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It's been a bittersweet week for surf literature.
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Dan Sheehan
| October 7, 2020
How a Poem Ends Up As a Basketball Epic
The Books That Helped Inua Ellams Write
The Half-God of Rainfall
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Inua Ellams
| September 30, 2020
Spending a Night Alone in Mount Everest's Death Zone
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Jennifer Hull
| September 16, 2020
Ross Gay: Have I Even Told You Yet About the Courts I’ve Loved?
On the Unlikely Tenderness and Care of a Good Pick-Up Basketball Game
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Ross Gay
| September 15, 2020
You're Paying for Sports Stadiums You Don't Even Go To
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Jessica Luther and Kavitha A. Davidson
| August 31, 2020
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Great Hype Men">Todd Snyder on Drew "Bundini" Brown, One of Boxing's
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Todd D. Snyder
| August 27, 2020
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Jonny Diamond
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Jonny Diamond
| July 10, 2020
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Elise Hooper
| July 8, 2020
Arrested For Wearing a Bathing Suit: Life as an Early Female Swimmer
Howard Means on Annette Kellerman
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Howard Means
| June 29, 2020
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for Runners
Read Along With Your New Pandemic Workout
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Emily Temple
| June 23, 2020
Reckoning with the Toll Gymnastics Takes on
Women's Lives
Hannah Orenstein on the Future of USA Gymnastics
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Hannah Orenstein
| June 22, 2020
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Ball Four
the Greatest Baseball Memoir Ever Written?
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| June 15, 2020
A Brief Feminist History of Bike-Riding
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Hannah Ross
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