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It’s kind of a slow time of year for pro sports, especially with no World Cup or Olympic Games this summer, but what better excuse to indulge a sweeping sports history retrospective. We suggest Complex’s listicle of The 50 Most Badass Moments in Sports History, which includes some questionable entries like Zidane’s headbutting adventure, but [...]

Well, the recession’s hitting everyone pretty hard. It might be time to dust off the old Nintendo to get your gaming fix. El Presidente at Boston’s Barstool Sports, quite possibly the greatest sports blog on the internet, list the top 10 games.
http://www.barstoolsports.com/article/best_nintendo_games_all_time/136/

Listicles sports columnist Onesie here, back with a basketball-centric edition of Sporty Saturdays. In three weeks the 2009 NBA All-Star Game will be upon us, and as per usual I haven’t been hired as an extra mascot. I wouldn’t normally mind so much – though I apply every year they’ve only hired me once, then [...]

Professional sports, much like Star Wars, are riddled with pros and cons that, when taken too far, can be disastrous, delightful, or both. Someone who knows the starting line-ups of The Chicago Bulls for every NBA season during the 1980s is, we think, kind of sad. Likewise, someone who knows by heart the ventilation systems [...]

It seems like most major professional sports teams in the U.S. have undertaken a stadium change in the last ten years. In New York alone we have the new Mets stadium Citi Field, Yankee Stadium, and the Meadowlands’ Jets stadium all under construction. There are also more long term (likely imaginary) plans for a new [...]

Onesie here with another edition of Listicles’ weekly sports column, Sporty Saturdays. Since it’s a quiet time for my other gigs like freelance mascot work (most leagues are in their off-seasons right now) and sports writing (most publications are cutting back on freelance sports coverage), I’ve had lots of time lately to catch up on [...]

We’ve always felt that the sums of money being spent on professional sports – and the attendant industries of endorsements and entertainment – were a little obscene, and the good folks at Forbes recently confirmed that suspicion with a listicle of the most valuable franchises in the world.
So try not to think of the number [...]

Onesie here, back with another edition of Listicles’ weekly sports column Sporty Saturdays. I recently realized that although there has been ample year-end list coverage in these pages over the last couple of weeks, the ubiquitous sports-themed “best of 2008″ has been absent.
Though I’m especially busy around this time of year with freelance mascot gigs [...]

Freelance mascot and sports writer Onesie here, back for 2009’s first edition of Listicles’ sports column Sporty Saturdays. As 2008 reminded us, an entire year’s most lasting memories tend to be crammed into its last quarter (elections, financial crises, shoe-throwing incidents). Meanwhile, the summer Olympics in Beijing already seem light years away, but took [...]

This is Listicles sports columnist Onesie, stuck at the office while everyone else is on ski trips with friends and family, back with another edition of Sporty Saturdays.
While I don’t miss the skiing (as a freelance mascot I specialize in team sports), I have often volunteered as a first aid person on the slopes in [...]