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The Ways Kermit Washington Was Made And UnmadeThis piece originally appeared in the December 1981 issue of Inside Sports. It also appeared in The Breaks Of The Game, and it reprinted here with permission....

The End Of Pete Maravich, A Prisoner Of His Own SkillsThis article originally appeared in the premiere issue of Inside Sports (April, 1980) and appears here with permission from the author’s estate....

Playing For KeepsAh, yet another sure shot from our pals over at Longform. Dig this excerpt from David Halberstam's book about MJ, Playing For Keeps:...

Halberstam Takes Down Patrick Ewing

David Halberstam was not a sports writer but he wrote about sports often. He was rarely vicious which makes this Page 2 column on Patrick Ewing stand out:...

Throw It Down, Big Man

Check out Pat Jordan's 2001 New York Times profile of Bill Walton:...

Anatomy of a Champion

Check this out—David Halberstam's 1996 Vanity Fair story on two Olympic hopefuls: ...

Stories That Don't Suck: David Halberstam On Maurice Lucas And The Powers That Be Scared Shitless

Occasionally, we'll select stories — old and new, sports and otherwise, relevant and merely sublime — that we urge you to read for one reason or another. Today: the late Maurice Lucas, menacing the whistle right out of a ref's mouth....

David Halberstam, R.I.P.

We, like anyone who has even a passing interest in the world of journalism, deeply lamented the passing of David Halberstam, who was killed in a car crash yesterday in Menlo Park, Calif. He was 73 years old....