What happens when you ask seven experts for the predictions for the 2016-2017 English Premier League season? Massive disagreements, arguments, contradictions, absurdities and outrageousness. You know, football.
In the bullpen — there’s got to be a jar of instant coffee in here somewhere.
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The team doctor prescribed the swimmers two cups of decaf before bedtime.
Keeping score takes an extra half-beat in order to allow the brain to translate. A left fielder is avoltigeur de gauche. A pitcher is a lanceur. A shortstop is an arrêt–court . At the end of each half-frame we tally up points, coups surs, erreurs, and runners laisses sur les buts. All 3842 of us await a coup de circuit, though no one manages to clear the ad-plastered wall.
In 1984, the summer Olympic Games came back to Los Angeles. David Davis has curated 150 of the most remarkable photos from that tournament in One Golden Moment.
Today, we get the answers from Ben Lindbergh, co-author of The Only Rule Is It Has to Work, an excellent book about running an independent league baseball team. He is also a staff writer for The Ringer and, with Sam Miller, the cohost of Effectively Wild, the daily Baseball Prospectus podcast.
In fact, Los Angeles was, in conception and execution, the Olympic Games most directly shaped by the forces of commerce and money. It would take the rest of the Olympic movement fifty years to catch up.
Today, we get the answers from Eddie Joyce, the author of the novel Small Mercies.
It seemed to happen way too fast. As if time wasn’t meant to unfold this way. As if this was a flip movie in the little red pocket-book whose pages had slipped too quickly from beneath your thumb.
The Sports Museum of Los Angeles is on Main Street.
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You don’t walk through a turnstile but there are turnstiles on display.
Two days have passed since I spent an evening at Estado Alejandro Serrano Aguilar, the home of Deportiva Cuenca, in southern Ecuador. Since then I’ve searched a dozen local retailers for a kit, tried to change the team I support on FIFA16, and spent at least an hour trying to understand the Ecuadorian league and tournament structure.