FreeDarko Welcomes Your City: Seattle and San Fran
FreeDarko is hitting the road again, in support of the book that keeps on giving.2/8: SEATTLEI'll be at the University Bookstore, starting at 7PM, to talk about the book with Sportspress Northwest...
View ArticlePositive Uncertainty
Bio: Rough Justice guarantees he would pass a doping control urine test, but only because they haven't invented a drug that could give him Andrei Kirilenko's hairdo yet. Check out his other work over...
View ArticleCatch A Cab By The City
Yago's latest post from his Cultures of Basketball course is up, where he subjects the students to my "Mikan and Modernity" essay. That's the chapter I was both most shaky on and, idea-wise, the most...
View ArticleI Saw My Ghost Dragged By Carpet
Here's a piece I did for The Good Men Project about what I like to call "sports criticism". That would be the intersection of sports and criticism. I wrote it a while ago but couldn't get it published...
View ArticleSemi-Pros and Cons
Last summer, I took part in the D-League's fantasy Hall of Fame experience thing. Here's what happened. I kept in touch with Wayne Washington, one of the guys I met there. Wayne's in a situation that...
View ArticleDon't Wait For Me
It's on FanHouse, yes, but Eric and I really kept saying "fuck, these made-up insulting NBA Valentines really belong on FD". Unfortunately, I had to stop short of having Dolan called Walsh a "fucking...
View ArticleDunk You Very Much
If you aren't reading Yago Colas's posts about his Cultures of Basketball course, well, you're an idiot, because they just might be the most FD thing going right now. Sorry if I've used that line...
View ArticleFD Bigger Than Life
For All-Star Weekend in Los Angeles, the folks at UNDEFEATED commissioned our very own Jacob Weinstein to do an artistic interpretation of the Blake Griffin Experience. Look for it above the Undefeated...
View ArticleMerriment In Dunk-land
Congrats to Blake Griffin! He did what we thought he would! Check out our print of the newly-crowned Dunk Contest champ, and read some quick thoughts I exchanged with Eric Freeman.Bethlehem Shoals:...
View Article"I Would've Jumped Over a Giraffe"
Here's some vintage Bron-acting-human that also suggests he saw the latest FreeDarko print. You know, the one where Blake Griffin himself jumps over a giraffe instead of that piddly car.LeBron: "I...
View ArticleWhat It Is (Day 12)
Yago Colas posts again about his Cultures of Basketball course, but also, what the ABA means to us today. Especially in the afterglow of All-Star Weekend. Here's Day 11, on kids and the seventies...
View ArticleMadvillainy
Despite the summertime hostility directed toward LeBron James, and in contradistinction to insistence otherwise, the Miami Heat have not been particularly villainous this season. Miami is disliked,...
View ArticleSAN FRANCISCO TONIGHT!!!
7PM, Rockit Room. Eric Freeman, Eli Horowitz from McSweeney's, and myself. FREE ZILLER. MORE INFOI plan to be fully on, like in this video, where I'm acting like I just swallowed a school bus full of...
View ArticleYou Dance and Shake The Hurt (Day 13)
The latest from Yago Colas.My students, and readers following me here, know that in 1968, when I was 3, my family moved to Madison, Wisconsin and that my memories of my first few years there are...
View ArticleVoyage Into The Unknown
It's been a long time since I paid a visit to Disciples of Clyde. Actually, last time was the day the second book came out. Ken and I had a long, serious conversation about writing, animosity, and true...
View ArticleAbjection At The Speed Of Sound
Just listen to the music, man. It is kind of like Tony Conrad, but not, and also kind of like I thought Coltrane was when all I did was read about him. It's also reasonably pertinent to this quick bit...
View ArticleTWO SNAKES
TWO SNAKESorone reporter's opinion 0. the world according to nouns I've seen some shit that nobody else has. A willowy poet putting up either 7 or 8 points every quarter of every game for a decade,...
View ArticleCultures of Basketball Course Diary: The Serpent's Tale (Day 14)
This is a hallowed day. They asked me to play. They actually asked me to play. Okay, well it wasn’t exactly that they asked me to play, but pretty much. Walking across campus to class from my previous...
View ArticleFD at University of Michigan
Strange but true. I will be giving a public lecture at the University of Michigan next Tuesday, as well as paying a visit to Yago Colas's "Cultures of Basketball" course. Hope to see you there!
View ArticleCultures of Basketball Course Diary: Exquisite Corpse (Day 15)
I'm tense. Whenever something good happens (like being asked to play last week), I'm immediately afraid it of it breaking. So I'm tense. Not only is Shoals about to come to Michigan to visit class and...
View ArticleWhere To Find Shoals
Busy week for me. Check these out:-For the Poetry Foundation, a consideration of OFWGKTA and shock language. -Dropping by Page 2 to list my Least Important 2011 Free Agents. -I learn to love March...
View ArticleShoals All Around You
-I'm covering the Bonds trial for The Daily. Will be in the court room next week; for now, here's one of my preliminary columns. Let them know if you enjoy my work for them!-For TheAtlantic.com, a...
View ArticleBoston, Stand Up
Y'all,It's been a while since I rapped at you. Here goes. In lieu of a Free Darko Boston appearance, I, Dr. LIC will be giving a talk at Boston Nerd Nite on hoops and social science, Monday night...
View ArticleYou See What You See
Hi, I'm Eric Nusbaum. I write a baseball blog called Pitchers & Poets with my friend Ted, and sometimes other friends. I've also written for Slate and been an anthology, one time each.Forgive me....
View ArticleThe Day Never Ended
Shoals here. This is the final FreeDarko post. The store will be open through the playoffs; then it too will close. My Twitter and Tumblr will go on, and I'll be blogging about the playoffs on...
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