There's a major showdown brewing for tonight: Dennis Publishing brothers Maxim and Stuff will take to the softball field for a fierce battle of Axe Body Wash-scented supremacy. The game takes on a new relevance, however, with the recent defection of former Stuff EIC Jimmy Jellinek to the top of Maxim's masthead,…
In a stunningly average display of athletic prowess and a minimal-at-best understanding of slow-pitch softball, the boys (and solitary girl) of CollegeHumor.com held off a furious last-licks rally by Maxim to defeat the mag, 15-13.
Obviously, we love summer softball. We love it only slightly less when it requires that we be at Central Park at 11 AM, as we were on Saturday, to play the disturbingly nice kids from the Wall Street Journal.
More mopping up this morning of last week's softball. Vanity Fair filed a report late yesterday on its Thursday-night drubbing of the Air America team — dubbed by the VF wits the "Pugnacious Progressives," "Blue-State Broadcasters," "Syndicated Seditionists," and "Left Dialers." Valiantly playing on the face of an…
In all the excitement Friday about Richard Johnson and Andy Pemberton and Leon Freilich's impending vacation, we somehow missed an important report in our inbox:
One wouldn't accuse the Vanity Fair softball team of being prompt with its postgame reports — they work at a monthly, after all, and you know the flexible relationship those kinds of people have with deadlines — but you've got to give them some credit: They're now posting reports on the public VF site, and they've…
We missed this Friday because our email wasn't working quite right. (Today our web browser isn't working quite right. Fun!) But we know you don't want to be left behind on any details of media-softball season, so we must pass on news, even if a touch belatedly, that BusinessWeek pulled out a come-from-behind 9-8…
The High Times softball team continues to steamroll its way through the media competition, pulling out a 13-4 win over the Vanity Fair squad last night. Editor-at-large Steve Bloom has a wrapup of the game, but there's no mention of VF's sartorial choices. We presume Graydon's kids wore tartan-plaid uniforms, and we…
As if isn't bad enough that The New Yorker took home only two National Magazine Awards last night, the far worse news is that the mag's softball team suffered its eighth straight loss to the fabled High Times Bonghitters. One bright spot: Apparently they've got spiffy new personalized uniforms.
BusinessWeek's less-streaming report is after the jump.
• Harvard sophomore Kaavya Viswanathan gets spanked for plagiarizing her debut novel. Little, Brown enters shame spiral for having given an underage hack a two book, $500K deal — they cope by pulling her bestseller from the shelves.
• People names its "beautiful people" and is rumored to have shelled out some $700K…
The first media softball of the season arrived this morning:
The sun is shining, the pollen is in the air, and that means one of our favorite times of year is right around the corner: Media softball season! And with that comes our favorite part of our favorite time of year: Media softball memos! And here's the opening pitch, an announcement of New York's first — and…
A tipster reports:
Yesterday we reported on Tuesday night's New Yorker-Gawker Media softball extravaganza in Central Park. Our summary:
Unfortunately, his lucky Gap khakis failed him.
No word yet on the big Today vs. GMA softball rematch. But here's a report from the VF-Cargo battle, which apparently primarily focused on the truly important part of any softball game:
Several games worth talking about this week:
In tonight's big media softball faceoff, Coach Dellinger's well-oiled New Yorker machine will take on the scrappy watchdogs of Columbia Journalism Review, who we believe will actually be playing rather than just umpiring.
So, yes, the legendary High Times Bonghitters beat The New Yorker on the softball field Tuesday night, and we carried a terse report yesterday, sent by a Bonghitter. But, as you well know, it's just not the same without New Yorker coach Dellinger's nicknamerrific wrapup — so it's a good thing that one of our…
