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Gretzky to Wittgenstein to Nabokov... He Scores!

Gretzky to Wittgenstein to Nabokov... He Scores!

Memorializing Greatness in Sport is as Complex as Imagining
One's Own Immortality

By Andrew Stark | August 29, 2016

Why Do I Still Care If the US Men's Basketball Team Wins Gold?

Why Do I Still Care If the US Men's Basketball Team Wins Gold?

Benjamin Markovits on Winning Streaks and the Rest of the World

By Benjamin Markovits | August 19, 2016

20 Writers From Around the World on the Olympics

20 Writers From Around the World on the Olympics

What to Look Forward to And Which Sports are Like Writing

By Literary Hub | August 5, 2016

A Neoliberal Trojan Horse: Dave Zirin on the Olympics

A Neoliberal Trojan Horse: Dave Zirin on the Olympics

Dwyer Murphy talks Rio with the The Nation's Sports Editor

By Dwyer Murphy | July 28, 2016

Bob Shacochis: How Surfing Lead Me to Writing

Bob Shacochis: How Surfing Lead Me to Writing

On a Pathological Love of the Hardest Sport in the World

By Bob Shacochis | July 8, 2016

Tennis: Good/Evil, Dread/Joy, All of Existence Within the Lines

Tennis: Good/Evil, Dread/Joy, All of Existence Within the Lines

The Literature of Tennis is the Literature of Life

By Matt Seidel | July 6, 2016

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We Are All Sisyphus: On Following Soccer, and Family Rivalries

By Lorraine Berry | July 6, 2016

The Homeric Epic of LeBron James

By David Giffels | June 24, 2016

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By Dwyer Murphy | June 17, 2016

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By Dwyer Murphy | June 14, 2016

When a Novelist Becomes an Ultramarathoner

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Ashley Ream on the Lessons of Endurance

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Ten Writers and The Sports They Should Write About

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Marlon James on Soccer, Jesmyn Ward on Football, Hanya Yanagihira on Hockey, and More...

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George Plimpton, the Original Master of None

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From the Ice Rink to the Boxing Ring to the Ballpark, a Writer Who Tried it All

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10 Contemporary Baseball Books for the New Season

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A Reading List for that Most Literary of Pastimes

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Love, Light, and Basketball on the Reservation

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Shann Ray on Growing Up with the Cheyenne

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When Andre Agassi Made Me a Woman (and a Writer)

When Andre Agassi Made Me a Woman (and a Writer)

Marie-Helene Bertino on the Literary Life Lessons of the Hardcourt

By Marie-Helene Bertino | October 29, 2015

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