A Field Guide to Sports Egos
When you have agents and hangers-on handing you money and naked women and Escalades from the age of 14 on, it’s bound to swell your head. Some athletes just get a worse case of it than others. BY MATT TAIBBI
Continue reading...The Awkward Decade
Monday, January 25, 2010
Through the miracle of the internet, fans were able to wallow in their obsession like never before, relentlessly dissecting every uncomfortable sports moment. The result? Ten years of unintentional comedy gold. By MATT TAIBBI
Continue reading...Why Sports Are for Losers
Monday, December 21, 2009
There is a dirty truth that professional sports keeps hidden from fans. And that truth is: Watching sports sucks.
Continue reading...Your Logo Here
Monday, November 2, 2009
From now on I’m putting this space in my column up for sale. And why not? I’m just following the lead of the sports world, where every inch of turf, every minute of airtime, can be had for a price. By Matt Taibbi
Continue reading...If I Ran the NFL
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
For one thing, there’d be no more of these keep-your-hands-off-the-receiver, high-octane-offense, no-lead-is-safe mockeries of a football game. Oh, and fewer talking-baby ads. By Matt Taibbi
Continue reading...Nine Guys I Don’t Hate
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
There’s no shortage of athletes easy to despise. (Preening, overpaid, starbanging phony A-Rod comes to mind.) But even a rabid fan like me has a few opposing players he can’t get too worked up about.
Continue reading...Waiting for Larry
Thursday, May 28, 2009
White NBA fans yearn for the salad days of the Bird era, when being slow and looking really bad in shorts didn’t matter. And nowhere is this longing more evident than in each year’s draft.
Continue reading...Brian Cashman: The Bad Lieutenant
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Brian Cashman, the GM of the New York Yankees, may be the worst ever at the best job in the world. Which is why he’ll inevitably fail this year in his shameless attempt to buy a World Series.
Continue reading...The Upside of Ugly
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
There are two kinds of grotesque athletes: the good ugly, who help you win by frightening and distracting teams for a game or two a year, and the bad ugly, who offend God every day of the week. Here, a scorecard.
Continue reading...The Devil’s Doorstep: A Visit with Scott Boras
Monday, February 23, 2009
Scott Boras, baseball’s all-powerful attack-dog agent, has been called many things — not least among them, “the anti-Christ.” But I believed him to be a force for good. How to reconcile this? I paid him a visit.
Continue reading...Isiah Thomas vs. Al Davis: The Final Showdown
Friday, December 12, 2008
Al Davis’s latest antics in Oakland leave us pining for the good old days of another warped franchise killer — a certain bad-boy GM in New York. But which guy is more destructive? Let’s find out.
Continue reading...The Evolution of Sports Whining
Monday, November 17, 2008
Bitching by multimillionaire athletes may be reaching a crescendo, but it’s been a long time coming. Way before there was Barry Zito and Vince Young, there was one Amos Rusie.
Continue reading...First, Kill All The Sportswriters
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
You are guilty of bringing Access Hollywood values to the honorable tradition of figuring out why Wily Mo Pena can’t hit a curveball. For this you shall pay.
Continue reading...You’re Gonna Owe me for this, Cuban
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
So what if pro football is nearly flawless? There’s always room for improvement. Here, free advice from an NFL fan on what he’d love to see from the upstart UFL.
Continue reading...The Real Scandal of Spygate
Monday, September 29, 2008
In his inaugural column Matt Taibbi celebrates a new football season and makes the case that Pennsylvania pol Arlen Specter’s unsportsmanlike conduct — not Bill Belichick’s spy cams — spoiled the last one.
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