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The 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 GQ.com. For this final post, I asked everyone who has contribute to FreeDarko to tell me what the hell "FreeDarko" (adj.) meant to them, or what the blog meant to them, or something...
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April 10, 2011
Discuss
You 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. I'm primarily a baseball writer and as such I can't help but turning to childhood memories and nostalgia. It's a reflex. It can also be a coping mechanism. I can...
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March 31, 2011
Boston, 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 (tomorrow). It's going down at 8pm at the Middlesex Lounge in Cambridge. Details are here, hope to see you there.
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March 27, 2011
Shoals 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. -For TheAtlantic.com, a piece titled, simply, "Deconstructing Jimmer". -The formidable Jonah Keri had Eric Freeman and I on his podcast, and we brought with us some haunted spirits that messed up the technology. Nevertheless, a spirited...
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March 24, 2011
Where 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 Madness over at TheAtlantic.com. -My take on Onion News Network for AlterNet. And more on the way...
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March 18, 2011
Cultures 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 give his talk, but the Big Ten Tournament was to begin on Thursday and, while my students weren’t actually scheduled to play until Friday, I’d already received the...
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March 13, 2011
FD 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!
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March 11, 2011
Cultures 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 class, the fantasy image flashed into the slide projector of my mind: an intra-class pickup game. The still image sprang into motion: all of us going up and down the court at...
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March 09, 2011
TWO SNAKES
TWO SNAKESorone reporter's opinion 0. the world according to nouns I've seen some **** that nobody else has. A willowy poet putting up either 7 or 8 points every quarter of every game for a decade, turning nonce-jumpers and floaters from a defense's seams into inevitability incarnate. A 6-3 would-be shooting guard running a team, leading it in assists, rebounds, steals...
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March 08, 2011
Abjection 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 of posting I have to take care of on these parts.Because Twitter has gone altogether useless, and there's no such thing as having weighed in recently enough, or collective memory...
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March 07, 2011
Voyage 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 passion. This visit is all about ghosts, sometimes even the NBA. Eric Freeman is on board, too. You won't want to miss this one. This is only the beginning.
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March 03, 2011
You Shake And Dance 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 dominated by the Bucks and their meteoric rise to a title and to perennial contention. But all that changed forever in the summer of 1975. The knowledgeable among you are thinking thatâ...
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February 25, 2011
SAN 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 coke. But feel free to bring me pills if you want. Also I am trying to figure out if I broke a law by posting/typing this. I have to call my insurance company now. See you tonight!
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February 24, 2011
Madvillainy
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, probably more than any other team, but the gap between it and other elite teams is more crack than chasm. Consider Boston, which must regularly confront geographic enmity, Paul Pierce...
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February 22, 2011
What 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 Knicks, if you missed it. I didn’t plan it this way when I designed the syllabus, but it seems especially appropriate to be teaching, thinking, and writing about the old ABA during...
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February 21, 2011
"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 wouldn't have jumped over a car. I would've jumped over a giraffe!"BUY OUR BLAKE PRINT HERE.Plus, additional happiness: Ziller and I reunite to grade the Skills Challenge...
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February 21, 2011
Merriment 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: I've convened this meeting under the cover of darkness because that dunk contest left me all emotionally bedraggled. Like it was far deeper than the usual "yay" or "...
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February 20, 2011
FD 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 if you're in town. If not, cop the print, in one of three colorways, at the newly re-opened FreeDarko Imperial Outlet. Buy some other stuff, too!A few links:-If you haven't already, take a look...
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February 18, 2011
Dunk 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 before. Sure, there's stuff about school in there, but even if you have no interest in academia or pedagogy, there's still a good 2,000 words on basketball and culture...
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February 17, 2011
Don't Wait For Me
It's on FanHouse, yes, but Eric and I really kept saying "****, these made-up insulting NBA Valentines really belong on FD". Unfortunately, I had to stop short of having Dolan called Walsh a "******* cripple" because it was on AOL. Believe our recommendation.
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February 15, 2011
Semi-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 this blog—or any, for that matter—rarely consider: trying to break into professional basketball, without the benefit of McDonald's hype or D1 exposure. Wayne kept...
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February 09, 2011
I 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 until now. You can tell that from how heavily it leans on a long-ago Simmons column. Enjo!
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February 01, 2011
Catch 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 proud of. Yago homed in on my view of Mikan as the first true individual in the game, and in doing so, drew out the definition of "modern" that begins around...
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January 31, 2011
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 columnist Seth Kolloen. Trust me, you don't want to get just me and the electronic noise machine like Portland did.2/24: SAN FRANCISCOGet ready for fear ... Green Apple Books is...
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January 27, 2011
Ain't No Use Clutchin' At The Butter
Or, if for once you want a title that makes sense, "Who Owns a Meme"?I don't claim to have invented the "Positional Revolution". That would be the players who dared to do fifteen-hundred things at once, or the coaches subverting the conventions of their day. But I do know that I coined the phrase, started the conversation (on the internet) at least, and, have...
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January 25, 2011
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