The Best Stories You've nEver Read #108
Tiger's real crime: Not playing the media's game -- Fox Sports
The Tiger scandal has the sports media formng a circular firing squad. Read Jason Whitlock's take, then click the link in his story to read Charlie Pierce's story with another point of view.
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-- Dick Weiss
The Best Stories You've nEver Read #107
In this magazine excerpt from The Walrus, journalist Alex Hutchinson advances the theory that the GPS may be harming our cognitive abilities.
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-- Dick Weiss
The Best Stories You've nEver Read #106
"Open" by Andre Agassi -- Sports Illustrated
The retired tennis star invites us to share his demons. Raw and authentic. Agassi collaborated with Pulitzer Prize winner and former LA Times reporter J.R. Moehringer on the book.Sports Illustrated provides an excerpt.
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The Best Stories You've nEver Read #105
The reconstruction of American journalism -- Columbia Journalism Review
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The Best Stories You've nEver Read #104
How different are football and dogfighting -- The New Yorker
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The Best Stories You've nEver Read #103
Technology adds to raucous tradition -- Washington Post
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The Best Stories You've nEver Read #101
Stop and take a deep breath before telling another little lie to make your friends and family feel better about themselves and you. You might be doing everyone a favor by sharing the truth -- even if it hurts. That's what self-styled honesty guru Brad Blanton tells author A.J. Jacobs. Jacobs follows the advice with mixed results.
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The Best Stories You've nEver Read #100
After the fall -- St. Loujis Post-Dispatch
The hometown paper scores with a brilliant and poignant story about the fan who took a header a month ago when he tried to grab a foul ball for his son.
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The Best Stories You've nEver Read #99
Bias aganst fat people is spiking at a time when more than two-thirds of Americans over 20 are either overweight or obese. It's a form of self loathing.
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The Best Stories You've nEver Read #98
Squeaking by on $300,000 a year -- Washington Post
The recession has taken its toll on one of the richest counties in the country in unexpected ways, Anne Hull of the Washington Post reports. It's tough to keep a nanny on at $40,000 and pay $35,000 in real estate taxes, but it's a price you have to pay to maintain a career and a home.The $200 hair stylings, however, are a thing of the past.
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