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- Chris Jones on Dueling With GQ Writer Chris Heath for the Zanesville Zoo Story
- Who Kenny Powers Is Based Off Of, Whether He Could Beat Up Ricky Vaughn, the Sport Danny McBride is Actually Good At, and How He Learned To Pitch
- Now You Can Watch the Game That Inspired 'Hoosiers'
- Chris Ballard of Sports Illustrated on his Mike Powell Story "Man In Full"—And Way More
- Why Brandon and Katie Are Losers Who Don't Do Valentine's Day
- Did The New York Times Steal Someone Else's Column? Journalism and Copyrights and Wrongs
- Chris Jones of Esquire on His Zanesville Zoo Massacre Story 'Animals,' 'The Most Dramatic Story Of The Year'
- The Grind
- Thomas Lake on Pop Herring, How to Make It as a Journalist, Coffee, and Why You "Have To Get Yourself Good"
- Brandon and Katie Go To a Football Game
- Missed Opportunities
- Something Really Dumb That I Just Figured Out (A Mind Dump)
- Thank You
- Man Hangs Out With Wild Gorillas
- Eight-Point Buck Gets Stuck in Bedroom
- Jumping 12-Foot Fences and Other Things: Highlights From Christmas 2011
- Christmas Miracle: Comatose Man Readied To Donate Organs, Wakes Up
- Tim Tebow, Christianity, And True Faith
- Why I'm A Writer and Not A ... Anything That Requires Math
- The One True Purpose of Writing, According to John Steinbeck
- Learning from Meadowlark
- Why I Can't Wait For Christmas (And A Quick List of Where You Can Read My Writing)
- The First Legend: Meadowlark Lemon in SLAM Magazine
- The Trouble With Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
- Ninja Cat
- What To Write About
- Time-Lapse Video of Earth From the International Space Station Between August and October
- Men and Beards: 'Beards Teach Me,' A Guest Post By Adam Ford
- Men and Beards: The Debut — 'I May Go Wrestle Some Bears Later'
- Murmuration
- "In Bad Times, Good Face"
- One Of The Greatest Stories Ever
- David Roth Says Cool Things About 'Nobody Walks Alone'
- This Song Just Got Me Through Some Writing And You'll Love It
- Why You Should Write A Book
- Progress
- Making It As A Writer: Remember, It's All Relative
- "He Lives As If He Is Never Going To Die, And Then Dies Having Never Really Lived."
- The Giant in the Wheelchair III: It's Out. It's REALLY Out.
- The Giant in the Wheelchair II: Nobody Walks Alone
- The Giant in the Wheelchair
- HeyGoodCall.com
- Tell Me About Your 9-10-11. Mine? Two words: Bachelor party.
- Why I Wish NZT Was Real. Or, What I'm Up To.
- Video: Black Hole Devours Star, Is Awesome
- Why My Wife Rocks
- Moving. And cleaning. And, jeez, this sucks. And I need NZT.
- [Quote] The People for Me are the Mad Ones ...
- Vacation
- [Smoking] Today's Reason to Kill Smoking
- [Trailers] Movie Trailer of the Day: The Amazing Spider-Man
- Team USA Super Scorer Abby Wambach is Sort of B.A. [Video]
- [GoodSports] Hike the Appalachian Trail in Five Minutes
- [GoodSports] Movie Highlight: Jordan Rides the Bus
- Two Years
- "Grossly outnumbered [we] stood to fight." A Vancouver Police Officer's Response to Vancouver Rioter's YouTube Apologies
- Ridiculously GoodSports: Highlight Reel of the Day "Everything is Possible with Training"
- GoodSports: Jose Canseco, 46-Year-Old Player/Manager/Curious Person, Still Playing Baseball
- On Puking Puppies and Life
- The Case for Self-Publishing, via Amanda Hocking
- Do You Want to be a Successful Writer? Do You Want to be Published?
