well be my absolute all-time favorite. Not to hijack the whole Ivy league debate, but I watched this episode last night (wife made me- honest). These two are attention whoring, elitist