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Last night’s epic Phillies-Rockies NLDS game which Philadelphia won 6-5 began way, way too late for east coast viewers. The 10:07 p.m. Eastern start time meant that the game didn’t end until nearly quarter after two in the morning — criminally unfair for Phillies fans. The mostly explicit reason: TBS wanting to air the Yankees-Twins [...]

I used to love the Olympics. Really I did. Even the patriotic schmaltz-fest that was the ’96 Games in Atlanta holds a special place in my heart (watching the Men’s Gymnastics finals, some friends and I put together our own version of a mixed-media relay … I’ll save that story for another time). So it [...]

Score one for the U.S. against Brazil. After the G-8 summit, Lula made a show of presenting Obama with an autographed  Brazil jersey.  Kind of a fun, professional way of being annoying.  Not to be outdone: As the two leaders wrapped up their bilateral talks today, Lula had already taken out his earpiece providing interpretation [...]

Our enthusiasm for the sport aside, this seems to go beyond even the 1919 Black Sox Scandal: Football is being used as a vehicle for money laundering, according to an agency responsible for tracking the proceeds of crime. The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) report warns football is at risk from criminals buying clubs, transferring [...]

A strange, bizarre, and yet somehow pedantic rant from the increasingly irrelevant American far right: … thankfully, Americans are not buying it. In spite of the fact that one can drive by an open field on Saturdays and usually see it filled with young boys and girls playing soccer, the game’s popularity has not moved [...]

Bite it, NCAA Bracketer-In-Chief. You, too, Kornacki: The president’s two first round “upset” picks really don’t amount to much. He has the 11th-seeded Temple Owls, a streaking squad that won last weekend’s Atlantic-10 tournament, knocking off Arizona State, a team whose down-the-stretch underachievement culminated in an embarrassing Pac-10 title game loss to USC (a team [...]

And now you know: No photos in the club enable most of the athletes to relax a little more. And autograph-seekers and fanboys are less inclined to bother them at a strip club. (Thanks, Deadspin)

[We pause momentarily from our election coverage to remind America that, yes, there's life outside of the campaigns.] For years now, I’ve been having a running argument about the value of stretching before exercise. I grew up with a highly regimented (and very traditional) exercise routine that invariably followed the pattern of stretching followed by [...]

There were like literally two million men on the street and you pick this guy to interview? Astonishing: Fans here had waited 25 years for a championship parade down Broad Street. The Phillies gave them one Friday, and so many fans showed up that they nearly shut down the city. . . . The parade [...]

I was outside in the parking lot watching this on the screens the Phillies set up for fans who didn’t have tickets to the rally inside the stadium: 1) As you can tell by the YouTube, this basically summed up the mood of the day. 2) This was one of the ten to fifteen best [...]