Robert O'Connell

@robertfoconnell

Writer at The Atlantic, The Guardian, NY Times, and elsewhere. oconnell dot robert dot f at gmail

Minneapolis, MN
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    Jul 16

    For the evening crowd, my very-fun-to-write and hopefully-fun-to-read latest at : When CC Sabathia and Manny Ramirez Broke Baseball

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    9 hours ago

    Darren Sproles is everything he shouldn't have been.

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  3. 9 hours ago

    My NFL preview is: Darren Sproles Is Back

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    10 hours ago

    With the 2018 NFL regular season kicking off, the league continues to struggle with explaining why the most talked-about player in football isn’t on the field, writes

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  5. Aug 5

    Yesterday , wrote about the fun of watching T.O. and Moss a) shred defenses and b) rankle the NFL establishment.

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  6. Jul 31

    10 years ago today, Manny Ramirez got traded to the Dodgers and baseball got a whole lot awesomer.

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  7. Jul 31

    Digging to the bottom of the drawer to celebrate the holiday.

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  8. Jul 20

    Once more before the weekend: On CC, Manny, and the bonkers second half of '08

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    Jul 17

    The MLB All-Star Game’s arrival in Washington, D.C., coincides with the worst struggles of Bryce Harper’s career, argues

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  10. Jul 17

    🎵future butterfly, gonna spend the day

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    Jul 17

    The MLB All-Star Game’s arrival in Washington, D.C., coincides with the worst struggles of Bryce Harper’s career, argues

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    Jul 17

    Friends, I'm inviting you, and you, and you. Please come!

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    Jul 16

    10 years ago, the CC Sabathia and Manny Ramirez trades broke the mold for MLB deadline deals.

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  14. Jul 16

    This one was outrageously fun: let me write about the coolest half-season of baseball I've ever seen.

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    Jun 11

    I wrote a thing about Lorraine Gordon, someone I'll miss terribly, with guest appearances by , , , , , and .

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    Jun 9

    If the Warriors' previous two championships indicated some kind of newness, this year’s reflected a team cognizant of, and comfortable with, its advantages, writes

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    Jun 4

    Bartolo Colón belongs to a grand tradition of older baseball players, writes. But as the game gets younger, is the Texas Rangers pitcher the end of the line?

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    Jun 4

    This joke is more labored than Lucille O’Neal was on March 6, 1972, when she was giving birth to the abnormally large basketball star we know as “Shaq”

    Progressives are shooting themselves in the foot more frequently than a centipede who quite frankly is "getting no relief whatsoever" from a topical application of a generic anti-fungal toenail cream.
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  19. Jun 4

    Thanks to for letting me bounce back from bummer Finals vibes by writing about Bart.

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    Jun 2

    We're getting another Maria vs. Serena match, so I wrote about that and about being logged on

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