Stephen Rodrick
Stephen Rodrick
Stephen Rodrick is an American journalist who is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and a contributing editor for Men's Journal. He also writes for Rolling Stone. Rodrick writes mostly about politics, film, and sports, often following his subjects around for months before writing...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
CountryUnited States of America
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In college football, fans wallow in a culture of failure. Unless you root for Miami, you sadly wait for disaster to strike your team in a manner not seen outside of Fenway Park.
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I've seen few things more depressing than the end-of-season Giants-Padres series in 2001 in which Barry Bonds hit his 68th homer of the year while a .227-hitting, rapidly fossilizing Rickey Henderson staggered like a delirious marathoner toward 3,000 hits.
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Before Angelina Jolie became a humanitarian, she was best known for wearing a vial of blood around her neck and kissing her brother.
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Lance Armstrong has a 17th-century, 15-foot Spanish fresco of the crucifixion hanging on the wall of his Austin mansion. This doesn't mean - and some of you Armstrong acolytes might want to sit down for this - that Lance is Jesus.
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There's no doubt Matt Leinart loves his son very much.
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There are times when a sports figure doesn't deserve sympathy.
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The everybody-loves-Jeff Bridges home base is, of course, 'The Big Lebowski.'
All backups take their cue from Elrod Hendricks, the patron saint of erstwhile catchers.
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The thing about living without a father if he's always gone is that it takes a long time to realize he isn't coming home.
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I arrive a month premature, with my dad's brains but not much else.
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From the outside, Rick Rubin's house above Zuma Beach is a generic millionaire beach home. There's a rarely used tennis court and a circular drive.
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I tested in the top percentile for IQ, but I couldn't tie my shoes or really ride a bike without training wheels until I was almost 7.
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There are many reasons why I hate college football. The 4-hour games drone on longer than Steve Lyons during the American League playoffs. The ever-expanding season threatens to creep into early July. Boise, Idaho, hosts a bowl game. And it's played on blue artificial turf.
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James Salter has been a fighter pilot, a rogue, and a climber. He counts Robert Redford as a friend.