Black Shorts, White Legs
IT’S HOT LIKE A MOUTH and I’m in from out of town to see my sister. Correction. I’m home to see my sister. The weather is right and we’re perfectly guilty from indulging in last night’s barbeque – a...
View ArticleThe Round Bus: August 10, 2012
What did we learn this week? Well, that Kerry Fraser and figure skating don’t own a monopoly on bad officiating, that NBC has become their own unwatchable sitcom, the Second Amendment kills people, and...
View ArticleStan Smith
Dublin, 1971 MARY QUINN IS ABOUT TO WIN the national varsity women’s title. Again. She is a dominant woman on the court with dominant thighs. She has a penetrating forehand and an incredible short...
View ArticleThe Round Bus: August 31
And with that the Labour Day weekend is upon us. I hope like the Barnstormer crew, y’all are wearing the good goddamn out of your whites for the next three days before we pack those bright slacks up...
View ArticleBlood, Sweat, and Years: Andy Murray and the US Open
How Hollywood, Hitler, a gay Nazi poster boy, and US OPEN tennis champion, Andy Murray, star in one of sport’s greatest grail quests. IN 1934, SHORTLY AFTER ADOLF HITLER’s rise to power, German...
View Article150 or Bust: A Sort-of Tribute to Andy Roddick
ANDY RODDICK RETIRED FROM PROFESSIONAL tennis last week, making good on his promise to quit at the end of his US Open run. Rather than focus on any specific aspect of Roddick’s career – that stuff will...
View ArticleTwo Poems by Diane Elayne Dees
The Lesson of Caroline Up and down and side to side she sprints without fatigue. The match can last for hours; the Dane will scarcely shine a bead of sweat or fail to stretch and meet the ball right...
View ArticleThe Round Bus with Jon Paul Fiorentino: June 28, 2013
It was a week of victories for good over evil, and we don’t get to say that often enough. DOMA was struck down. Senator Wendy Davis of Texas filibustered an anti-abortion bill to death. But we won’t...
View ArticleThe Round Bus with Jake Goldsbie: July 12, 2013
The Barn has a fair amount of experience with Russians, so perhaps we were the only ones not surprised by Ilya Kovalchuk’s retirement from the NHL yesterday, ostensibly to return home to Russia to play...
View ArticleThe Round Bus with Jon Elmer: August 30, 2013
Well, here we are dear Barnstormers, sitting on the precipice of the baseball postseason, the NHL preseason, and the next World War. It’ll be nice that come next week American’s will know where Syria...
View ArticleThe Round Bus with Sean Cranbury: September 20, 2013
Ian Orti is not on the Bus today. The last we heard from Orti was Tuesday evening, Eastern Standard Time, in a text message sent to Barn HQ that read simply, “Currywurst sold for Barcelona. EPL. EPL....
View ArticleThe Great Gottfried
Did a gay German tennis star throw the most prestigious tournament of his time just to spite Hitler? If all the world’s a stage then the cast of the great international pre-war epic, The Greatest...
View ArticleBlood, Sweat, and Years
How Hitler, Hollywood, sweatbands, popped collars and liquid robots star in one of sport’s greatest grail quests. IN 1934, SHORTLY AFTER ADOLF HITLER’s rise to power, German tennis star...
View ArticleBlack Shorts, White Legs
IT’S HOT LIKE A MOUTH and I’m in from out of town to see my sister. Correction. I’m home to see my sister. The weather is right and we’re perfectly guilty from indulging in last night’s barbeque – a...
View ArticleBlood, Sweat, and Years: Andy Murray and the US Open
How Hollywood, Hitler, a gay Nazi poster boy, and US OPEN tennis champion, Andy Murray, star in one of sport’s greatest grail quests. IN 1934, SHORTLY AFTER ADOLF HITLER’s rise to power, German...
View Article150 or Bust: A Sort-of Tribute to Andy Roddick
ANDY RODDICK RETIRED FROM PROFESSIONAL tennis last week, making good on his promise to quit at the end of his US Open run. Rather than focus on any specific aspect of Roddick’s career – that stuff will...
View ArticleStan Smith
Dublin, 1971 MARY QUINN IS ABOUT TO WIN the national varsity women’s title. Again. She is a dominant woman on the court with dominant thighs. She has a penetrating forehand and an incredible short...
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