Several weeks ago, my friend–who lives in Brooklyn–called me to report a somewhat disheartening experience. Crossing the street to coo at what she called a “perfect” English bulldog puppy, my friend was quickly rebuked by its paranoid owner, who, picking up her prized specimen in haste, muttered a hurtful accusation under her breath: “dog stalker.” [...]
Thursday, February 2, 2012 By Jordan Iserson
10.) Which team has more momentum? The New York Giants have won five games in a row, including their final two regular season games just to get a playoff berth. After dominating the Atlanta Falcons in the first round of the playoffs, the Giants took down the top two seeds in the NFC, on the [...]
Friday, December 16, 2011 By Jordan Iserson
With 2011 coming to a close, it’s an appropriate time to look back at the year in sports and reflect on what we’ve seen. The following is a list of the top 10 moments of the year. Now I realize there might be certain sports missing from this list. Well, I admit that I’m biased. [...]
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 By Jordan Iserson
Football is as much a part of Thanksgiving as turkey and awkward family moments. Unfortunately, the two teams required by the 28th Amendment to host games on Thanksgiving, the Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys, haven’t provided too many memorable match-ups in recent history. But this Thanksgiving, five out of the six teams in action are [...]
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 By Jules Miller
The annual Emma Crawford Festival and Coffin Races in Manitou Springs is certainly one of the oddest celebrations in the country. Held each October in Manitou Springs, Colorado (a small town of about 5,000 outside Colorado Springs), this one-day event honors the passing of the town’s most famous former resident, Emma Crawford. Emma Crawford was [...]
Friday, October 7, 2011 By Jordan Iserson
It’s been nearly a decade since the 2002 season, the year that author Michael Lewis wrote about Oakland Athletics’ General Manger Billy Beane and his strategy to find overlooked and undervalued players to fill voids in the A’s low-payroll roster. The concepts in Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game have become a lightning [...]
Friday, September 30, 2011 By Alexa Dooseman
Yes. You read that title correctly. This means that a. there is a sport called wife carrying and b. it is so popular that North America gets its own championship. True and true. The North American Wife Carrying Championship takes place every fall at idyllic Sunday River Resort in Newry, Maine. This year’s festivities take place [...]
Friday, September 30, 2011 By Jordan Iserson
September 28, 2011 will go down as one of the craziest nights of baseball in the game’s rich history. Four teams were competing for two playoff spots. The Atlanta Braves and the Boston Red Sox were trying to avoid the biggest September collapses in baseball history. The St. Louis Cardinals and Tampa Bay Rays, who [...]
Tuesday, September 20, 2011 By Alexa Dooseman
Welcome to the inaugural post of the Unusual Events series, a column that aims to find the most unique/strangest/silliest events taking place around the world. We hope that through this column, and its partner, Bands with Unusual Names, you will be introduced to artists and events that you’ve never heard of. I know that our [...]
Thursday, September 8, 2011 By Jordan Iserson
The dreaded lockout that threatened to shorten the NFL season ended without any significant damage. The owners and players reached a deal in late July, after nearly 5 months of heated negotiations to preserve the entire 2011 regular season. Now, after all of the lockout drama and an incredibly boring preseason, the 2011 NFL season [...]
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