Posts by Michael Weinreb
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Blue and Gold and Red All Over
On the old glory and messy future of Notre Dame football.
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Please Don’t Call It ‘Ping-Pong’
Among the paddle-fetishizing, bar-hustling American Olympic table tennis hopefuls.
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Why Is Kellen Moore Coming Up Short?
According to the individuals whose job it is to quantify NFL prospects, Brock Osweiler stands six and seven-eighths inches taller than Kellen Moore; according to these same men at Scouts Inc., Osweiler receives an overall “grade” of 87 as a prospect, while Moore gets a 42. This makes perfect sense: If forced to choose between […]
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What, Exactly, Is Akron Up To?
The plight of the mid-major college football program.
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Where is Micheal Ray Richardson?
Micheal Ray Richardson is in Oklahoma. Coaching basketball. But has he come any closer to conquering his demons?
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Petrino the Scoundrel
On the surface, the Bobby Petrino saga is not a complex one: The man wiped out on his motorcycle while shuttling his 25-year-old mistress, a woman he’d recently hired and had allegedly gifted with $20 grand in cash. And then he lied about pretty much everything. It is a scenario far too preposterous for the […]
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The Aging Tiger Woods
The uncertain future of a onetime savior.
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Dumb History and Misplaced Nostalgia
Why has it taken 143 years for a four-team college football playoff to seem real?
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Mr. Griffin III Goes to Washington?
Back in November, when Robert Griffin III insisted he was keeping all of his options open, he sat in a windowless conference room and told me he was seriously considering a return to Baylor for his senior season so he could enroll in law school, and that he had not ruled out the possibility of […]
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On the Pleasures of Championship Week
They played a championship game in Brooklyn on Wednesday night, at one of those raucous little gyms that holds 1,700 people and, when packed to the gills, feels like it might collapse in on itself at any moment. It was contested to determine the winner of the Northeast Conference, a conflagration of small schools that […]
