Add four more Cy Young candidate-caliber seasons to Dave Stieb’s résumé and he’d be, I don’t know, Steve Carlton

The HoF is such a strange institution. Why should the gatekeepers to membership there be baseball writers, and only baseball writers? Former players, current GMs, novelists, Bill James...none of those guys can vote because they lack the crucial “smelled Scott Rolen’s jockstrap after a double-header in Atlanta”…

Yeah, let’s turn Hall of Fame voting over to the people, so Jason fucking Varitek can get voted in as a write in candidate every single year.

Apparently she’s a “white supremacist” now based on absolutely zero evidence.

If only Purdue had access to some competent engineers!

I’m going to take a shot and say the first was at Texas?

Sure is a bad look for Purdue. It’s a shame they had to...

This is the second funniest thing to happen involving a university clock tower.

two actual human workers on a cherry picker... nobody was injured.

That clock sure got yeeted, amirite?

The superior position in that game was a result of him angling for a draw throughout the entire game. He was making specific moves not to sharpen the position and increase chance of winning but to lock the position and prevent counterplay.

The extent of my chess knowledge is only chess club in middle school and Ben Tippett’s article yesterday, but I believe the match 12 draw wasn't an example of Magnus being able to play to a draw when he needs to since he had superior position but decided to offer the draw because he didn't want to risk making a…

+1 didn't know I liked chess until this month

Carlsen is 1st in the world in rapid and blitz, while Caruana is 8th and 16th, respectively, if memory serves. That’s a not-insignificant gap for quicker categories.

If this is the chess equivalent of the Chicago Bulls losing game 5 of the 1996 NBA Finals on purpose then Magnus Carlsen is going to end his career by officially retiring and then un-retiring just so that he can stunt on Kwame Brown.

I really enjoyed Ben Tippett’s coverage of the matches, bring him back again!

“Still thinking of Abraham Lincoln as the guy who lost the 1858 Senate contest to Stephen Douglas? Think again.”

Other SI cover story ideas:

So as the years passed, the story of the short signal-caller who conquered insurmountable odds...