Football

Hey Coach, Got a Two-Syllable Name? Kiss the Super Bowl Good-bye!

When it became clear that Bears third-string quarterback Caleb Hanie was going to be the team’s signal-caller for the remainder of the NFC Championship Game, I picked up my cell phone to text my friend John.

“Caleb hanie??” I wrote.

“Yeah,” John texted back, “u know yur [screwed] when yur football team depends on a guy named Read More

Giants Fans at City Hall

A reader safely tucked into her office at One Centre Street sent this picture from far above the festivities celebrating the Super Bowl victory of the New York Giants.

"This is madness," writes the reader. "I’m already panicked about how to get lunch."

It took me about 30 minutes to work my way through the Read More

Maxim Gets Stuff-ed, And More

Yesterday, Alpha Media Group–the name for the investors backed by Quadrangle Capital Partners who bought Maxim, Blender and Stuff from Dennis Publishing yesterday for more than $240 million–announced plans to fold Stuff, the shopping-centered T&A men's magazine, and resurrect it as a regular section in its lad mag, Maxim.

Maxim and Blender will be the Read More