Posts by Hua Hsu
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![Cristiano Ronaldo]()
The Alien Has Landed
Triumphant but tamed, Ronaldo returns to Old Trafford.
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In Memoriam: The Ignorant, Brilliant, Brutal Tim Dog
I listen to Penicillin on Wax, a profoundly ignorant, 22-year-old album about how much Bronx rapper Tim Dog hates Compton, more often than is probably suitable for someone with a wife, an actual dog, proper adult responsibilities, and no real feelings of ill will toward N.W.A., Compton, the West Coast, the Raiders, or the Teenage […]
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A Brief History of NBA All-Star Weekend Weirdness, As Told by YouTube
There’s no greater celebration of what professional basketball has become than All-Star Weekend. There will be some fierce dunks, canny dribbling, and face-melting passes, sure, but I’m mostly talking about the spectacle, the off-court everything else, all the new sneaker prototypes and fiber technologies that will be debuted, the trumped-up drama-turned-actual-drama of the 3-point contest, […]
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‘We’ll Build That Sucker’
From David Dixon to Drew Brees, a cultural history of the Superdome, the site of Super Bowl XLVII.
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Ma$e, Cookies, and Pain: Total Devastation for a Niners Fan at the Super Bowl
It all started with Ma$e. I had just taken my seat on my flight from Atlanta to New Orleans, one of the few Niners fans on a plane where anyone wearing Ravens gear had been given a complimentary drink ticket, when a man wearing a red leather jacket and a different shade of red jeans […]
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![Dimitar Berbatov]()
Mercurial Vapor
Fernando Torres and Dimitar Berbatov, the EPL’s hot and cold strikers.
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We Will Remember 2012 As the Year Data Reigned
It was the year a man became very famous for possessing an unshakable belief in math and basic reasoning skills. This probably says less about Nate Silver and more about the small armies of Silver skeptics, gut-driven intuitionists uninterested in parsing the differences between probability and prediction, correlation and causation. But in the weeks leading […]
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Golden State of Mind
The Giants, the Niners, the A’s, and yes, even the Warriors made the Bay Area our sports city of the year.
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![Jeremy Lin]()
We Went There: Linsanity Returns to the Garden
I was standing outside of Madison Square Garden, waiting for my friend, when a middle-aged Asian American man in a fancy suit walked by me and smiled. It wasn’t quite like the throes of Linsanity, when a new constituency of Knicks fans began showing up to the Garden, but last night’s game against the Houston […]
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We Went There: Staring Into the Abyss With the Knicks and Lakers
Bernie Williams is not a great guitarist. In fact, listening to him last night as he studiously inched through as spangle-free and un-Hendrix a rendition of the national anthem as I could possibly fathom, I wondered if he didn’t secretly hate America. But none of that really matters, not as long as he remains a […]
