RIP, The Ultimate Race

Not sure how I missed this, but the Mag's web site, which folded itself into the ESPN Insider umbrella late last spring, posted my final episode of The Ultimate Race, a dynamic duel worthy of Katz's vs. Shwartz's.
Read it, and pour a little beer on the curb. For civilization.

Memphis in the meantime

Get your summer college basketball hoops fix on ESPN Insider, where you can find out how the Memphis Tigers are adjusting to the loss of John Calipari and a bunch of players who made him look good, and where you can learn the identity of the young man who posted this on Twitter:

"Imma shoot somebody if I don't get no pizza sometime soon"

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Like we said...

...the new swimsuits have ruined swimming.

Instead of developing regulations akin to WADA's doping protocols, swimming got swamped in technology's wake. Morgenstein jokes that FINA's testing regime is "three guys in Switzerland with a bottle of scotch and a bathtub."

Sorry about that, Mr. Phelps.

Speaking of local flesh-eating

What wins the taste test, Katz's New York pastrami or Shwartz's Montreal smoked meat?
Smoked meat, of course!
I'm fiending for a Cott's Black Cherry soda about now.

The out-of-towners

I like 7 Days Vermont. I really do, and think it's a pity it doesn't cover the west side of the lake more often. So I was excited to see this week's ADK issue. Then I opened it, and found a story on... Michigans. Don't get me wrong. I love Plattsburgh's dogs. And it's not a bad review. But Michigans have been written about. A lot. By Gourmet magazine, even.
And the mistake in the first graf...

The city known to many as Wiggletown

...immediately signaled an exercise in pith-helmet journalism.(Wiggletown, for the uninitiated, is not the city but a neighborhood). Kinda smug, kinda condescending, kinda "look at the natives in their festive dress." Plus, going to Gus' without getting a shake is borderline criminal. 7 Days, you can do better.
Wow, I'm seething with Vermonster resentment. Like a native in festive dress.

The swimsuit issue

My take on high-tech floaties, here, if you're paying for it. If not, subscribe today!

On vacation

If I weren't, I'd have been tempted to do this.