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04/18/12
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The Past

Dusting Off: The Hidden Ball Trick

There’s a fine line between unsportsmanlike behavior and good old-fashioned trickery, particularly on the baseball field. For example, most baseball purists—ourselves included—lost a fair amount of respect for Alex Rodriguez back in 2007 when he shouted “I got it” while running past Toronto third baseman Howie Clark, who let the ball drop. Three runs scored. Bush league, A-Rod.

The hidden ball trick, on the other hand, is as old as the game itself and, in our opinion, no more unsportsmanlike in its deception than throwing a 59 mph change-up when a batter is anticipating high heat.

Which is why we’d like to see the boys of summer dust it off this season…»
 

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02/10/09
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The Sport

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Alex Rodriguez has never been popular—at least not in New York—and this isn’t likely to help…but it’s worth considering what exactly we want from athletes.

Yankees in particular have been jittery, nervous creatures over the past few years, which has a lot to do with having some of the most vicious sportswriters in the country breathing down their necks, but the PR game of professional athletes has become too calculated to be likeable.

It’s so long ago that most ESPN-watchers wouldn’t remember, but the perfect athlete used to be called a “sport.” A sport was someone like Jack Johnson or Mickey Mantle who lived it up in his off-hours, dressed as flashy as they could, and generally made the full use of their ridiculous salary. Think wide lapels and diamond stickpins, as Randy Roberts would describe it, or the more recent NFL popularity of the plaid suit.

If he were a little flashier, we would have let A-Rod get away with a lot more.

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07/10/08
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Showing Some Leg, Showing Even More Leg, and Showing Kate’s Legs

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Happy Accident: City Rag went looking for a shot of
Kate Hudson’s tattoo and found lots of bare skin instead. Don’t you
hate it when that happens? [ href="http://cityrag.blogs.com/main/kh2.html"target="_blank">City
Rag]

Rising Stocks: ACL digs into the Wall Street
Journal’s report on highwater trousers—remember, less fabric
equals greater dividends to boardmembers. [ href="http://acontinuouslean.com/2008/07/10/highwater-trousers/"target="_blank">A
Continuous Lean]

Karl’s World: One day we will all live under the yolk
of his iron, black-clad fist…and it will be fabulous. [ href="http://pipeline.refinery29.com/news/chanelements_lagerfeld_solves.php"target="_blank">The
Pipeline]

Bank On It: Store your dwindling funds in these
beauties. [Hyr
Collective]

On Your Knees: David Coleman instructs us on how to
wear the latest cut-off shorts styles, make your own, and possibly
ruin a perfectly good pair of pants. [ href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/10/fashion/10CODES.html?_r=1&ref=fashion&oref=slogin"target="_blank">NYTimes]

D-I-V-O-R-C-E: Poor A-Rod. Poor, poor A-Rod. [ href="http://www.vanityfair.com/online/culture/2008/07/09/baseball-caption-a-look-into-the-future.html"target="_blank">Vanityfair.com]

First Baby: Queen of our world, Carla Bruni, wants a baby, but Nic
Sarkozy is mum on the subject. The line for volunteers starts behind
us. [NYMag]

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Style: some people have it, and some neighborhoods really have it. To show you what we mean, we’ve partnered with Cadillac to present Style Shifters—a five-part, in-depth look at what the hippest gents in some of the country’s coolest neighborhoods are wearing now. Our intrepid photographers have roamed the streets in search of the most stylish guys around. Herewith, a few photos of what they found...

New York

Brooklyn

Williamsburg

Williamsburg, Brooklyn is home to some of the country’s best bars, coolest restaurants and, of course, some of the best menswear shops in the world. Naturally, you’ll find more than a few stylish individuals perched outside those locations (and no, not all of them are Billyburg hipsters). See what we mean below...

On The Streets: Brooklyn

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California

San Francisco

Mission District
May 1

Oh, and up next: we take a peak at another handsome-as-hell neighborhood, the Mission District in San Francisco. Stay tuned...

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