My favorite part:

“I could never do what these guys do,” Tom Matthews, 34, said. “But what I find most moving is when they sum up these apparently inconsequential stories with poignant closing sentences, often just a few seemingly inane words—or perhaps even a separated quote that’s given its own standalone closing paragraph—intended to make the reader ignore the previous 872 words of mindless filler and take a moment to think about sports’ overall influence on who, ultimately, we are as a nation and a culture.”

“It’s simply ingenious,” Matthews added

The Onion is often, strangely, the most truthful source of news