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Have You Tried to Predict This Super Bowl? Because Don’t.

For everyone making Super Bowl predictions, I have a couple of questions:  What exactly are your predictions based on? Is there any logic or analysis behind them?  Or is it all just hunch?

I'm asking because I've been doing Super Bowl predictions for 20 years and have written three books on professional football and countless Read More

Former Footballer Tries Not To Fumble In Cutthroat NYC Culinary Scene

After 10 years of getting bruised and battered by the biggest linemen and linebackers in college and professional football, former West Virginia University and Pittsburgh Steelers standout Amos Zereoue is now trying to finesse his way to success in the smash-mouth New York City restaurant scene.

Which is tougher?

"Life in the New York restaurant scene--hands Read More

How Gay Is Vito?

Last week, the actor Joseph Ganna-scoli—who, as Vito on The Sopranos, is living out this television season’s only great tragic love story—was tooling around Lynbrook, Long Island, in a new silver Mercedes R350 with a back seat filled with flowering plants. He was wearing a Giants sweatshirt and sneakers, and was taking a reporter on Read More

How Gay Is Vito?

Last week, the actor Joseph Ganna-scoli—who, as Vito on The Sopranos, is living out this television season’s only great tragic love story—was tooling around Lynbrook, Long Island, in a new silver Mercedes R350 with a back seat filled with flowering plants. He was wearing a Giants sweatshirt and sneakers, and was taking a reporter on Read More

The Journalist and the Jock: A Football Fan Grows Up

Confessions of a Hero-Worshiper , by Stephen J. Dubner. William Morrow, 261 pages, $24.95.

Where were you on Dec. 23, 1972? Stephen Dubner and I were both watching the A.F.C. divisional playoffs on WRGB-NBC. He was in upstate New York, I was in western Massachusetts. His TV was small and black-and-white; mine was small and color. Read More