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Michael Lewis' Moneyhaul

At this point, the soul of professional sports is beyond worrying about: Athletes are frantically self-interested; marvelously self-absorbed; always looking for any edge, however unfair; and forever leaping from team to team in search of a few more dollars. In other words, the jock market already has the morals of the stock market.
That's the last paragraph of "The Jock Exchange" Michael Lewis' contribution to the premier issue of Portfolio. It's also a $636 paragraph, if this anonymous commenter at DealBreaker is to be believed. More »

4:47 PM on Wed Apr 18 2007
By abalk2
1,936 views, 12 comments

Latest by Trackback: I’m not sure if this explains the Michael Lewis “Jock Exchange” piece or means it’s even more frustrating that there’s still so much A’s material in there…but there are rumors (via Gawker via Dealbreaker) that Lewis is making $12 a more »

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We Read 'Portfolio' So You Don't Have To

Let us begin with the cover of Portfolio. It's a gilded city image, a metropolis of lit-up office windows in earth tones, oddly, as it is supposed to be an homage to Berenice Abbott. (A funny reference, as she was told that New York City was too toxic for her to live in and so she left.) Publisher David Carey and Editor in Chief Joanne Lipman are shown in the Times this morning comparing their cover favorably to a recent Fortune cover, with Carey saying, "We're not giving you peas and carrots. We want to capture that glamour." By that measure things are certainly already a success; the magazine certainly weighs as much as Glamour. More »

4:15 PM on Mon Apr 16 2007
By abalk2
6,420 views, 12 comments

Latest by Trackback: DreamWorks We thought we'd made it clear. You are either with Si Newhouse, or you breed kittens in Hell for terrorists and demons to eat. Nevertheless, for some media watchers, the launch of more »

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Michael Lewis Worshiping at Celebrity Baby-Naming Altar

We're very happy for Moneyball author Michael Lewis—he's got a new baby, and that's occasion for another Slate column about birth of said baby. But we think Lewis might have misplaced his anxieties about his older daughters' rivalry with their newborn brother. He fails to mention that by giving his children the names of Quinn and Dixie (girls) and Walker (boy), he's doomed them to lives of ridicule anyway. Who does he think he is, Gwyneth Paltrow? More »

3:40 PM on Fri Jan 19 2007
By Doree Shafrir
175 views, 12 comments

Latest by thechief_nyc: So the man who once wrote an article about the perfection of his wife's (now ex-wife) ass is now writing an article about his new wife, Tabitha Sorenberger (I'm sorry, Soren) is pushing out little ones like now tomorrow. Oh more »