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Les Miles: Heart And Heartbreak
Sunday, January 8, 2012 9:11 pm

Written by: Jeff Passan

Les Miles hates his phone. It frustrates him daily. One time he tried to call an assistant coach on his LSU football staff. He instead dialed a recruit during a dead period. LSU self-reported the impermissible phone call ... >>

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Alabama Crimson Tide, BCS championship, Heroes, Les Miles, LSU Tigers, NCAAF
From Another Era And Another Sport, A Sex Abuse Scandal Still Inflicting Pain Today
Thursday, November 10, 2011 2:43 pm

Written by: Jeff Passan

He remembers hearing the popping sound from far away. He didn't know what it was so he followed the noise from the house on Avenue O. Half a mile Leeronnie Ogletree ran, the pops getting louder, the intrigue multiplying u... >>

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Boston Red Sox, MLB
'Money' For Nothing: Brad Pitt Notwithstanding, Baseball Movies Just Don't Work Anymore
Tuesday, September 20, 2011 5:15 pm

Written by: Jeff Passan

They used to make movies about baseball. It was Hollywood's sport as much as it was America's. Filmmakers saw in baseball what they did in their own work: a tempered build, a sweeping narrative, a rumbling denouement and ... >>

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Billy Beane, Brad Pitt, MLB, Moneyball, Oakland Athletics
The Ballad Of Wily Mo Pena
Friday, July 1, 2011 10:01 am

Written by: Jeff Passan

Wily Modesto Peña, better known as Wily Mo, hits baseballs for a living, which is sort of thing a 29-year-old man named Wily Mo would do. He hits them hard, probably harder than anyone alive. When dead-red fastballs meet... >>

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Arizona Diamondbacks, MLB, MLB-NC, Wily Mo Pena
How Jose Bautista Went From Baseball Vagabond To The Game's Best Slugger
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 9:59 pm

Written by: Jeff Passan

Jose Bautista always got A's in classes that involved math. Algebra, geometry, chemistry, physics: the discipline never mattered. His mind worked like a calculator. Bautista took English lessons as an 8-year-old in the Do... >>

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Jose Bautista, MLB, MLB-NC, Pittsburgh Pirates, Toronto Blue Jays

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