- Why Having a Stupid Dog That Stresses Me Out is Totally Worth It
- Say it ain't so, Cars 2. Say it ain't so. (Or: Pixar Finally Fails?)
- Medium Cheddar
- Seven Secrets to Being Way Too Happy For Monday
- Is It OK to be Demanding?
- What Dad Gave Me
- Good People Don't Need Jesus (But You Do)
- The Walk on the Beach Where we got Caught in the Rain
- On LeBron James (Updated)
- Ab Workout Fail
- GoodSports: NHL Finals Champ Patrick Kane Finally Gets Game-Winning Puck
- GoodSports: Texas Rangers draft paralyzed Johnathan Taylor
- GoodSports: Happy Birthday Prince
- GoodSports: Nick Vujicic, the No-Armed, No-Legged Lover of Life
- GoodSports: Dozer the Marathon Dog Raises $10,000 for Cancer Fight
- Backflip off the MGM Grand with Erik Roner and Travis Pastrana
- How to Drive a Golf Cart Into a Tree in Five Easy Steps
- GoodSports: Tiger Woods Donates $1 Million to Charity
- These People are Better People than Me ($45,000 edition)
- Twenty-One Things to Know about Harold Camping, the Dude Predicting the End of the Universe
- GoodSports: Boston Red Six icon David "Big Papi" Ortiz Hugging Strangers in NYC
- What Being A Freelance Journalist Looks Like, Graph-Wise
- El Cielo de Canarias—Or, Ridiculously Awesome Time-Lapse Video
- GoodSports NBA Dunk Contest Rewind: JaVale McGee Sets World Record in Dunking
- GoodSports: Peyton Hillis Don't Believe in No Curses
- GoodSports: The Humbled King
- GoodSports: Jaydin Goldenstein
- GoodSports: Now Surfboards Have Engines
- GoodSports: Why New York Adores Mookie Wilson (Jeff Pearlman, Wall Street Journal)
- VIDEO: Guys in Armor Swing Samurai Swords and Wolverine Claws at Carp ... While on Skis
- Osama bin Laden Told us Where he was in Dec. 2008
- GoodSports: For the Love of Justice: The Flogging of Human Decency in Silsbee, TX
- May the 4th be with you: Happy Star Wars Day, by That 70's Show
- GoodSports: The Lessons of Nathaniel Jones (Rick Reilly)
- GoodSports: Triathlete Saves Fellow Racer's Life, Finishes Race
- The Death of Osama bin Laden, the Conflict of Emotions, and Hope for America
- Thoughts on the Indians' Alex White's MLB debut
- GS Interview: "Mornings With Brant" Host Brant Hansen
- Swim for ZOE: The Essential GoodSports Story
- GoodSports: LaMichael Howell, Disaster Hero
- GoodSports: 'Dynamite': Keenan Cahill, Brian Wilson, Cody Ross, and Lou Seal
- Jerry Sands, the LA Sandman
- GoodSports: Back to the Wild
- For Family in Charleston
- GoodSports: Rebellious Kid Disobeys Father, Buys Super Bowl Ring, Returns to Owner
- Notes from the Road: Chicago II, Day 6, At Home
- GS Interview: Dicks Cottons CEO Rich Amundson (Part 2 of 2)
- Notes From the Road: Chicago II, Day 2
- THE COOPER REPORT, Vol. III: Cooper and Jack vs. Big Beasty
- GS Interview: Dicks Cottons CEO Rich Amundson, Creator of Snooki's Excellent Sunglasses (Part 1 of 2)
- GoodSports: Ernie Els & Son
- GoodSports: Brackets With Benefits Raises $10,000
- GoodSports: 11-Year-Old Kid Climbs Mt. Kilimanjaro
- GoodSports: The Cow That Became a Horse
- GoodSports, meet readers. Readers, GoodSports.
