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Why I Run: On Thoreau and the Pleasures of Not Quite Knowing Where You’re Going
Rachel Richardson Doesn’t Need Your Directions
By
Rachel Richardson
| October 7, 2022
On Falling in Love with Goalkeeping
An Excerpt From Kelcey Ervick’s Graphic Memoir,
The Keeper
By
Kelcey Ervick
| October 4, 2022
Allure and Illusions: My Seven-Year-Old, Me, and the Cult of Gymnastics
Alison Wisdom Finds Similarities Between an Elite Sport and a Fundamentalist Church
By
Alison Wisdom
| September 21, 2022
Winning Fairly: Lessons About Successful Leadership From a Real-Life Ted Lasso
John U. Bacon in Conversation with Andrew Keen on
Keen On
By
Keen On
| September 21, 2022
Hemlines and Court Lines: On the Evolution of Women’s Tennis Clothes
Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell on Suzanne Lenglen—Tennis Pro and Fashion Icon
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Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell
| September 9, 2022
Back to School for Everyone: Sports and Contemporary Writing with Sam Lipsyte
The Thrill of Agony, the Victory of Defeat
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Sam Lipsyte
| September 6, 2022
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| September 1, 2022
Big Business, Small Town Ideals: On Midwestern College Football
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Ben Mathis-Lilley
| August 31, 2022
Where Are the Larger-Than-Life Stories of Black Boxers in Fiction?
By
John Vercher
| August 24, 2022
Forbidden Love: On the Muslim Women Who Fought for Their Right to Play Futsal
“Many of the women desperate to play had seen the game snatched away from them as children.”
By
Jamie Fahey
| August 5, 2022
In Praise of the Greatest Book About Swimming Ever Written
Daniel Shailer on Charles Sprawson’s
Haunts of the Black Masseur: The Swimmer as Hero
By
Daniel Shailer
| July 11, 2022
Ron Shelton on Making
Bull Durham
, Getting Threatened by Thomas Pynchon, and Why Baseball is the Most Literary Sport
Three Decades Later, the Writer and Director Looks Back at How It All Got Started
By
Dwyer Murphy
| July 7, 2022
From Ice Hockey Upsets to the Fastest Man Alive: The Best Books About Underdogs
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By
Michael Loynd
| June 23, 2022
Remembering the Potential and Compassion of a Friend Lost to Gun Violence
Will Jawando on the Life and Death of His Friend Kalfani
By
Will Jawando
| June 17, 2022
What Political Lessons Can We Learn From a Formerly Well-Run Football Club Like FC Barcelona?
Simon Kuper in Conversation with Andrew Keen
By
Keen On
| June 15, 2022
Singled Out
by Andrew Maraniss, Read by Kevin R. Free
On Baseball Player Glenn Burke
By
Behind the Mic
| May 31, 2022
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