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The flesh of his middle and index fingers presses against white hide and red wax-covered thread. His medieval weapon of an arm rears up and crests the plane above his head. Electrical impulses have already left his brain and are racing to his hand to tell his thumb to move out of the way at [...]
Strange stirrings deep in the desert could herald the return of a expansion-era baseball icon. The San Diego Padres retired their beloved Swinging Friar logo in 1985. Since then, a modified version of the Friar has appeared as a secondary graphic, but the original cleric has remained missing — until a recent sighting in Arizona. [...]
NoPepper.net: Your home for thousands upon thousands of ill-researched previews. We roll on. NL EAST 1.Philadelphia Phillies Reasons to love ‘em: Understatement: The Phillies have good pitching. Wait. We’re getting an update over the wire. There are 20 players on Philadelphia’s roster who are not starting pitchers. And they are also damn good. When Ryan [...]
Picking a winner of the NL Central this year makes you feel like the Bachelor. Yes, there are a lot of choices that are superficially attractive, but you are terrified that you are picking a complete psycho who will hurl small kitchen appliances at your head because your ratty gym shorts disturb the feng shui of [...]
I see how it is. I’m the only one with the baseballs to make the official NoPepper.net predictions. Well then. I am now tempted to pick the Royals to win the Central. But you, dear reader, deserve more than that. Not much more, since this website is free and has no advertising. Still. I did [...]
Less than 48 hours to go before C.C. Sabathia — well into his third trimester – toes the rubber at Yankee Stadium and throws the first pitch of Opening Day. That means if you haven’t followed us on Twitter or liked us on Facebook, yet, you’re in danger of missing out on the best, strangest Opening Day [...]
Sports graphics are art. As such, they can reach into the gut. For some, the “Dodgers” script logo or the Boston “B” are as Botticelli’s Venus or Renoir’s Luncheon of the Boating Party. Symbols of something — a dream, an ideal, a memory, a way of life. The intersection of sports and design is an [...]
The Patriots are going to do the impossible and go undefeated for a season, knocking off the Giants in the Super Bowl. Mid-majors will get crushed in BCS bowl games. The Yankees look good to repeat in 2010. Butler vs. Virginia Commonwealth. Ladies and gentlemen, I present the last five or six years in conventional [...]
Let Us Now Praise Underrated Hitters: Mike Sweeney signed a one-day contract with Kansas City and retired a Royal on Friday. Having toiled largely in obscurity in Kansas City and finally in Oakland and Seattle, Sweeney never got his due for being a fucking hitting machine. But he was. For a four-year stretch from 1998-2002 [...]
One by one, sports in America have been ruining their postseason for the sake of making a buck. Hats off to Bud Selig, who has broken through the regular-season ceiling with his roundly panned six-game slate set for Thursday. A HISTORY OF CHASING THE BUCK Sports have a long history of screwing over fans in [...]