- Twenty-One Reasons to Hate the English Language
- 'We're Just Praying Cuts Are Done': A Few More Things About Life As A Minor League Yankee
- 'There's No Rules With the Amish, That's Part of the Problem': A Few Things About Blogging Awesomely in Amish Country, with Bryan Allain
- Duke Goes Down
- Why the Bullied Should Fight Back
- The Good, the Bad, and the Crazy in the Grocery Store Lines
- How Much Money Writers Really Make
- 'My Life Had Been A Party All Over The World': A Few Things About Getting Clean and Sober Without The 12 Steps
- Loyalty
- What Sports Give Us
- Surviving Wildfires, Part 4 of 4
- Remember That Time I Did Triathlon Stuff?
- Surviving Wildfires, Part 3 of 4
- Surviving Wildfires, Part 2 of 4
- Surviving Wildfires, Part 1 of 4
- 'A Few Things About....': An Introduction
- 'I've Been Living In A Comfort Inn': A Few Things About Life As A Pro Baseball Player
- Coolmore Plantation and Its Caretaker
- Finding My Way to The Edge of Legend
- On Trying To Replace Ed, The SUV That Carried Dozens of My Drunk Friends At A Time
- This Week's Get Out Column for the StarNews: Skinny Bikes
- The Lady Who Might Have Been A Prayer Ninja
- Wal-Mart Beer Buying Update
- How To Make Your Wife Happier Than Anything
- What's Wrong With My Generation? Disney Cartoons, That's What
- Blake Griffin Not The First To Dunk Over Car; LeBron To Become First To Dunk Over Giraffe
- On Lance Armstrong, Cheating, and Righteousness
- Are Richard Hunter and Michael Vick's Haters Treating Him Any Better Than He Treated His Dogs?
- Does Talent Demand Respect? Twitter Fight! Jeff Pearlman vs. Aaron Rodgers!
- How To Move Forward: Embrace The Doubt
- All we get is 650,000 hours, if we're lucky...
- The Villanova Student Managers
- Valentine's Day, Part 1 of 2: Five Things That Make Valentine's Day Stupid
- Prologue with Ben Steelman, tonight in Wilmington
- On Trying to Buy Beer at Wal-Mart
- Duke vs. UNC — Which Side Are You On? And Why?
- Paintball! Part III (a.k.a. Why I'm The Wimp Who Does That Instead Of Going To Egypt)
- My Achy, Breaky, Basketball-Loving Heart
- Radio Host Harrasses Michael Vick With Pictures of His Old Dog
- On Working on One Tree Hill; or, How to Win Mom of the Year
- Famous People Were Not In Top Form, and More: Super Bowl XLV's Top 10 Moments
- Jack
- Why Chik-Fil-A Can Do What They Want
- Picasso Charged $5K For One Pencil Stroke
- Liu the Invisibility Ninja
- The Basketball Chronicles: In the beginning....
- Outdoors column: Coyotes a Growing Nuisance
- Why I'm Sad and Relieved That a Federal Judge Ruled the Health Care Bill Unconstitutional
- The Catholic Church: Evil?
- Paintball! Part II
- Paintball!
- On Music, via Chris Jones's #MusicToWriteTo
- On Parents, and How They, Shockingly, are Kinda Useful, After All
- How to Be Legendary like Leonardo da Vinci and Martin Luther King
- DBFB: Learn From People Better Than Yourself, like James Franco
- On Becoming a Father
- At the funeral I was reminded of how to live life
- Son of Bold Venture. A new blog by a great writer who actually fails, too.
- Aaron Rodgers disses cancer patient
- Photo Story: Not your average (sized) Spider-Man
- It's All About Moving Forward—The Start Of My Guest-Posting At MyOneWord.Org
- To dare to live with great passion, with all the risks it demands: Lessons from Martin Luther King Jr.
- ______________ of the week
- On Lobsters, and How To Write (And Live) Greatly: A Lesson From A Quote from Chris Jones
- Idea of the Week: Living with Lions for a Month.
- Reaching from "The Beach" To "Millionaire" To "127 Hours," the Danny Boyle Success story
- Why people don't read our blogs. And what BrandonSneed.com is becoming about.
