He called on California newspapers to pull the offending strips. (None did.) "We simply have to tell people the basic facts about what this initiative does, " says Lungren.

CNN: Richard Lacayo

And it's freakishly hard to pull off in a sawmill like New York, which strips apart its sports icons from the outside in, questioning first the performance, then the commitment, and then the character, almost reveling as it spits out the bones.

WSJ: Jason Gay: The Lesson of Mariano Rivera