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All Hail Hull City
Pete Hausler
11.18.08
How hard can it be to find an English football jersey? Well harder than you think, Pete Hausler finds, especially when you are hunting for the gold and black of the Hull City Tigers, one of the year's great cinderella stories in all of sports. Art by Danny Jock
Mid-Atlantic Dreams: Postseason Baseball
Tom Flynn
10.03.08
It's playoffs time again, and frustrated with the way the season ended for two mid-atlantic teams - The Washington Nationals and the Baltimore Orioles (both wound up dead last in their divisions), Tom Flynn looks back to the days when the mid-atlantic region boasted postseason domination, with the Negro League Elite Giants and DC's Homestead Grays.
Detroit Schlock City
Adam Underhill
09.20.08
We still have a ways to go till Thanksgiving. That's the day the Detroit Lions annually offer up their gullets in ritual sacrifice to another football team for all of America, plump with turkey, to see. But after this year's awful season beginning, even cheesehead fan Adam Underhill is already saying enough is enough. Will someone please step in and save the Detroit Lions? Is it possible? The Giants came back from 0-2 to win the Superbowl last year. Maybe Fanzine's rant here will be enough of a psychic prompt to turn the tides for the motor city's beasts of burden. Uhh...yeah...
Gold Free Games
Tom Flynn
08.08.08
America, unlike a lot of small countries, expects its fair share of Olympic medals each time the torch lands somewhere around the globe. For smaller countries, those three disks of metal - gold, silver and bronze are a lot more elusive, especially that most esteemed medal, the gold. So hopes are often pinned on a sport or two, maybe one athelete even, while a bronze is nothing to be scoffed at, but lauded. Tom Flynn remembers the success of one Norwegian runner, who could stand as a lighthouse for other underdog countries as the Olympics begin in Beijing this week.
Brooklyn Nets, or Whatever
Adam Underhill
07.07.08
Some in Brooklyn are still pissed that the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles. Does the NY borough deserve another chance to hold onto a major league team? (Jay-Z thinks so, and who's to argue with him?) Adam Underhill says to Brooklyn, meet your Nets, or whatever they'll be called, and Nets meet your new hood. Art by Danny Jock.