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On the Ecstasy—and Agony—of Running an Ultramarathon in Your Seventies

On the Ecstasy—and Agony—of Running an Ultramarathon in Your Seventies

Bernd Heinrich Doesn’t Ever Want to Stop Running

By Bernd Heinrich | July 9, 2021

Sports Are Sad: On Winning and Losing (i.e. Living and Dying)

Sports Are Sad: On Winning and Losing (i.e. Living and Dying)

Emily Thomas Mani on Grief and Ephemerality

By Emily Thomas Mani | June 23, 2021

Personal Loss and Public Grief in the Aftermath of the Las Vegas Shooting

Personal Loss and Public Grief in the Aftermath of the Las Vegas Shooting

John Branch on the Way We Move On Even As We Mourn

By John Branch | June 16, 2021

What <em>The Endless Summer</em> Gets Right—and Wrong—About African Surf Culture

What The Endless Summer Gets Right—and Wrong—About African Surf Culture

Kunyalala Ndlovu Considers New Possibilities For Framing Global Surf Culture

By Kunyalala Ndlovu | June 15, 2021

On the Cheating Scandal That Nearly Ruined Baseball

On the Cheating Scandal That Nearly Ruined Baseball

Andy Martino Digs Into the Sign-Stealing Affair That Rocked America’s Pastime

By Andy Martino | June 10, 2021

How Has One Book That Barely Mentions Sports Reshaped the Game of Baseball?

How Has One Book That Barely Mentions Sports Reshaped the Game of Baseball?

Joe Lemire Guests on the Book Dreams Podcast

By Book Dreams | June 3, 2021

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Robert Macfarlane on Roger Deakin and the Origins of Wild Swimming

By Robert Macfarlane | May 26, 2021

“Why Are You Doing This?” On Mountaineering in the 21st Century

By Margret Grebowicz | May 13, 2021

How American Sports’ COVID Patient Zero Nearly Became a National Pariah

By Ben Golliver | May 10, 2021

For Too Long We Have Only Known Western Stories of the Himalayas

For Too Long We Have Only Known Western Stories of the Himalayas

Sophie Cousins on the Cruel Beauty of Mountaineering and
the Literature It Breeds

By Sophie Cousins | May 6, 2021

Seeking Stillness and Sunlight: On the Art of Fly-Fishing

Seeking Stillness and Sunlight: On the Art of Fly-Fishing

David Coggins Makes a Case for the Angler's Lifestyle

By David Coggins | May 5, 2021

The Responsibility of the Mountaineer in a Time of Climate Change

The Responsibility of the Mountaineer in a Time of Climate Change

Vanessa O’Brien in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | April 26, 2021

Searching for Answers to Everest’s Greatest Mystery Among the Artifacts of Its Early Climbers

Searching for Answers to Everest’s Greatest Mystery Among the Artifacts of Its Early Climbers

Mark Synnott on George Mallory, Sandy Irvine, and a Very Flimsy Rope

By Mark Synnott | April 16, 2021

Haruki Murakami on the Year Dave Hilton Debuted for the Yakult Swallows

Haruki Murakami on the Year Dave Hilton Debuted for the Yakult Swallows

“It felt as if the spring sunlight shone more intensely around him,
and him alone.”

By Haruki Murakami | April 5, 2021

How Jackie Robinson Paved the Way for the Undersung<br> Larry Doby

How Jackie Robinson Paved the Way for the Undersung
Larry Doby

Luke Epplin on the Impact of a Sports Pioneer and the
Black Players Who Followed

By Luke Epplin | April 1, 2021

Learning to Go With the Flow, in Rafting and in Writing

Learning to Go With the Flow, in Rafting and in Writing

Andrew J. Graff on the Hard Work of Staying Loose

By Andrew J. Graff | March 23, 2021

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