Is there a correlation between the long season and the number of extra inning or simply long games? The regular season is too long and the playoffs sometimes seem like MLB is trying to manufacture tension to squeeze out even more money.

Dicks from a lab! Finally, an explanation for how Rick Santorum was made.

While I agree that bravery may not be the exactly correct term, there is an element of bravery in facing up to the reality of life. Miss Flower would have looked gorgeous and more like herself had she just had a neck lift and her lips fixed, but hey, what ever she wants to pay for has to be judged in the context of…

At 3:41, lower left corner. Who brings a tuba to a ballgame?

Instead of using clocks, the antithesis of baseball, use umpires and rules and broadcast contracts.

If the men were man enough to stand up to FIFA for the women players, then maybe....

Wait a minute. 1% of fibroids are cancerous and only .02% of those are uterine sarcoma. This is a scary headline for a miniscule risk.

Racist, ageist and sexist all in one article!

Right, because all marks of abuse are visible. No such thing as emotional or psychological injury, except you, you are the evidence of how terrible hitting a child is. You've just told strangers, who are pointing out that violence begets violence, a writer who demonstrates how willfully injuring someone is never a…

The Dream of Scipio by Iain Pears: An historical novel that follows three people in three different historical periods.

I grew up listening to baseball on the radio. My grandfather taught me to read by starting with box scores,the names and the numbers had a context and a symbolic placement, then coached me through articles in the newspaper about the games we had heard. He would talk about how the game I heard differed from what the…

Laws do not exist to change morals, but they do exist to solve problems.

How does her back look so great?!! I squat and lift and yoga and yet my spinal and seat regions couldn't hold up a pair of pants much less 2/3 of a jacket.

A college program paying for itself means it pays for the buildings, the coaches, the staff. It is almost impossible to figure out how much college sports bring in versus their expenses in because, unlike professional sports - which are also subsidized by taxpayers, but in other ways - used exclusively by athletes may…

So you pay whom for the housekeeping, the chauffeur services, cooking, laundry, scheduling, banking, childcare, etc? The unpaid work of a stay-at-home parent is worth between $36,000 and $115, 000/year for about 97 hours/week of work. Unless you're compensating your wife in some other way than with your Henny Youngman…

I enjoy being moved. Whether intellectually or emotionally, I read to go somewhere else, to find out what to do, and to connect to a larger zeitgeist.

A 28 year age difference is really creepy when the guy is the older one, because issues of power and privilege can't be dismissed, especially with Woody Allen. Yet this version of old guy/young woman is OK, almost common. The other way is rarely even thought about and even when it is, the woman usually does the…

Creative work is still work.

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The one with Phil Niekro as coach that was marketed as the start of a professional women's league. In reality it was owned by Coors, instigated after a series of boycotts over everything from union busting to support of very right wing causes and politicians and lawsuits from women in the company and, eventually, on…