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To Steal A Mockingbird?
Ugliness in the literary world. This one involves Harper Lee. Mark Seal has the sordid details in a story for Vanity Fair:...
It's Something More
Chris Jones delivers a good one for ESPN the Magazine:...
The Fabulous Moolah
This is fun. Pat Jordan's 1974 SI piece on the Fabulous Moolah: "Lady with a Lock on Life":...
Opening Day At Fenway Park
Our man George Kimball on Opening Day at Fenway Park circa 1971:...
How Muhammad Ali Conquered Fear And Changed the World
More Ali. This one's from Mikal Gilmore, Men's Journal, 2011:...
The Last Swinger
Earlier this year, Tom Junod was kind enough to let me reprint his 1996 GQ Tony Curtis profile, "The Last Swinger" over on The Banter....
The Loser: The Most Honest Sports Story Ever Written
Originally published in the March 1964 issue of Esquire. Reprinted here with the author's permission....
The Good News Is There's Not A Birkenstock In Sight
Good piece by Robert Weintraub on Ultimate over at SB Nation Longform:...
Bringing It All Back Home
Grantland's Director's Cut series began with this gem from Tony Kornheiser: a 1980 Inside Sports cover story on Nolan Ryan:...
The End Of Lenny Bruce
Head on over to Bronx Banter and check out Dick Schaap's 1966 tribute to Lenny Bruce:...
Heartbreak On Wheels
Here's Ben Fong-Torres' 1975 Rolling Stone cover story on Linda Ronstadt:...
Marrying Television, Football Gained An Audience But Lost A Game
Dig Sherry Kafka's 1973 Texas Monthly article on Don Meredith: "Tuning In Dandy Don":...
LeeRoy, He Ain't Here No More
Pete Dexter's 1980 story on LeeRoy Yarbrough for Inside Sports has a chilling lede:...
Night-Shifting For The Hip Fleet
“Night-Shifting for the Hip Fleet,” by Mark Jacobson. From New York Magazine, 1975, this piece was the idea that spawned the TV show, Taxi:...
Pump, Pump, Pump, Pump It Up
Paul Solotaroff had a terrific piece on the original Gold’s Gym and the rise of bodybuilding in the February, 2012 issue of Men’s Journal:...
The Longest Day Of Sugar Ray: A Boxing Great Becomes A Sideshow Freak
Originally published by True magazine in 1964. Reprinted here with the author's permission....
Only The Ball Was Brown
From his website, here's David Kamp's 2006 GQ story on Early Lloyd:...
The American Male At Age Ten
From the most-talented Susan Orlean:...
The Happiest Hooligan Of Them All
Here's the original manuscript of W.C. Heinz's 1959 True magazine story on Pepper Martin: "The Happiest Hooligan Of Them All." ...
Brain Game
If you've never read "Game Brain," Jeanne Marie Laskas' 2009 GQ story, do yourself a favor. It's a good one:...