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I'm of the opinion that you can't assume any player is/was clean, but if you have to pick a slugger to make that assumption about, Delgado seems like a good choice.—BK

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Why Hulu is winning the online video battle.—BK

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An informational session on the robotic vacuum cleaner rolls into unexpected territory.—BK

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The great Dan Kois attempts to apply the lessons of Michael Lewis's famous Shane Battier piece to his own pickup basketball game.—JM

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Brilliant profile. At times it's a maddening and skittish read, which seems to mirror the experience of spending time with Gervais.—JS

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Listing the four people most strongly associated with each team over the course of that franchise's history. A great idea, one that I wish I thought of first.—BK

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And here's the National League version.—BK

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A Jason Bateman profile that's not very in-depth, but hey, we'll take whatever we can get.—BK

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It's exactly the reason you'd expect: music licensing fees. Is there any entertainment medium left that hasn't had run-ins with the music industry over this stuff?—BK

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A look back at the NBA legend's brief foray into Major League Baseball.—BK

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Worth reading if only for the unintentional comedy of "Hershey's should bump up the nuts" and a semi-tangentially-related Google image search bit at the end of the piece that will leave you irreparably scarred.—BK

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Sixteen films that do exactly what the title implies.—JS

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If you're like me, you've always been mildly fascinated by the 18th century English writer Samuel Johnson, but not enough to read an entire book either by or about him. Well, now we're in luck: a Slate.com article about two new Samuel Johnson biographies!—JM

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Some (#1) are quite bolder than others (#2). That said, it's never too early to start thinking about baseball season, is it?—JM

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Plenty of people liveblog the Oscars; you can bet TWoP does it best.—JM

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Another sign of 30 Rock's underappreciation: in order to get a nice, long article about the best show on American television, we have to turn to the British.—BK

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This year's acting winners seem unlikely to be future candidates for this list (especially since one of them is, you know, dead). If only Mickey Rourke had won...—BK

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A nice take on the fallacy of trying to rewrite the baseball record books.—BK

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Making the case that Conan O'Brien will be great as the new host of The Tonight Show. He will, but the fact that this means we're that much closer to Leno in prime-time is taking some of the fun out of this.—BK

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You don't have to love the Mariners to get a warm tingle down your spine when you read this piece about the return of Ken Griffey, Jr. You merely have to love sports.—JM

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To tide you over until tomorrow, when PoopReading.com offers fresh, homegrown Oscar picks, here are some from the indispensable AwardsDaily.com—JM

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Having recently viewed it for a second time, I have to agree: it never really got a fair shake.—BK

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A thoughtful – if not necessarily groundbreaking – rumination on Abraham Lincoln in general, and how different generations have perceived Lincoln in particular.—JM

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As a topic, it's a horse that has seen better days, but the style of the piece and his theory on the difference in fan/media outrage between baseball and football players make it worth checking out.—BK

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He's abandoning TV for the internet. TV's loss, to be sure.—BK

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If you like "Fun Facts" on Letterman, you'll like these; the styles are very similar.—BK

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The man who predicted last year's election to within a mere percentage point turns his focus to Sunday's Oscars.—JS

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You know, if you just read a transcript of the show without watching it, you'd think every contestant was a 4-year-old.—JS

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Through a profile of the Rockets' Shane Battier, Lewis digs into the emergence of statistical analysis in the NBA. Can we just have Michael Lewis write all the in-depth sports profiles? Please?—BK

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An oldie but a goodie (though you do need to have at least a passing familiarity with the song).—BK

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Lengthy, entertaining profile of comedian Demetri Martin, he of the new Comedy Central smash hit Important Things.—JS

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A list that includes two famous players whose bans you might not be aware of (I certainly wasn't).—BK

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The first of many Oscar-themed links and posts you'll see this week.—BK

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In honor of pitchers and catchers reporting to Spring Training this weekend, here's a beautifully-crafted explanation of how 12 baseball pitches work.—BK

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A review of Ferrell and McKay's Broadway Bush impersonation sendoff, highlighting the informative power of comedy.—JS

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A fascinating exploration of the shifting factors influencing one of life's biggest decisions: wait for true love, or settle?—JS

