Something Fishy at Sports Illustrated (Update)

April 2, 2009

Or something rotten in Schnecksville. Flipping through a stack of recent issues of Sports Illustrated I came across an item that indicates highly suspicious activity on the part of SI, or, less likely, a police officer from Schnecksville, PA named Ricky Thurman. Specifically, I came across this letter to the editor that ran in the […]

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That’s not a Curse, THIS is a Curse . . .

July 24, 2008

Yesterday I came across this story about a group of sports memorabilia dealers who’ve offered reclusive Cubs fan Steve Bartman $25,000 to show up at the National Sportscard Convention in Chicago and sign one — just one — autograph, on a photo depicting the infamous play where he arguably prevented Cubs left fielder Moises Alou […]

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The Curse of Chief Wahoo

June 23, 2008

UPDATE: For a much more comprehensive treatment of the subject, click here. Whatever else about Chief Wahoo, the face of the Cleveland Indians, it’s amazing that we don’t hear more about a “Curse of Wahoo” in Cleveland, the city suffering the longest and most painful championship drought in major American professional sports. Surveys show that […]

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