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Under Further Review: The Cubs Way: The Zen of Building the Best Team in Baseball and Breaking the Curse

When I visited Wrigley Field back in 2013, the Cubs were just one year into rebuilding the team under the management of Theo Epstein, and the big acquisition at the time was Anthony Rizzo – he ...

Brett Favre Endorsements: My Painful Journey into the World of Hocus-pocus Marketing

The warning signs were everywhere on the internet. A basic Google search would have revealed that Brett Favre is currently endorsing crappy razor blades and useless compression sleeves. One ...

So Your Kid Sucks At Baseball. How To Deal With It?

Early Innings…Holding out Hope You are a lifelong baseball fan. Maybe you played softball or baseball at some serious level. Perhaps you have always just enjoyed watching the game and following ...

How to Watch (and Bet!) the Little League World Series

It takes a certain kind of temperament to search “LLWS gambling” and “LLWS prop bets” on a casual Saturday afternoon, but (un)fortunately for you, reader, I have that temperament in spades. What ...

Alternate History Lessons in White Man’s Burden

When HBO announced its greenlighting of Confederate, a new series from the show-runners of Game of Thrones, the news was met with a barrage of outrage thanks to its provocative premise: It’s set ...

REVIEW: Detroit Isn’t Good Enough to Justify the Misery of Watching It

Detroit is about one of the more unpleasant things to have happened in a city where so many unpleasant things have happened that you can elicit a feeling of despair just by naming your movie ...

Dunkirk, Iron Man, and Sacrifice in Film

A personal sacrifice, when done right, can be an incredibly moving and effective part of a story. When done wrong, it can deflate the entire narrative. Often, the difference is between a true ...

Personal Reflections on The Great Movie Ride (R.I.P.)

“Hooray for Hollywood” will never sound right to me without the tin-can hiss of a VHS tape many times rewound. Growing up in the bleak hinterlands of northeast Ohio, I longed for what a ...

Taking the Season One Click at a Time, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Online Sports Trackers

Growing up in Maine, I rooted for teams well outside the standard TV coverage map for the area. In the summer, when NESN would broadcast Brian Daubach’s strikeouts as the Red Sox limped to an ...

Gorilla Warfare: How War for the Planet of the Apes Mirrors U.S. History

War for the Planet of the Apes opens with scenes that are familiar to American viewers: soldiers silently work their way through the jungle, looking for the enemy. The camera angle switches and ...

REVIEW: Have Your Butt Handed to You By Atomic Blonde

To the extent that there are James Bonds in the real world — dashing, highly skilled secret agents who can kill enemies with a rolled-up newspaper — surely by now there are also Jane ...

A Five-tool Writer

In baseball, there is a phrase used to describe a complete ballplayer: a five-tool player.  First talked about in The American Diamond, by Branch Rickey.* The term has evolved from one used to ...

The Comedy of Kubrick

The final scene of 1999’s Eyes Wide Shut takes place in a toy store. As Dr. Bill Harford and his wife, Alice, let their young daughter run around to pick out Christmas presents, they discuss the ...

The Resourceful Creativity of George A. Romero

Until 1968, the term “zombie” was used to refer to the Haitian folklore belief of reanimating a dead body through magical means. In 1972, films with a distinctly feminist point of view were rare, ...

Get Off My Plane and Lawn: Air Force One Turns 20

One of the music cues Donald Trump used during his presidential campaign  was from the soundtrack for Air Force One, a movie in which America’s core institutions are taken over by a man ...

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Brett Favre Endorsements: My Painful Journey into the World of Hocus-pocus Marketing

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How to Watch (and Bet!) the Little League World Series.

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A Five-tool Writer.

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So Your Kid Sucks At Baseball. How To Deal With It?

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Embracing Fear: How Dennis Eckersley Beat the Bottle and Rode His Rebound into Cooperstown.

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