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Fritz and Susanne and Mike and Marilyn (1973)
Or, the most unique swap in baseball history.
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Michael Weinreb
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"I don't like to be pushed" (1969)
O.J. Simpson, before and after.
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Michael Weinreb
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The Five: The Car Pool Lane (2004)
The swan song of America's most disgruntled sports fan.
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The Five: "Someday It Will Happen"
How one NCAA tournament wound up eclipsing the other.
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Michael Weinreb

March 2024

The Five (Say It Ain't So, Shohei)
Brief notes on an American scandal.
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The End of the Innocence (1950)
Nearly 75 years after the CCNY scandal, what happens now with sports and gambling?
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The Five (March Madness Moments)
Cinderellas, near-misses, and the birth of a great American story.
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We (Not) Done With the 90s (1990)
On Michael Jordan Trutherism, and attacking the past.
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From the Archives: It's All Right To Cry (1974)
The Gump-ian life of Rosey Grier.
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Late-Stage College Sports (1985)
Can our shared disgust with the capitalistic creep of college sports help unite America?
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The Five (Farewells)
Brief obituaries for a few colorful characters.
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Storming the Court (1990s)
Channeling the impetuousness of youth.
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