jeff-macgregor - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights

Something Terrible Is About To HappenThere, in the upper-left-hand corner of the screen. Behind the goal and a step to the left. The videotape is probably a copy of a copy of a copy, as grainy as a Navajo sand painting. A hockey game. The camera pans too fast, too slow, chasing knots of players back and forth across the ice. Medium wid...

Death Of A RacehorseHere's W.C. Heinz's celebrated 1949 column, "Death of a Racehorse." ...

I Always Feel Like (Somebody's Watching Me)Jeff MacGregor's latest at ESPN:...

Why'd It Have To Be Snakes?

Gordon Wright, another lover of classic sports writing, suggested this fun piece of work by Jeff MacGregor. From Sports Illustrated back in 1998, dig "Snakes Alive!"...

Brownsville Bum

Here's W.C. Heinz's classic True magazine story on Bummy Davis (Jimmy Breslin called it the best magazine story ever written):...

Straight to the Hole (like my man Malik Sealy)

Love this short essay Jeff MacGregor wrote in 2011 about basketball at the West 4th Street courts in Greenwich Village:...

ESPN Writer Trumpets The Splendor Of Hockey Game He Left Early

Jeff MacGregor, a very fine columnist for ESPN and author of this classic piece of participatory journalism, has a meditation today on the particular joys of ice hockey, a game he grew up playing. MacGregor is an odd bird at ESPN. He never shouts, and he never trolls, and largely for those reasons i...

Can Quantum Physics Tell Us Whether Peyton Manning Is Washed Up Or Not?

ESPN's Jeff MacGregor has some thoughts today about the thorny Peyton Manning situation:...