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On Oliver Sacks' Obsession With Weightlifting

On Oliver Sacks' Obsession With Weightlifting

What a Writer's Fitness Regime Can Tell Us About the Writing

By Ross Mcindoe | April 18, 2019

Tragedies of Ambition: On the Fine Art of American Sportswriting

Tragedies of Ambition: On the Fine Art of American Sportswriting

Wright Thompson Heads Home to See the Big Picture

By Wright Thompson | April 12, 2019

<em>Fiction/Non/Fiction</em>: <br>March Madness Edition

Fiction/Non/Fiction:
March Madness Edition

Marcus Burke and Shira Springer Join Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan

By Fiction Non Fiction | March 21, 2019

Why Are Writers Drawn to Boxing?

Why Are Writers Drawn to Boxing?

Albert Camus, Norman Mailer, and Me

By Josh Rosenblatt | March 14, 2019

On the Hidden History of Queer Women in Baseball

On the Hidden History of Queer Women in Baseball

Britni de la Cretaz on the Research Behind Breaking the Story

By Britni de la Cretaz | March 13, 2019

Why Does This Small Vermont Town Have So Many Olympians?

Why Does This Small Vermont Town Have So Many Olympians?

“I don’t know if it’s the well water or what.”

By Karen Crouse | January 22, 2019

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On the Intensity of Watching Basketball Alone in a Foreign Country

By Benjamin Markovits | December 6, 2018

Hell Week: On Inner City Football in the Wake of Ferguson

By Albert Samaha | September 17, 2018

Stepping Into the Boxing Ring as a Transgender Man

By Thomas Page McBee | August 14, 2018

He Was the Best We'd Ever Seen: On Baseball, Greatness, and Writing

He Was the Best We'd Ever Seen: On Baseball, Greatness, and Writing

Seth Sawyers Wonders Whatever Happened to the Phenom of Allegany County

By Seth Sawyers | July 17, 2018

Pin-Ups First, Athletes Second: Sexism in Surfing

Pin-Ups First, Athletes Second: Sexism in Surfing

How Australian Surf-Lit Excludes Women

By Holly Isemonger | June 25, 2018

How Do We Get the USA Back to the World Cup?

How Do We Get the USA Back to the World Cup?

Bruce Arena: Two Decades On and We're Fighting the Same Issues

By Bruce Arena | June 25, 2018

How Tango Rewired My Brain... and My Body

How Tango Rewired My Brain... and My Body

Meghan Flaherty on the Highs and Lows of Learning to Dance

By Meghan Flaherty | June 21, 2018

Why Soccer is the Most Universal Language on the Planet

Why Soccer is the Most Universal Language on the Planet

Every Game is Its Own Story: An Epic, A Tragedy, and A Comedy, All at Once

By Laurent Dubois | June 20, 2018

Colin Kaepernick: A True Dissident

Colin Kaepernick: A True Dissident

How He Exposed the Sports World’s Limited Scope, Curiosity, and Critical Thinking

By Howard Bryant | May 11, 2018

The Wild Nights of a Ballplayer in 1950s Manhattan

The Wild Nights of a Ballplayer in 1950s Manhattan

Just Another Night at Toots Shor's with Mickey Mantle and the Boys

By Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith | March 30, 2018

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