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Running Man
Head on over to Runner's World and treat yourself to Steve Friedman's story: "Bret, Unbroken":...
Murder Was the Case
Mark Seal goes inside the Oscar Pistorius murder trial for Vanity Fair:...
Sure Shots
Pat Jordan has a good profile on women rifle shooters over at Roopstigo:...
Brother's Little Helper
Last November, Paul Solotaroff wrote a great piece on the NFL's secret drug problem for Men's Journal:...
Jacked
Here's Donald Katz's 1995 profile on the late Jack LaLanne for Outside magazine:...
Searching for Bobby Fischer
In the mid-1980s, Bill Nack went searching for the chess master and recluse Bobby Fischer. He wrote about his experience for Sports Illustrated:...
D'Fellas
Here's a winning story about Lawrence Taylor and his boys by one of our finest writers—John Ed Bradley. It originally appeared in Esquire back in 1985....
A One-Way Ticket to Palookaville
Back in 1998, Tom Scocca wrote a good one, "The Mayor of Palookaville," for the Boston Phoenix:...
Cuba Libre
Check out "Kids Not Poor in Spirit," a story about pickup baseball in Havana written by Bonnie DeSimone for the Chicago Tribune back in 1998:...
Trouble in Mind
Here's one fuh yah: "You Gore Girl!" Joe Miller's 2002 story for The Pitch on running with bulls in Spain: ...
Lost Soul on Ice
Here are three first-rate hockey stories by Guy Lawson:...
Thin Air: In The Mountains With Steve Carlton, Armed Conspiracist
Originally published as "Thin Mountain Air" in the April 1994 issue of Philadelphia Magazine. The story appears in The Best Sports Writing of Pat Jordan published by Persea books. A postscript with thoughts from both the author and editor follows....
F is for Fugazi
Dig this one: Nancy Jo Sales' 1998 profile of Vince McMahon for New York magazine....
I'm Tryin' to Get Money Like Felipe Lopez
So rapped the Beatnuts back in 1994. That's when Lopez was a big deal in New York. And that's around the time Susan Orlean wrote about Lopez for the New Yorker (actually, her profile appeared in the spring of '93):...
Dear Mr. President
In the latest issue of ESPN the magazine, J.R. Moehringer writes a letter to the President about Robert Griffin III:...
Demolition Derby
Head on over the SB Nation's Longform page and check out this profile on Gary Stevens by Joe DePaolo:...
Blind Faith
Dig this, from Time magazine, June, 2011: "Blind to Failure" by Karl Taro Greenfeld:...
Black Magic
Here is Woody Allen's Sport magazine story about Earl "The Pearl" Monroe:...
Sympathy For the Devil
Here's a treat—Joe Flaherty's 1981 Inside Sports piece on Jake LaMotta:...