Emily O’Leary, for “DMC for MVP!”

Latest Hit Points from Summer Anne Burton. 

David Rappoccio, for Jonathan Bernhardt’s sad story of baseball recruiting in South Korea. 

“Jean-Paul Sartre, White Sox Fan” by Dmitry Samarov

from “Hell is Other People’s Fantasy Teams”

Maddison Bond’s art for “The Ballad of Luke Babbitt.”

Josh Smith, by Joseph Applegate.

Read Lang Whitaker’s “The Josh Smith Question.”

The latest Hit Points from Summer Anne Burton. 

Anthony Davis, by Joseph Applegate. From “Anthony Davis in Space.” 

Rajon Rondo by Eli Neugeboren. Published with Paul Flannery’s “Studies in Rondology.”

David Roth’s close reading of Donald Sterling hilariously, repulsively sexy 2003 deposition will make your arms rot, in a good way. It even inspired @LegoMario to recreate Sterling’s most choice quotes, in all their loathsomeness, via the magic of talking moving images.