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Week 11 Newsletter: The Power of Sports Compels You
On October 28, 2018, I sat in the upper deck of Dodger Stadium, nervously anticipating the game I had come to see. I was more anxious than I had ever been for a sporting event, and for good reason. My beloved Boston Red Sox had a chance to win the World Series and thus give me the ultimate sports fan experience —…
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Week 8 Newsletter: Light the Beam
Tomorrow is going to be fucking crazy. Sacramento Republic FC will continue its pursuit of a second USL Championship crown, when it hosts San Antonio FC in the Western Conference semi-finals. The Texas Rangers and Arizona Diamondbacks will face off in Game 1 of the most unlikely World Series matchup of all-time (and one of the…
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Week 5 Newsletter: Swift Pun-ishment
We’ll get to the football and funny business in a minute. But first… Nothing about Tim Wakefield’s career should have worked, yet it did beautifully. Born in Melbourne, FL in 1996, Wakefield rose up the baseball ranks as a power-hitting first baseman at Florida Tech, where he set the single-season and career home run records…
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Week 1 Newsletter: Feeling Blue
Football is back, motherfuckers! The final sign of the NFL’s return is here at last — the first newsletter of the season has been released. With both real and fantasy football being played today, anticipation is high for pretty much everyone whose real team doesn’t have a star player calling out the head coach and…
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World Cup of Hate, Part 16: FINALE
This is it — years of research and writing have led to this exact article. We’re going to go from the final four competitors to one ultimate winner of the World Cup of Hate, determining the greatest rivalry in all of sports. Going into the tournament, if you asked people who they thought would win,…
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World Cup of Hate, Part 15: Eight Enemies
There’s now just a single-digit total of rivalries left in the World Cup of Hate and every one of them deserve to be here. These are the elite of the elite of the elite when it comes to hatred, controversy, excitement, fan support, and memorable moments on the soccer field. All of these rivalries have…
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