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Let's meet the characters from 'The Catch'

'The Catch,' the new novel by Jon Weisman, is published!

Odds and ends

One month into my new life

September 11, before and after

When 'Friends' went wrong

Refunds for paid subscribers

A new beginning with the Dodgers

What do tattoos and the designated hitter have in common?

When black and white goes ... black and white

Fernando Valenzuela: Ranking the games that defined the legend

The nutty notebook

Slayed by Voices Extra: Pac-12, 10, 9, 7, 6, 4 ... gone

The three little chairs

Martin Luther King, human

Baseball's silent stat

Free 'Slayed by Voices'

Bonnie Raitt and Richie Havens join the Slaylist

Oppie in the sky, with diamonds

Farewell, Tony Bennett — and long live, Carl Erskine

'Electric Company' power: Lin-Manuel Miranda, William Jackson Harper and more

Photo essay: Hats from a box

Slaylist: 'Come Sail Away' triumphs on 'Freaks and Geeks'

Second-half storylines for the Dodgers

Broken social media is breaking my addiction

Door County, Wisconsin wins my heart

SPOILERS: All the ways that 'Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny' is an homage to 'Animal House'

Where time stopped: Visiting my childhood home

Embarrassing story No. 3: The Drunkest Week of My Life

Embarrassing story No. 2: The night I wasn't fired

Embarrassing story No. 1: The wedding flake

The WKRP Theme Song Multiverse

Slaylist: 'Night Moves' by Bob Seger

Interview: Ken Gurnick discusses Ron Cey and four decades writing about the Dodgers

Living treasures

Interview: Ron Cey talks about the experiences that led to his new memoir, 'Penguin Power'

Ten subtle pleasures (and three major flaws) in 'Animal House'

An American flag for all — or only some?

Grand Prix: A fast-paced tale of auto-eroticism

Why did I watch a baseball game Thursday?

TV, sports, old movies — you know, the usual

156 pitches in one game? What century is this?

'The Young Philadelphians' is another Paul Newman charmer

When the KKK nearly ruled the U.S. ... via the North

We're really going to have another presidential election, aren't we?

Sarah Langs is a Jim Valvano for a new generation

Dodger Stadium, safe at home

Senator Steve Garvey? His dream began nearly 50 years ago

Pride Day protest escalates to flag burning

The virtue of cowardice in 'The Americanization of Emily'

Film and baseball on a lazy Sunday

Homophobia is alive and unwell in North Hollywood

Slaylist: 'Surrender' by Cheap Trick

The mom who went after Amanda Gorman

Dianne Feinstein must offer one more act of service for her country: Retire

Fast Times at Ridgemont High: The book

Slayed Mailbag No. 2

Winning in May, Dodgers lose May

DeBunking DeSantis

Mothers, forever

Message in a battle

It's 1956, and Paul Newman is born

Slayed by Voices Extra: Lonnie Walker IV

Terror within 'The Trees'

One week of mass shootings: 117 shot, 40 killed

The most exciting opening minute in sports

And the Oscar goes to … whom?

Book review: 'Seventy Times Seven'

April flowers for Clayton Kershaw

The Oakland A's could be the worst team in MLB history

'American Pie' gone global

How long will I go fast?

Free 'Heavenly Creatures' and 'Circle of Friends'

Charlie Hamilton and the blues

'I’m so sorry, sweet girl'

The Clayton Kershaw 200

For the Slaylist: Calling 'Gloria'

In tribute to ‘In Memoriam’

Is it me? It's them, right?

A storyteller tells

When I was mean ...

They fought the Law School: Who won?

The Dodgers: Monday morning coming down

New Orleans journal: Part 3

A thought experiment: Gender and sports

Catching up

New Orleans journal: Part 2

New Orleans journal: Part 1

Caitlin Clark commands your attention

Major League Baseball returns, and it's fun!

Here's tippin' at you, kid

Nashville

Slayed Mailbag No. 1

The 2023 Dodgers: What up?

AMAA: Ask me almost anything

What now for Ohtani, Trout and the Angels?

Van life, 1976-85

Trea Turner takes it to town

TV's greatest newscasters, real and surreal

George is getting upset!

Top bananas and other airlines of our youth

Your legacy doesn't matter ...

UCLA men's basketball challenges the fates

The 2022 movies that mattered most to me

QUICK NOTE: Formatting issues

Punctuation time, come on!

The sadly endless relevance of Patty Griffin's 'Tony'

NBA scores go to the great beyond

Seeing Melissa Villaseñor and Brett Goldstein live

An underrated baseball movie finds its soul in a song

'Making this film was a constant process of letting go'

The education of Julius Barnes

Gavin Lux goes down — taking the Dodger infield with him?

Kevin de León outlasts the news cycle

Judge a book by these covers

Baseball rocks around the clock

The 35 Crises

The fragile depth of the Dodgers

New Slaylist songs: '70s easy listening edition

That's a wrap on 'Family Ties'

The lettuce cup

Stories from around the globe

This, and only this

Those bastards cut my brakes — what now?

Super Bowl stories: Field and Screen

Ted Lasso, Pretty in Pink

Maury Wills, the unicorn

The Oscar campaign that came in from the cold

Will the Boss live still thrive?

Fernando's 34 is being retired! Who's next?

Dear NFL: Guarantee your contracts

What do the Dodgers have in James Outman?

Around the U.S. in 51 plates

The murder of Tyre Nichols: Circumstances beyond his control

Short circuits

100 Movies (Plus 11) You Should Know and See While You Live

My summer in Half Moon Bay

'Just like honey, baby, from the bee'

Scathing Mr. Banks

Pinball lizards (Sorry, I'm in a rush and that's the best headline I've got)

The Dodgers might be down in 2023, but they aren't out

My new Patty Griffin obsession

Pico Boulevard is free fallin'

Hacky stack

Revisiting 'The Catcher in the Rye'

Pity the post office

Seven minutes in heaven with Jerrod Carmichael

Hoop dreams and nightmares at Stanford

The remorse of reveling in rain

'Eight Is Enough' stories: Adam Rich, Diana Hyland and ... Mark Hamill

Trevor Bauer is *not* a Dodger

Around the world in 280 seconds

The Speaker race is comedy. The Electoral College is tragedy.

David Milch's remarkable memoir

Damar Hamlin collapses on national television, and we hold our breath

Happy 2023 sale!