This may be inherent in the nature of an athletic career. The average NFL career lasts 3.2 years; baseball, basketball, and hockey between four and five. There are only 3,436 jobs available, with millions of potential applicants. In such a fiercely competitive industry, the last thing anyone wants to do is give any employer, no matter how open-minded he might believe him to be, a reason not to give him a chance. “If athletes could play until they were 65, they would not be in the closet their entire life, because people do not want to be closeted forever,” Buzinski says. “There is this feeling that I can compartmentalize this now and when I am out of my career, I can deal with it then.”

If there’s art to be found in the carnage of 9/11, it is at the periphery, among the ordinary and the living.

"Oh, my god; would you would let me do that?"

Jotham Sederstrom, 34, freelance reporter: On September 10^th, my friends took me out for birthday drinks in Chicago. I was out until three or four, I think, at a place called “The Hideout.” Among other places. I didn’t wake up until about noon, at which point everything had changed.

How’s that for honesty?

"Flicker & Flutter" - Future Islands

Texas – rich in so many things – is overflowing with poverty.

(But why am I reading this in The Guardian?)

The best part about this goal is not that it’s awesome (which it is) but that it was scored when the team was down 6-0.

237,500 might not sound like much to someone in Chicago or Los Angeles, but in normal urban America, especially in the Midwest, that is a lot of people. Try this: Jersey City: population 247,597. Or try Orlando, FL, population 238,300, meaning such a loss would leave it with about 800 people, or approximately the number of horticulturalists that the city’s Magic Kingdom employs. Madison, WI, population 233,209, would not survive such devastation, but at least it would get rid of Scott Walker. Likewise, so long Providence, Salt Lake City, Richmond or Baton Rouge.

The guy in the blue shirt, who is calculating the sales tax on his iPhone calculator, looks up at me and shrugs. “Who knows?”

It's going to be a long year

Covering 2012, Youths on the Bus

Joao Silva is a total badass

Immediately, there were medics working on me. I picked up a camera, shot a few frames. The frames weren’t very good, quite frankly, but I was trying to record. I knew it wasn’t good, but I felt alive. Adrenaline kicked in. I was compos mentis; I was on top of things. So, I made some pictures. I dropped the camera, then I moved to Plan B, which was to pick up the satellite phone. I called my wife, Vivian, and told her, “My legs are gone, but I think I’m going to live.” Incidentally, I’m a father of two. I passed the telephone on to the correspondent so she could continue the conversation and keep Vivian calm. Then I proceeded to lie back and smoke a cigarette. This is while the medics are frantically working around me, applying tourniquets, injecting me straight into the chest, and doing all sorts of really wonderful things. Those guys are amazing. They’re the ones who saved my life right there and then. The helicopter landed to take me to safety. I was completely conscious and totally awake, up until the moment that I got into the helicopter. That’s when I finally blacked out. I woke up in Germany, and then again at Walter Reed.

katiebakes:

I cannot stop watching this. I am shaking with laughter. (Thx, Dorothy!)

"Should we… go somewhere?" PURE, LEAD THE CHARGE.

That's one take

Q: Murph from NY is wrong about the universality of that nickname. Who is the most famous Murphy ever? Eddie Murphy. Have you ever heard of anyone calling him “Murph?” Nope. And it’s not just that we’re not privy to his inner circle. We’ve heard plenty of interviews and antecdotes about the man from friend and family going all the way back to his SNL days and nobody calls him “Murph.” He’s Eddie. Was it an ethnic thing or a celebrity thing?
— Teddy, Atlanta

SG: It can’t be an ethnic thing; if so, then how do you explain former NBA star Steve Smith being known by everyone as “Smitty?” I think it was more of a larger-than-life thing: Once Eddie’s career started taking off, everyone probably knew he was too big for a common man’s nickname like “Murph.” He just felt like an “Eddie,” much like prominent Canadian suffragist Emily Murphy probably felt like an “Emily” in the 1910s, and Peter Murphy definitely felt like a “Peter” when he was banging out creepy gothic rock music for Bauhaus in the 1980s. But Dale Murphy was one of the best power hitters of the 1980s … and everyone still called him “Murph.” He even released an autobiography called Murph. For famous people, you just can’t predict how the Murph/No Murph saga will play out. Well, except for Troy Murphy.

The other one is that we just randomly make up rules and alter them when needed.

I'm actually surprised these numbers aren't higher.

NASCAR fans are +40% more likely than non-fans to shop at Dollar General.

2.1 out of 4 people who shop at Dollar General (26%) are NASCAR fans, and they are more likely to be NASCAR fans than those who do not shop at Dollar General (20%). In other words, people who shop at Dollar General are +30% more likely to be NASCAR fans that those who do not shop at Dollar General.