The name says it all: mailbox baseball -- smashing mailboxes with a baseball bat or, occasionally, a golf club. ...more

November 28, 2008

Think of the Florida Gators' Saturday afternoon as an open date, except with a performance by the marching band. ...more

November 23, 2008

If Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission biologist Adam Warwick ever gets tired of his job, he can always join "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom" or become the new Johnny Weissmuller, a former Olympic swimmer who rose to fame as Tarzan. ...more

July 2, 2008

Some rock bands accelerate their tempos when they perform their old songs decades after the fact. Playing fast is a kind of armor: a refutation of the plain reality of aging - all that unregainable enthusiasm and lost muscle mass - and a hard block against a band's lessened cultural importance. ...more

December 13, 2007