Posts by Michael Weinreb
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What’s the Score?
The Fox Box and the demise of the most ubiquitous phrase in the English language.
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The Grantland Top Five: Len Bias, College Football, and the Rest of the Week in Sports and Culture
1. Leonard Bias, NBA Draft Choice, College Park, Md., June 1986 Twenty-five years ago, at the spiritual zenith of the 1980s, a group of college students gathered in a Maryland dormitory for an impromptu celebration, replete with cognac, malt liquor, and high-grade pharmaceuticals. Most of us know how the night ended; we’ve heard the story […]
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The Top Five: One Writer’s Sometimes-Relevant, Never-Boring Breakdown of This Week’s “News”
Disclaimer: This is an arbitrary and purposefully biased compilation of some of the people, places, objects, and cultural concepts that struck the author as newsworthy and/or compelling in the past week. Any resemblances to coherent lists, living or dead, is purely coincidental. 1. Terrelle Pryor, quarterback/body-art enthusiast, Columbus, Ohio An exhibit from November 7, 2009 […]
