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We have a winner: Sports gamblingWe don’t know the result of this year’s presidential election… yet. But it’s becoming increasingly clear that Americans are in favor of legalizing sports betting (and weed, but that’s for another time)....

You Can’t Bet On Rutgers To Win The National Title: The First Day Of Sports Gambling In New JerseyI almost didn’t get to place a bet that ended up winning me $100....

Richard Ben Cramer Takes On Ted WilliamsI wrote about Richard Ben Cramer's Esquire story on Ted Williams for the latest e-magazine from The Classical:...

Hoops Heaven

This here book is a must for basketball junkies. Snag it if you run across a copy in a used bookstore. ...

A Champ Looks At A Champ

From Leonard Gardner's 1971 New York Times review of the Jose Torres book, Sting Like a Bee: The Muhammad Ali Story:...

And Now We're Going To Return To The Classics

From my man Eric Nusbaum:...

90% Half Mental

There's a nice piece by Reeves Wiedeman over at Buzzfeed on Timothy Gallaway's 1972 book, The Inner Game of Tennis:...

The People's Cherce

A book you should have: Muhammad Ali: A Portrait in Words and Pictures. The words are by the late Wilfrid Sheed, the photographs by Neil Leifer. It's out-of-print but worth tracking down. ...