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Out With The Crowd: “Hey, hey, he was framed!”
April 22, 2013 – 5:06 AM | 2 Comments
Out With The Crowd: “Hey, hey, he was framed!”

The Milwaukee Brewers didn’t get off to a great start in 2013. That plus the PED-shaped cloud that continues to follow their biggest star around meant I was eager to get a Crew fan’s take …

Out With The Crowd: “That one stung”
April 4, 2013 – 9:11 AM | 2 Comments
Out With The Crowd: “That one stung”

Mets fans know a fellow terrible team when we see it — and the Astros are shaping up to be a legendarily awful club in 2013. But not according to John Yarbrough, a lifetime fan …

Are We Penn State
November 12, 2011 – 9:33 AM | 80 Comments
Are We Penn State

Then it took a week and a half before the graduate assistant was asked to tell his story to Curley and Gary Schultz, who oversaw the Penn State University police department. And then, the grand …

The Vine: July 29, 2011
July 29, 2011 – 10:41 AM | 68 Comments
The Vine: July 29, 2011

Sars,
I need recommendations for podcasts. I’ve started a new job recently, and it is boring beyond belief. That’s fine. It’s temporary. That being said, I need listening material. It needs to be light enough to …

The Sports Gack
June 7, 2011 – 7:20 PM | 34 Comments
The Sports Gack

Times scribe Jonathan Mahler freezes my distaste for Bill Simmons in carbonite — SEE WHAT I DID THERE?! — in just three grafs

The Squared Up Podcast, Episode 1: Pith Fail
November 23, 2010 – 9:23 AM | 4 Comments
The Squared Up Podcast, Episode 1: Pith Fail

It didn’t feel like an hour, but that’s how long inaugural guest Couch Baron and I blathered on about baseball in the first episode of The Squared Up Podcast. I’ll have a better handle on …

The Vine, Anniversary Edition: April 29, 2010
April 29, 2010 – 3:41 PM | 80 Comments
The Vine, Anniversary Edition: April 29, 2010

Dear Sars,
Would love a little help figuring out what the heck I am remembering here.
It’s something I saw as a kid in the mid-to-late eighties on a children’s program. I’m pretty sure it was a …