National
As of yesterday, the Beetle’s back. Not that it ever really went away. Volkswagen’s original vehicle was the yet-to-be-nicknamed Beetle, designed by Ferdinand Porsche and produced in 1938. The second-generation version, rolled out in 1998, saw the “people’s car” become “your girlfriend’s car” (in a Lilith Fair-y way) and proved … Read More
“A car like this,” we are told, “deserves a world stage.” The car in question is the 2012 Volkswagen Beetle, we are a room full of journalists, and the world is a fairly nifty 24-hour cascade of vehicle reveal events that kicked off in Shanghai, continue now in New York, and … Read More
Call me old-fashioned, but I like my royal weddings to be cold, loveless arrangements contracted solely to consolidate political power. If a guy gets to be King and still marries his college sweetheart, it makes the whole monarchy thing seem kind of dated. Still, some people are actually stoked about … Read More
While you may think serves the bugger right whenever some marathoner has a heart attack and dies at mile 18, or some mountaineer’s hypoxia tricks him into stripping naked and leaping from an ice cliff, the death of a NASCAR racer is serious business to the sport’s fiercely loyal fans. … Read More
Pray hockey’s Golden Boy is still golden. Sidney Crosby, the undisputed face of the NHL (and the 2009 Stanley Cup-winning captain of the Pittsburgh Penguins), suffered hits to the head in back-to-back games this January. The second left Crosby with concussion symptoms of dizziness, headaches and loss of focus. He … Read More
