The Syphilitic Magic Number*

After last night’s 6-2 loss to the mighty Oakland A’s dropped their record to 1-9, the Baltimore boys of summer’s magic number now stands at … * – tracking the Baltimore Whorioles magnificent march toward an 87.5+ loss season, all…

Hit-and-Run America Vol. XLIV

An ongoing collection of unsolved hit-and-run cases, with a focus on car/pedestrian incidents, from across the country since Jan. ‘010. If you know something about any of these incidents, or one that I’ve missed, do the right thing and call…

Where in the world is Freddy Adu?

Aside from Selena Roberts’ excellent piece about Tiger-as-faker, porny-stripper-as-keeping-it-real, this week’s Sports Illustrated attempts to answer the question posed in this post’s header. The short answer: In Greece, watching feral dogs roam while trying to reclaim his perceived birthright as…

This Week’s Metro Column…

… is here, in its draft-form entirety. Enjoy. Spend. Remember your first inkling that Philadelphia was careening toward fiscal calamity, the type of wallet-drainer not imagined since Ed Rendell’s pom-poms distracted us from – among many cold realities – that…