June 2012
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Change Is Inevitable: Ohio State's Offenses... →
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A sportswriter is entombed in a prolonged boyhood.
– Jimmy Cannon
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Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until...
– Mike Myers
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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far...
– Footnote 1: Thomas Wolfe, “God’s Lonely Man,” in The Hills Beyond (New York: Plume/New American Library, 1982), 146, 148.)
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Life is sometimes hard. Things go wrong, in life and in love and in business and...
– Neil Gaiman
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So far this my favorite part of Frank Deford’s new book:
“… In this country, when you’re so damn young and impressionable, it’s especially exhilarating, playing for your school, with the pretty cheerleaders jumping up and down and fans yelling for you. Young tits and the roar of the crowd - all your life, you might never beat that.
There’s some room for...
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Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be...
– Mark Twain
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The Simpsons Archive: The Brain Speaks →
This apparent compilation of all of Homer’s interactions with his brain is my new favorite web page
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The nonexistent intersection of the NFL's... →
Chuck Klosterman explains football’s danger doesn’t threaten its popularity because the two are not intertwined – even though it seems they should be.
I tend to agree.
Bonus points for the obvious-yet-often-overlooked comparison (actually, lack thereof) between football and boxing. The continued existence of the latter would seem to remove any doubt the former will live on despite...