Fantastic article about Bill Simmons and what comes with being the nation's top sportswriter.

Really fascinating story about high school athletics in Miami.

Dan is totally crazy but in a way I have go to admire. 10,000 hours to becoming a pro golfer would be a pretty stellar accomplishment.

"Those game logs, analyzed by The New York Times, strongly indicate that gamers took their cues from the fortunes of teams and players."

"With 22 tickets available at that price, the total to buy them would have been $2.42, though service and delivery fees would have increased the total purchase to a whopping $12.37."

An interview with Ron Artest.

A team impersonated the Togo national soccer team.

Great story about ferret leggers.

Would-be draftee Tony Washington's NFL future is being derailed by his sad past.

“We forgive and forget,” Radebe said. “You’ve got to live in the world and you want to do it in peace. Mandela said we had to tolerate each other. Somebody has to give in so we can make our way forward. Sport has the power to unite people and change individuals.”

"Let us all just hope everybody feels better in the morning. Some morning, someday."

A bit of insight into Mariano Rivera and what makes him tick.

"The fallacy is that you're searching for a theory in a pile of data, rather than forming a theory and running an experiment to support or disprove it."

Great piece of reporting detailing how the Big 12 survived as a football and athletic powerhouse.

Summarizing how so much of the current LA Lakers roster is connected to the trade made years ago for Shaq.

Flyod Landis admitted his doping during his professional cycling career. He's also trying to implicate other top American cyclists.

"Twenty years ago, he was guaranteed to be one of the greatest quarterbacks ever to play the game of football. Engineered to be. He was drafted ahead of Brett Favre. Today he's a recovering junkie. Scenes from the chaotic life of a boy never designed to be a man in the 2010 National Magazine Award winner for profile writing."