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While it’s common knowledge all the clocks in Pulp Fiction are set to 4:20 and California’s first medical marijuana bill was SB420—not many folks connect the ubiquitous code for smoke and smoke-friendly folks to Marin County’s rebuffing of public transit in the ‘60s. By Andrew Pridgen The… Continue reading How Marin County’s refusal of BART sparked 4:20
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By employing street-smart ethos, leveraging the agent pool from business partner CAA and choosing clients wisely, Jay Z may have another hit with Roc Nation Sports. But for how long? By Andrew Pridgen Roc Nation Sports this week signed former Kentucky standout center Willie Cauley-Stein; a plausible… Continue reading Willie Cauley-Stein’s signing with Roc Nation Sports a perfect match—but will they last?
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Rub your eyes and scoff and snort and click on some other link with astounding cat facts. That’s fine. I get it. I don’t really want to be reading about Record Store Day either. After all, it’s sort of a cheap play right? Record Store Day is… Continue reading Why Record Store Day matters
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Beyond the Press Box is a regular feature profiling the folks who color outside the lines of sport. You know those really really good ideas? The wake up in the middle of the night kind. The it’ll change the world as soon as you’ve finished your Cinnamon… Continue reading Q&A with Coalition Snow co-founders Jen Gurecki and Danielle Rees
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When I was 19, I walked around with an ‘X-Files: I want to believe’ t-shirt on (late-bloomer). I feel like Squaw/Alpine should issue similar gear for their proposed connector gondola and then look and see that the calendar says: ‘it’s 2015 and the time for a gondola… Continue reading Why the Squaw-Alpine gondola won’t ever happen (and why that’s a good thing)
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UFC women’s reigning bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey has waged war against the world’s worst company for refusing to sell her autobiography. And once again, she is winning. By Andrew Pridgen Ronda Rousey is a dichotomy in a sports bra and hand wraps. The embodiment of the awful… Continue reading Walmart scuffle shows Rousey’s biggest fight is outside the octagon
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Jack Nicklaus, the 75-year-old guy who is the Target of golf course design and accounted for more than half my father’s leisure-time wardrobe*, bagged a 139-yard 4th hole Par 3 hole-in-one Wednesday at the Masters Par 3 contest. By Andrew Pridgen Nicklaus partook in a threesome with… Continue reading A second-by-second breakdown of Jack Nicklaus’ Masters Ace
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Saturday, the New York Yankees lost services of their .244-hitting third baseman Alex Rodriguez who has been suspended for the entire 2014 season by arbitrator Fredric Horowitz. Horowitz, after levying punishment, mentioned to A Rod he knows a jeweler who will take anything off his hands at… Continue reading A Rod denies any ties to Mafia or Cosa Nostra in statement released after season-long suspension
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I’ve long shared the opinion of many long-suffering A’s fans that Lew Wolff is a prick. Make that, a prick in khakis who always seems to be sporting a virgin white cardigan or blue blazer from his days sucking up to Dean Wormer.* *Pictured above at another… Continue reading Why Lew Wolff is the last great owner in baseball
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I wasn’t yet the ghost of cigarette smoke curling toward the ceiling in my granddad’s eye when Sinatra played the Sands in ’66. When Satchmo took over New York Town Hall May 17, 1947, my mother was in the womb. My folks hadn’t yet met when Elvis… Continue reading A salute to Scully
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