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Sure, he's winning now. But the new cult hero is still a mediocre quarterback -- and a thoroughly obnoxious person
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The shame of Penn State
The university buried a child sex scandal for years. And rioting students dare blame the media?
Friday, Nov 11, 2011 1:00 AM UTC 171Life College Football, Joe Paterno
Why college football is better than the pros
Saturday's game between top-ranked LSU and Alabama is another reminder that the best games are played on campus
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Exonerating Bill Buckner
25 years after the Red Sox infielder's infamous World Series error, we look at what really happened that October
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When Sin City ruled college basketball
A new documentary explains how one man helped transform Las Vegas from a sports desert into a glittering oasis
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A great American crime writer remakes himself
Barry Gifford is known for his noir fiction -- but his more recent work is full of unexpected, brilliant surprises
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Paul McCartney: A biographer’s nightmare
A new book proves how difficult it is to turn the Beatle's life into the stuff of compelling storytelling
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Mickey Mantle: From golden god to alcoholic wreck
"The Last Boy" goes further than any biography yet in capturing the baseball legend -- and the mess he became
Friday, Oct 8, 2010 4:01 PM UTC 17Entertainment Baseball, Our Picks, Books
Andrew Morton’s “Angelina”: The worst book of the decade
Andrew Morton's new biography of the movie star is ill-informed, moralistic and just plain mean
Wednesday, Aug 11, 2010 8:30 PM UTC 30Entertainment Biography, Celebrity, Nonfiction
The unpopular case for A-Rod’s brilliance
As the Yankees slugger closes in on 600 home runs, it's time to admit he's one of the greatest in baseball history
Friday, Jul 23, 2010 8:05 PM UTC 33Life Baseball
It’s the Year of the Pitcher! Wait, is it really?
Baseball pundits proclaim the end of an era dominated by heavy sluggers, but I'm not so sure
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“Hitch-22″: Christopher Hitchens’ name-dropping charade
Despite same-sex titillations, "Hitch-22" is an arrogant justification of the atheist's complicity in the Iraq war
Tuesday, Jun 1, 2010 3:22 PM UTC 93Entertainment Memoirs, Iraq war
Canada wins!
A game of smash mouth, and the country with the most at stake saves face
Monday, Mar 1, 2010 2:02 PM UTC 61Life
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Sarcasm! Shatner! A parade of giant beavers! Vancouver closes the Winter Olympics in appropriate style
Monday, Mar 1, 2010 1:02 PM UTC 37Life Winter Olympics 2010
What should I read next?
Aleksandar Hemon's fictional alter ego drinks and writes his way through exile in these superb coming-of-age tales.
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The dirt on A-Rod
A controversial new biography collects just about every rumor and bad story ever told about baseball icon Alex Rodriguez. But who leaked his drug tests, and what do they mean, anyway?
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Flannery O'Connor wrote two novels and died young, but her influence has been vast. Why has it taken half a century for her to get a definitive biography?
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Secrets and lives
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