Highbrow Softball Heats Up: Media, Museum, and Broadway Leagues Go to Bat
Oil those gloves: the softball season of Manhattan’s typically nebbishy and not entirely athletically inclined media and arts institutions is now underway. What is in theory a casual morale-building...
View ArticleSoftball Report: Daily Beast Takes One for the Team…in the Face
A Newsweek/Daily Beast-er takes one for the team. The New York Media Softball League continues to heat up as landlocked editorial staffers channel their sublimated rage into line drives. Two-time...
View ArticleSoftball Report: Bonghitters Smoking the Competition, NewsBeast’s New Look
Highbrow softball season is continuing—full-swing, of course—through the summer. Monday afternoon’s game pitting The Paris Review against High Times betrayed the hyper-intellectualized and mellow...
View ArticleSoftball Report: WNYC Gets Some Fresh Air
WNYC Captain Brian Lehrer. Pledge drives finally translated into line drives for WNYC. They scored their first win of the softball season in a nail-bitingly close game against New York. The score was...
View ArticleBonfire of the Vanities: High Times smokes Vanity Fair
Last weekend was a bad time to be Rupert Murdoch. Not only did he shutter British tabloid News of the World after the phone hacking scandal reached epic proportions, but The Wall Street Journal’s...
View ArticleSoftball Report: Battle of the Superheroes
Photo credit: Howard Levy Spider-Senses were working overtime at the battle of comic publishing houses on the softball field as the Marvel Knights decimated DC Comic’s Bullets 19-4. Supermen and...
View ArticleNewsweek and The Daily Beast Learn Spirit of Teamwork
Although they had a rocky start to the season (and a broken nose), the team’s stats are now giving Tina Brown reason to celebrate the merger (recently christened again by the recent redirect of...
View ArticleWall Street Journal is Faster Than A Speeding Bullet
AAA Rating, affirmed: it would have taken Superman being placed in DC Comics’ batting lineup to overcome The Wall Street Journal last night. Wall Street may have had a rollercoaster week, but the...
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