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For more than 20 seasons the NFL has enjoyed its most diverse and active fanbase in greater Los Angeles—without a franchise. As new California laws are making it easier to ease through community and environmental impact studies through ballot initiatives, the real bulwark may come from the… Continue reading Why the NFL will ultimately stand in the way of a Raiders, Rams or Chargers move to LA

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Warner Brothers this week acquired the screen (and ‘life’ — no joke) rights to 40 Days of Dating, a he-said/she-said blog (well-designed internets-hipster publicity grab …that, like, worked) by a pair of Manhattan-based graphic designers who documented 40 grueling days in a row of forcing the other to… Continue reading 40 Days of ‘Gayting’

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The New York Times loves to hate on California. It’s like the urge to do donuts while eating donuts in a rental car. Some things are hard-coded. And they’re really good at it too. NYT’s staff and stable of freelancers can pour on cliché about California like… Continue reading The New York Times Manual of California Lifestyle Reporting revealed

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They weigh more than 1,000 pounds, are supported by ankles the size of a human’s, and are whipped and forced to run around tracks that are often made of hard-packed dirt at speeds of more than 30 miles per hour while carrying people on their backs. Racehorses… Continue reading The basic human cruelty that defines the Kentucky Derby

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DPB’s Kyle Magin and Andrew J. Pridgen pour on the prose with Pints and Picks™. Who to wager and what to drink while doing it. Here, a very special PNP for a very special pair of guys—#MayPac. AJ, Here we are on the eve of the biggest… Continue reading Pints and Picks: How to wager #MayPac

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I don’t know much about the NFL Draft other than it’s a thinly veiled metaphor for slavery. By Andrew Pridgen NFL players are systematically chosen by “owners” after they’ve been processed in a “combine” then they’re dressed up and fussed over by a bunch of rich white… Continue reading The NFL Draft Day Drinking Game

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Somewhere along the way I’d lost the narrative of the Across the Bay 12k. Maybe I found it again Sunday. By Andrew Pridgen The Across the Bay 12k was re-booted Sunday under a canopy of cloudless sky and above the uncharacteristically still waters of the San Francisco… Continue reading Seeing an old friend on race day

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During the winter of 2010, I was lucky enough to call Park City, Utah home. It was the year America fielded its biggest Winter Olympic squad to date, and, after bringing home 37 medals from Vancouver, its most successful. Park City, the host of the 2002 Winter… Continue reading This Olympics I’m a Lindsey Van fan

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Hemingway had booze, Ron Jeremy had Viagra and fat Elvis had…food. So why, even after the highest court in the land has cleared the names of Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens, will Hall of Fame voters refuse to acknowledge the greats of their era based on suspicion… Continue reading Court’s adjourned: Now it’s time to put Bonds and Clemens in the Hall

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The first seven years of Andrew Bogut’s NBA career were just inconsistent enough to make the league forget he was once its most sought-after. Three years removed from Milwaukee, he’s a cornerstone to a franchise in the hunt for its first championship in 40 years. By Andrew… Continue reading Andrew Bogut emerges from a decade of doubt and discomfort