- Why A Writer Would Hate Blogging
- The Blog will return on Jan. 10
- Edge of Legend a perfect "Gift Idea for Your Sports Fan"
- Dec. 10 Free Stuff Friday Winner: Debbie Powers!
- Free stuff Friday - Free autographed books from Harlem Globetrotter Anthony "Ant" Atkinson!
- Upcoming Book Event: Sat., Dec. 18 at Dick's Hot Dogs in Wilson, NC with Ant Atkinson
- Upcoming discussion event: Get Published with Port City Publishing
- Jammin 99.3 folks are going to interview me about The Edge of Legend
- The Awesome People Series, Entry 4: Dave Talley, Homeless Hero
- The Story of My Story About the USS North Carolina in Our State magazine
- The rewards of writing a book
- Desperation can and does inspire
- A salute to the veterans
- The vision of a writer and how you (and Amazon) can help
- Because of the Toyota Highlander Kid, I almost bought a monster truck
- How to handle speeding tickets
- The week Josh Hamilton lost his faith
- The secret to a happy life (Part 1)
- The Awesome People Series, Entry 3: Katie Holloman Sneed
- People are seriously mad at someone for knitting warm things for cold babies
- The Sneeds are hitting the road. Where should we go?
- Highlights from my weekend in Wilson
- Hey Wilson, come get your copy of The Edge of Legend (book about Ant Atkinson) from me, personally!
- What God Wants You To Know
- Free Stuff Friday - More free books!
- An amazing story about a Pulitzer-prize winning story that wasn't a true story
- This week's Get Out column for the StarNews, Zac Adair
- How not to lose things like jobs
- The Awesome People Series / Entry 2: Rick Stewart
- And the winners are....
- Free Stuff Friday - Autographed books for everyone
- Success....as a writer, or baseball player, or anything
- The Awesome People Series / Entry 1: Jeff Pearlman
- Excerpt from The Edge of Legend - Chapter 30: "Wilson"
- Bringing back The Lighthouse Project
- Me on the FreshPod with Bryan Allain
- Thoughts on Sundays and Michael Vick from Cooper Jack Russell Terrier Holloman Sneed
- Notes - Working out, Ticking off Cooper, and more!
- What really matters when it comes to God
- The faith in THE EDGE OF LEGEND
- The return of The Lighthouse Project (again)
- Others > Self
- Ed Thomas and Small Town, Iowa, and What They Know That We Sometimes Forget
- Why Should I Blog?
- Why do I not like to blog?
- Book excerpt - Winter 1993
- Full tilt
- My first book is finally published
- How I'm so not like Jesus (shameless self promotion)
- Brandon Brinson
- Major Book Updates - Ant Atkinson will be at Barton's FCA on Monday, Sept. 20, 2010
- Marshall Mathers Part II: Justin Bieber, or, Celebrities and Why We Love Them
- Marshall Mathers, a man I want to write about
- Strawberries, and not the kind you want to eat
- Pete Rose is back in baseball, for a night
- The beauty of sports, as seen when East Carolina beat Tulsa
- Stud Karl Dimachki survives tongue cancer, sings on X Factor
- My life really isn't so bad, even when it feels like it (Part 1,872: Felicia)
- Humans, it's Cooper. That's right. I'm back. Again.
- How far would the God of the universe go for His children? Guest post by Karen Sneed, All Jesus Ministries
- The Internet has worn me out
- "Sneed is learning how to surf"
- Five Ways I Fight Writer's Slog
- Christians help stem cholera outbreak in Cambodia
- The most valuable lessons in life sometimes cost the most
- Featured Music - Sigur Ros, "Untitled 1" (a.k.a. "Vaka")
- Maybe we should sue the government....
- Next time you're in a traffic jam....
