ESPN.com & Sportsjones

Sportsjones, the brainy online sports magazine, was bought out in 2001 by ESPN.com, who stopped the site and hired the 'Jones' top editors. When I work for ESPN, it's usually with them.

The Cuban Senators
Julio Becquer and the Last-Place Cuban-Flavored Teams of 1950s D.C.
ESPN.com - March 11, 2002

No Mo, Thank Heavens
Why the Angels Will Be Better Without Mo Vaughn -- and Why Statistics Underestimate the Defensive Value of First Basemen
Sportsjones - April 12, 2001

Hunter Thompson, Online Columnist
How the Man Who Launched a Thousand Newspaper Careers
Ended up at ESPN.com
Sportsjones - January 4, 2001

A Season to Remember
New Book by Texas Prof Does Admirable Job of Chronicling the '97-98 Cuban Baseball Crisis
Sportsjones - November 17, 2000

The Perils of Nostalgia
New Book on Cuban Baseball Doesn't Let Facts
Stand in the Way of a Good Ideological Rant
Sportsjones - April 11, 2000

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