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My Life In The Locker Room: A Female Sportswriter Remembers The Dicks Originally published June 4, 1992, in the Dallas Observer. Reprinted here with permission from the author, who has also provided an afterword about the response to her story....

Shadow Boxing: Lessons About Life, Death, And Writing, From <em>Rocky</em>Originally published in the Georgia Review and later anthologized in the Pushcart Prize XXXIII: Best of the Small Presses....

The Things He Found In People: Don Shula And The Secrets Of Talent Originally published in the September 1983 edition of Esquire. Reprinted here with the author's permission....

The Fight: Patterson Vs. Liston

Originally published in the February 1963 issue of Nugget, "The Fight: Patterson vs. Liston" also appears in At the Fights: American Writers on Boxing, edited by George Kimball and John Schulian and published in hardcover, paperback, and as an e-book by The Library of America. You can also find it...

Pain And Violence As A Way Of Life: Muhammad Ali-George Chuvalo II

Leonard Gardner is the author of one of the finest sports novels ever written, Fat City, a masterpiece of the terse style that is, in the words of Denis Johnson, “so precisely written and giving such value to its words that I felt I could almost read it with my fingers, like Braille.” Gardner also ...

What's The Matter With Jim Brown?

Originally published in the December 1986 edition of Sport magazine, as part of a special 40th anniversary issue devoted to "The 40 Who Changed Sports." This story is a good analytical companion to Pete Dexter's insane 1981 profile of Brown, reprinted here last week ....

How To Handle A Repo: Chapter 1 Of Elmore Leonard's <em>Unknown Man No. 89</em>

Elmore Leonard had been writing for 22 years when his agent, the legendary H.N. Swanson, told him to read George V. Higgins's seminal crime novel about the Boston underworld, The Friends of Eddie Coyle. This was in 1972; Leonard was 46. He'd worked in advertising and written westerns—stories and ...

Jim Brown Won't Let Just Anybody In

Originally published in the Sept. 30, 1981, edition of Inside Sports. Reprinted here with the author's permission. Photos by Barbra Walz....