- Video blog update - Aug. 20
- The Story I Want To Live (or, "My Entry for Don Miller's Contest")
- Top 5 Work Songs
- Announcing EdgeOfLegend.com - The official website for my book about Ant Atkinson
- Highlights from the NYC trip: "Pure Organic Energy"
- Steven Slater
- The trip to NYC
- Introducing Featured Music
- Mr. Maddon doesn't need what he thinks he needs
- The greatest single cause of atheism
- Thoughts from an American in Senegal with the Peace Corps
- "The Pick" - Announcing the cover for The Edge of Legend
- The choice has been made
- Proud
- Which book cover design should we use for the book about Ant?
- What Inception Is Really All About
- When Barry Bonds Became a Super Villain (also: ARod, Eminem, Pres. Obama, and my dreams about them)
- And the win goes to the fan
- Finding Heaven in Haiti
- Seinfield....epic thriller?
- Christina Perri and The Living of Dreams
- Go [small] home
- Anniversary One
- BP
- Dreams
- Lil' bro Kramer to sign with the Yankees tonight
- RE: Gay Pride Day
- USA wins; Landon Donovan becomes hero; I almost weep
- Is God Really Good? The Oil Spill Edition
- Growing up sucks; is God really good?
- $50 million of your money gets spent each year to pay people to sit in empty rooms, and more fun facts!
- My story about Scott Johnson, the first man with cystic fibrosis to complete an Ironman
- What more could America be were retired doctors free?
- We went and took lots of pictures of Harlem Globetrotter "Ant" the other day
- Krames just got drafted by the Yankees. So what's that mean, anyway?
- Some folks just look a little "off" -- or is that the guy in the mirror?
- My (Blog's) Meaning of Life
- A very nice step forward - My story about the Spartan Race on ESPN.com Page 2
- The curious case of Jay Glazer
- LeBron's Legacy
- Sad - Al Gore and his wife, Tipper, are separating after 40 years of marriage
- Fishing
- Nicole Wick is fat and lazy....and doing something about it
- Old but great song -- Todd Agnew, "Unchanging One"
- I'm Trying Surfing. It Hurts.
- No guts, no glory -- and other cliched-but-effective ways of becoming a millionaire
- Santa of the Streets
- Sitting down kills
- Life Lessons From Triathlon: Appearances
- Life lessons from triathlon: commitment
- My second race; also, how you can help me make triathlon about helping others
- Will Ferrell makes his minor league baseball debut as Rojo Johnson
- Jon Krakauer's "Where Men Win Glory" -- specifically, his incredible ending
- Tri Update -- wetsuits are wonderful
- Entertainment vs. God vs. Politics vs. Stories .... a ramble
- "The Ark will never be found," and more goodness!
- Tri Update -- one of the most terrifying experiences of my life (or, my first open-water swim. With jellyfish.)
- What God wants
- His name was Hugo - homeless man gets stabbed while saving woman, dies in the street
- Owning your success - a guest post by Donald Miller
- I just read "Self-Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson for the first time....
- Tri Update -- yeah, I'm still doing this
- So, Todd surprised us all with an awesome comment on TLP
- Man takes 54 years to run marathon; still faster than me
- Obama fundraising speech dissolves momentarily into high school chanting match; nobody wins
- Analyzing Anger: How can I stop being angry?....[Part 2 of 2....at least I think it'll be just two]
- Triathlon stuff update - the final column
- Analyzing Anger: Why do motorists scream at cyclists? And more....[Part 1 of 2....at least I think it'll be just two]
- So, I'm gonna be on the radio
- Happy birthday to me - please get me something!?
- One of the many reasons I love what I do
- Tri training update - the race column and the thank yous
- Triathlon training update - the day after
- Triathlon training update - the day before
- Anne Jackson is Liam Neeson .... sort of ....
- Triathlon training update - 2 days to go and can't wait
- Triathlon Training Update - 3 days to go and still struggling
- So, I'm struggling to pull the trigger on this TLP re-launch
- Triathlon Training Update - 4 days to go and not going so well
- Triathlon Training Update - 5 days from the race
- Breaking down the new web site
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