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Still Diggin': 13 Memorable BASW StoriesAnd just cause, here's a baker's dozen of my favorite BASW stories over the years:...

My Dinner With AliAdapted from the original, which was published in 1989 in the Louisville Courier-Journal Magazine. Footnotes from the author (as told to Tommy Craggs) are included throughout the story, and a postscript from Glenn Stout, editor of Houghton Mifflin’s Best American Sports Writing series, follows. The ...

The "Best" American Sports Shouting 2012: An Anthology Of People Screaming Into Microphones On TV And RadioAs the guest editor of this year's edition of the Best American Sports Writing anthology, American sports television host Michael Wilbon, a former columnist, seized the opportunity to hold forth on the sorry state of the craft. Here he is, for instance, discussing the book in a November interview:...

The Best <i>Best American Sports Writing</i> Of The Decade

Before the regrettable bulk of sports writing became sportswriting and the Internet emerged as the medium to document the worst of it, one book, every year, nobly set out to chronicle sports writing's best....