EXPRESS YOURSELF: The New York Sports Express, the very good offshoot of New York Press that started the other month, now has an almost-fully-functional website. While you're there, check out the best piece in the short history of the NYSX: Matt Taibbi's "Sports Crime Blotter" column on the colorful history of mascots in baseball, specifically the Pittsburgh Pirates' Pirate Parrot, who was the middle man in that team's early-'80s drug ring.
Posted by Stephen Silver at September 9, 2003 12:11 AM