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Dan Rather Never Really Wanted This Job
Originally titled “Is Everything Okay?” this profile appeared in the April 1994 issue of GQ and is reprinted here with the author’s permission....
How A Small-Time Training Group And An Army Program Changed American Distance Running
Warmed up and stripped down, 15 blade-thin runners milled on the track, game-faced, gathering themselves. A few words between them, Swahili and English—“20 seconds ... 10 …”—and the amorphous group coalesced into a single-file line, shuffling. Scott Simmons had not finished saying, “Go!” when the fi...
The Lonesome Sporting Life
Originally published in the February 1981 issue of Inside Sports, this piece appears here with the author’s permission....
Four Days In The Squall Of A Superfight<em></em>
LAS VEGAS, Nev.—“Man, I’m usually in a suit, but it’s too fucking hot today,” a scalper told me a few hours before the big fight. It truly was too fucking hot. A police dog had to wear booties to protect his feet. This particular scalper was forced halfway inside, working the buffer area between the...
The Coen Brothers At Work
Originally titled “The Joel & Ethan Story,” this piece first appeared in the October 1989 issue of Premiere and appears here with the author’s permission....
The Fallout From Sportswriting's Filthiest Fuck-Up
The article hangs on a wall in my office. I am actually staring at it as I write this—it is taped, slightly crooked, to the white paint above my desk, positioned between a Chicago Blitz bumper sticker, a picture of my mother’s late Uncle John, and a photograph from the 1987 Mahopac High School fresh...
How SB Nation Profits Off An Army Of Exploited Workers
Depending on who’s defining it, to whom, and why, SB Nation is either a popular website best-known for puckish, irreverent coverage and such whimsical projects as Jon Bois’s 17776, or a sprawling network of “team” or “fan” websites, each tightly focused on a particular topic, like the New York Mets ...
Pete Dexter Finds A Safe Distance
This profile originally appeared in Philadelphia magazine, November 1991. It is reprinted here with the author’s permission. You can also read Jim Quinn’s 1979 profile of Pete Dexter here....
The Sad Failure Of Donald Trump's Desperate Attempt At A Baseball League<em></em>
Jeffrey Gildenhorn, a beloved D.C. restaurateur, recreational politician, and full-time man about town for several decades, died earlier this summer after choking on his meal at the Palm, a local power lunch institution. He’d lived a full enough life that none of his many obituaries mentioned his su...
When Pete Dexter Was An Artist On Deadline
This story originally appeared in Philadelphia Magazine (October, 1979). It is reprinted here with the author’s permission....
The Kid Who Didn't Die At Riverfront Stadium
On April 22, 1981, an Ohio teenager named Randy Kobman skipped school to go to Riverfront Stadium to see the Cincinnati Reds play the Atlanta Braves. In the bottom of the 8th inning, Reds slugger George Foster fouled a pitch from Gaylord Perry into the grandstands behind home plate. The ball caromed...
Gordie Howe Got Things Done
This feature originally appeared in Inside Sports and appears here with permission....
The Suffering And Corruption That Produced James Jordan's Killers
This story originally appeared in the March 1994 issue of GQ....
How Frank Rich Became The Butcher Of Broadway
This story original appeared in the June, 1990 issue of GQ and appears here with the author’s permission....
The Long Death Of A Failed Ballplayer
This story originally appeared in the August, 1980 issue of Inside Sports and appears here with permission. ...
The Ways Kermit Washington Was Made And Unmade
This piece originally appeared in the December 1981 issue of Inside Sports. It also appeared in The Breaks Of The Game, and it reprinted here with permission....
Earl Manigault Flew High And Fell Hard
This feature first appeared in Sport magazine and appears here with the author’s permission....
Carl Yastrzemski's Silent Summer
This piece was originally published in the October 30, 1978 of the New Times. It is reprinted here with the author’s permission....
Marvin Gaye's Abiding Unrest
This piece was first published in May 8, 1984 issue of the The Village Voice. It is also included in Shake It Up: Great American Writing on Rock and Pop from Elvis to Jay Z, edited by Jonathan Lethem and Kevin Dettmar....
Claressa Shields Is The Real Million Dollar Baby
From the new anthology, Bittersweet Science, edited by Carlo Rotella and Michael Ezra....