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Baseball Is Dead. (Yeah, right!)

from The Guardian Why baseball spent more than $1bn on three players in a month Three of the richest contracts in sports history would appear to bust the baseball-is-dying narrative, but underlying trends have exposed a rot within the mechanics of the sport’s economics by Bryan Armen Graham Mike Trout, the Angels’ newly minted $426.5m […]

Spooky Golightly

from The New York Post Hollywood legend Audrey Hepburn was a WWII resistance spy By Reed Tucker She was one of Hollywood’s most celebrated actresses. But Audrey Hepburn had a role that few knew about: spy. And unlike the characters that she portrayed on screen, playing this part could literally mean life or death. The […]

Plague Again

from MSN Deadly germs, Lost cures: A Mysterious Infection, Spanning the Globe in a Climate of Secrecy by MATT RICHTEL and ANDREW JACOBS  Last May, an elderly man was admitted to the Brooklyn branch of Mount Sinai Hospital for abdominal surgery. A blood test revealed that he was infected with a newly discovered germ […]

Megalopolis

from Deadline Francis Ford Coppola Ready To Make ‘Megalopolis’ And Is Eyeing Cast By Mike Fleming Jr EXCLUSIVE: On the eve of his 80th birthday, Francis Ford Coppola is ready to embark on one of his dream projects. He plans to direct Megalopolis, a sprawling film as ambitious as Apocalypse Now, that he has been plotting […]

XFL Ain’t No AFL – No Worries.

from Inside Hook To Avoid AAF’s Fate, XFL Must Have a Better TV Deal Vince McMahon has promised fans will be able to find XFL games “consistently.” BY EVAN BLEIER The Alliance of American Football, which suspended all football operations yesterday with two games remaining, began its season with games airing on CBS. The debut […]

Consent Condom

from The Sun New ‘consent’ condoms can only be opened by two people The condoms can only be opened when four hands simultaneously press special pressure points on the side of the packet By Molly Rose Pike  A BIZARRE new pack of condoms that can only be opened by two people at once have […]

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55,000 Hours Of Boxing Archives

from The New York Times For Sale: This Massive, Obsessive and (Probably) Obsolete VHS Boxing Archive Forty years of boxing matches — as many as 55,000 individual fights — have been painstakingly preserved in a video archive. In the age of YouTube and cloud storage, is it worth anything? By Alex Vadukul Rock’ Em Sock’ […]

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Whale Fall

from The New Yorker A Whale’s Afterlife By Jeffrey Marlow Photomontage of the whale fall in Monterey Canyon obtained during a February 2002 dive using the ROV Tiburon. The red “fuzz” is thousands of deep-sea worms growing on the whale bones. On the day before Thanksgiving, 2011, Greg Rouse, a trim marine biologist in his fifties, […]