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Leitch gives an in-depth recounting of his infamous April 2008 appearance on HBO's Costas Now.—BK

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Wasn't Grover Cleveland fictional? I mean, that name... come on. Put a colon in the middle and you've got the title of a regional Sesame Street spin-off.—BK

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I don't really follow the NBA when my Minnesota Timberwolves are bad (i.e., I don't really follow the NBA), but I feel like I get all I need to know from The Sports Guy's annual trade values column.—JM

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A writer for The Colbert Report gives advice on finding and keeping a, uh, genie.—BK

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Who says this economy isn't creating new jobs?—BK

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The former Texas Ranger waxes in context about A-Rod's decision to go Jose Canseco on us from 2001-03.—MW

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A fascinating look at a turn I'd like to see more struggling publications make: away from fast news and towards analysis and in-depth news.—JS

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To be clear: this is not, unfortunately, an offer being extended from the author to you.—BK

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SNL Transcripts always makes for good reading, and this is one of my favorites. It's got the Will Ferrell/Adam McKay stamp all over it, so if you like Anchorman and Step Brothers, you should like this.—BK

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Out of all the links we've posted, this one kept a smile on my face the longest.—JS

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Excerpts from his book, which everyone should read regardless of interest in show business or comedy, just to learn how his mind works.—JS

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I won't say that I agree with every word of this, but at the heart of it, there's an awfully good point.—BK

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A computer-generated sci-fi epic with grand ambitions to communicate the perils of war and racism fails to remember the principal rule of filmmaking: Do Not Suck.—JS

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Gotta love the subtitle: "Nobody liked him before the steroids, nobody likes him now."—BK

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After 24 years, they figure the "New Coke" debacle is erased from the cultural memory and we're ready to go back to basics.—JS

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Without giving away any of the titles, I can tell you that it manages to give some love to Albert Brooks, Steve Martin and Pixar, which is enough to win us over.—BK

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The title pretty much says it all.—JM

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Letterman's offhand, carefree incisiveness keeps him relevant even when his show isn't always at its best. Why to watch, even if you do so with your finger on the fast-forward button.—JS

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My kingdom for an AIDS Wolf/Minus the Bear double bill.—BK

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You can quibble about the rankings or the omissions (Bowfinger anyone?), you can complain that you can't get it all on one page, but the fact remains: it's still a chance to spend several minutes of your day reveling in Steve, and that's a wonderful thing.—BK

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Surely the only place to find Jerry Seinfeld, Wilco and Bill Belichick thrown together... that is, until my one-act play gets produced.—BK

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Exploring the legal issues surrounding Christian Bale's on-set tirade and bringing new meaning to the phrase "them's fightin' words!"—BK

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There are so many generalizations in this piece that, if you ever went to grad school, your brain will actually liquefy and drip out of your nostrils as you read this. You just won't be able to handle it. And the generalizations are pretty much right on, too, which will only make you madder.—JM

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I understand that war is hell. I understand that killing is not to be romanticized. That said, you must – must! – check this out; it's one of the best things I've read on the internet in ages.—JM

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The all-too-brief interview touches upon their recent reunion, new projects, and yeah, the whereabouts of those damn DVDs.—BK

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David Denby has seen the enemy, and it is this year's Best Picture nominees. (FYI: Contains a few small plot details that might be considered mildly spoilerish.)—BK

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The NFL season isn't really over until Gregg Easterbrook writes his Super Bowl column and hands out the Longest Award in Sports. Enjoy.—JM

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Searching for the interview about Phil Connors staying in Punxsutawney for 10 years in Groundhog Day, I found this. Which is also interesting, and reveals the early incubation of The Year One.—JS

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WALL-E director Andrew Stanton discusses the animation ghetto, and the trouble with sequels. (Hat tip, AC for the link.)—JS

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Number one on their list (and mine): those annoying head-box DVD sets The Simpsons used starting with Season 6.—BK

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May as well let the King sum up XLIII for us, no?—JM

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A profile of director Bob Fishman that details the incredible amount of effort that goes into making a successful TV broadcast of an NFL game.—BK