Posts by Kevin Lincoln
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How to Pick Your Draft-Day Hero
Bored by the draft, a sporting event in which the greatest feat of athleticism is walking across a stage? You need to choose a player whose fate you can wed to your own.
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Rating the Non-Johnny Draft Quarterbacks on the Manziel Scale
Going into this year’s draft, there’s one major consensus. Johnny Manziel, quarterback, Texas A&M, is an amazingly efficient entertainment vehicle. What’s less clear is whether any of the other quarterbacks in the stable offer even half of Johnny’s charisma, potency, and potential for nirvana.
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Dunleavy, DeJuan, and Daniels: The One-Night Heroes of the NBA Playoffs
At this stage in his basketball life, DeJuan Blair avenging his dismissal by the Spurs with a late-game outburst is pretty much the best he can hope for.
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Do You Believe in the Bolivian Soccer Ghost?
Imagine an NBA or an NFL or an MLB ghost. You can’t. Do you know why you can’t? Because we have no sense of wonder when it comes to sports.
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Die Another Day: Seven More X-Day Sports Movies for Kevin Costner to Lace Us With
Here’s the Triangle’s Marshall Plan for an entire series of sports-themed day-in-the-life films, all able to be filmed on the cheap, all with the potential to bring glory to our great nation, and, most important, all with Kevin Costner.
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Drake and Johnny, and a Plea for More Sports-Themed Rap Songs
Hip-hop and sports have a long, complicated history, but let’s focus on the present.
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Get the Declaration of Independence Tattooed on Your Face: Haim Is in a Nike Ad for U.S. Soccer
After seeing Nike’s promotional photos of the Haim girls wearing the new United States men’s national team jerseys, exactly how patriotic do you feel?
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The Philadelphia 76ers vs. History and the Pistons
We don’t always get the privilege of aspiring to make history. Sometimes, we just desperately, hopelessly try to get out of its sights.
