• Sports

    Running

    What Running Has Taught Me About Writing (and Vice Versa)

    By Janice Obuchowski  December 8, 2022
    When I’m Not Writing

    “There’s No Story to Tell About Swimming.” Madeleine Watts on How to Quiet the Mind

    By Madeleine Watts  December 5, 2022
    Motherhood

    Mother or Weapon: Retired Cage Fighter Jenny Liou on Navigating the Body After Birth

    By Jenny Liou  December 5, 2022
    When I’m Not Writing

    Maryse Meijer on Training to Be a Bullfighter (Who Will Never Fight Bulls)

    By Maryse Meijer  November 28, 2022
    Swimming

    In Praise of the Glorious Deliverance of Swimming

    By Michael Parker  November 21, 2022
    Soccer

    How Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi Became Superstars On and Off the Field

    By Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg  November 11, 2022
    The Writing Life

    “Let That Dream Die.“ On Watching Tennis and (Actually) Becoming the Best Writer You Can Be

    By Veronica Roth  November 9, 2022
    When I’m Not Writing

    “I Fight to Learn What it Means to Feel Calm.” Laura van den Berg on Boxing, Vulnerability, and Process

    By Laura van den Berg  November 7, 2022
    Keen On

    Either/Or… Neither? Looking Beyond the False Binaries of the Catastrophist Present

    By Andrew Keen  October 28, 2022
    Keen On

    On Messi, Ronaldo, and the Radical Remaking of the World’s Game Over the Last 20 Years

    By Keen On  October 26, 2022
    The Literary Life

    David Maraniss on the Afterlife of Jim Thorpe

    By The Literary Life  October 21, 2022
    Keen On

    The End of the Beautiful Game? How the Analytics Revolution Is Changing Soccer

    By Keen On  October 18, 2022
    Running

    Why I Run: On Thoreau and the Pleasures of Not Quite Knowing Where You’re Going

    By Rachel Richardson  October 7, 2022
    Soccer

    On Falling in Love with Goalkeeping

    By Kelcey Ervick  October 4, 2022
    Cults

    Allure and Illusions: My Seven-Year-Old, Me, and the Cult of Gymnastics

    By Alison Wisdom  September 21, 2022
    Keen On

    Winning Fairly: Lessons About Successful Leadership From a Real-Life Ted Lasso

    By Keen On  September 21, 2022
    Fashion

    Hemlines and Court Lines: On the Evolution of Women’s Tennis Clothes

    By Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell  September 9, 2022
    Syllabi

    Back to School for Everyone: Sports and Contemporary Writing with Sam Lipsyte

    By Sam Lipsyte  September 6, 2022
    Football

    Players and Coaches Wanted: On the Beginnings of Toledo’s Pro Women’s Football Team

    By Stephen Guinan  September 1, 2022
    Football

    Big Business, Small Town Ideals: On Midwestern College Football

    By Ben Mathis-Lilley  August 31, 2022
    News and Culture

    Where Are the Larger-Than-Life Stories of Black Boxers in Fiction?

    By John Vercher  August 24, 2022
    Soccer

    Forbidden Love: On the Muslim Women Who Fought for Their Right to Play Futsal

    By Jamie Fahey  August 5, 2022
    Swimming

    In Praise of the Greatest Book About Swimming Ever Written

    By Daniel Shailer  July 11, 2022
    Baseball

    Ron Shelton on Making Bull Durham, Getting Threatened by Thomas Pynchon, and Why Baseball is the Most Literary Sport

    By Dwyer Murphy  July 7, 2022
    Underdogs

    From Ice Hockey Upsets to the Fastest Man Alive: The Best Books About Underdogs

    By Michael Loynd  June 23, 2022
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