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Table of Contents
1991: Pure heart / William Nack
Bo knows fiction / David Racine
The sports fan / Peter Richmond
Pride and poison / Linda Robertson
Let the games begin / Duane Noriyuki
The fight of his life / Gary Smith
Wild and crazy hombres / Franz Lidz
Ten days of torture in Junction / Kevin Sherrington
Thieves of time / Charles P. Pierce
Running the table / Frank Conroy
The comrades of summer / Glenn Nelson
The making of a goon / Johnette Howard
The right call / Jeff Coplon
A fling and a prayer / Paul Pekin
The unnatural / Peter O. Whitmer
Fly away home / Florence Shinkle
Tell me a story / Roger Angell
Going the distance / Neil Donnelly
Death of a cowboy / Peter Richmond
The hands and eye of Texas Billy Mays / Brian Woolley
On the bunny trail / Jack Smith
An american tragedy / Shelby Strother
Personal best / Richard Cohen
Head down / Stephen King.
1992: Shadow of a nation / Gary Smith
Muhammad Ali, the Mongoose, and me / George Plimpton
Rodeo / Thomas Mallon
They shoot heroes, don't they? / David Von Drehle
Center of gravity / Timothy Dwyer
A painter on a planet of blind people / Michael Disend
Stealth bomber / Joe Sexton
A winter grouse / Sydney Lea
For Ali, greatness takes another form / William Gildea
Glory denied / Bryan Woolley
The throes of tossing a baseball / Peter Gammons
O unlucky man / William Nack
Mountain spirits / James Kilgo
The power and the gory / Paul Solotaroff
Bird-to-bird combat / Karen Uhlenhuth
Indy visible / Mike Kupper
Donfire of the vanities / Mike Lupica
What made Bobby run? / Linda Robertson
The man in the mask / John Marchese
Citizen Ryan / Leigh Montville
A hero for the wired world / David Halberstam
The hustler / Donna St. George
Armed and considered dangerous / Jan Reid
Alone across the burn / Craig Medred
Why the NBA isn't as offensive as you think / Dave Barry.
1993: Tangled up in blue / P. Richmond
Blunder road / Roy Blount, Jr.
The year of living raucously / M. Bamberger
White men can't run / A. Burfoot
A simple game / B. Joravsky
Early innings / R. Angell
My life in the locker room / J. Briggs
Free fallin' / C. Johnson
Not your average ice queen / E.M. Swift
The amazing Madigan / R. Fimrite
The wit and wisdom of the White Rat / P. Jordan
The master grappler / D. Katz
The art of the sprint / H. Kohn
No pain, no game / M. Kram
The old ball game / D. Barry
The next superstar / C. Pierce
What is the Citadel? / R. Reilly
Playing back a bear attack / C. Medred
Basketball season / D. Tartt
A scream and a prayer / K. Moore
A mountain of trouble / D. Roberts
A tragedy too easy to ignore / M. Albom
True to his words / W. Nack
Asphalt junkie / S. Raab
A fan again, after all these years / M. Litt
1994: Lips gets smacked / Bruce Buschel
Concrete Charlie / John Schulian
Triumph on sacred ground / Leigh Montville
Cherry bombs / Leigh Montville
As time runs out / Gary Smith
Get a load of me! / John Ed Bradley
Boxing grieves loss of 5th Street Gym / Bud Collins
Weight bench warriors / S. L. Price
Walking away, while he still can / Ira Berkow
For Jenkins, another tragic twist in the road / Ira Berkow
The world is her cloister / Mark Kram, Jr.
Home for pheasants / John Hewitt
Fishing on the FDR / George Plimpton
Alaska : the land duke forgot / Dave Parmenter
Swingtime / Roger Angell
At the wide-open open / Martin Amis
Arthur Ashe remembered / John McPhee
The zen of Muhammad Ali / Davis Miller
Shoot the moon / Susan Orlean
The magic act / Charles P. Pierce
She's no jockette / Martha Weinman Lear
The rock / William Nack
The old man the the tee / Gary Cartwright
They might be giants / John Paul Newport
Running man / Frank Deford.
1995: Baseball's troubles could play out to be no routine comedy / Bob Verdi
A hitter first, a hitter always / Dave Kindred
1954-1994:How we got here / Steve Rushin
Sex, glitz, and greed:The seduction of O. J. Simpson / James Ellroy
The sorry state of tennis / Sally Jenkins
Game is too young to die / Jim Murray
National pastime, past my bedtime / Tony Kornheiser
Baseball strike:Who feels the most pain? / Blackie Sherrod
An exclusive club / Gary Smith
A furor follows in Deion's steps / J. A. Adande
Omaha Beach has a golf course now / Dave Anderson - - Montana fading out / Tom Junod
The second time around for Jennifer Capriati / Robin Finn
Whatever happened to Ronnie Littleton? / Skip Hollandsworth
How Swede it is! / Tom Callahan
Winning isn't color- coded / Michael Wilbon
Look out for the bull / Rick Reilly
No pain, no game / Peter Andrews
Vain glory / Gary Cartwright
Behind the icy glare / Pat Jordan
Bully ball / Mark Kram
Can golf survive John Daly? / Jerry Tarde
This ex-voter has had enough Heisman hype / Furman Bisher
Wampus cats & oyster toads / Robert F. Jones
Worth more dead than alive / Jay Searcy
The survivor won't let time slip by / George Vecsey - - The cold wars:inside the secret world of figure skating / Joan Ryan
This could be the start of a really big career / Ian Thomsen.
1996: The 13th round / David Davis
The savior / Tom Junod
Polite, feminine, can bench press Dennis Conner / Karen Karbo
The ultimate prize / Rick Reilly
The high price of hard living / Tom Verducci
An utter disaster / Michael Goodman
The end of the world / Kenny Moore
Down and out / Joel Reese
Hard-core hoops / Tom Farrey
Living with a lie / Michael Bamberger
Called strike / Roger Angell
The game's the thing / Roger Angell
Back in play / David Remnick
Jimmy Thompson's fallen house of cards / Mark Coomes and Pat Forde
Small colleges, big game / Larry Dorman. A 90's kind of rivalry / Peter De Jonce
A shot that resounds in Hoosier hearts / William Gildea
A team's true colors / David Aldridge
Belittled big men / Pat Jordan
Trouble on the court / Frank Deford
Big / Jan Reid
Man of the century / Bill Fields
What might have been / Greg Couch
Cal on the verge / Mat Edelson
A native son's thoughts / Richard Ben Cramer
He told it like it was, like only he could / Tony Kornheiser.
1997: Into thin air / Jon Krakauer --
Grappling with a giant / Padgett Powell --
Man and bull / Tony Hendra --
Hunting with my wife / Richard Ford --
Master strokes / Rick Reilly --
Conic projection / Roger Angell --
Controlling force / Tom Boswell --
Raging bull : Dennis Rodman and the sports confessional / David Remnick --
Anatomy of a champion / David Halberstam --
Platform Pitfalls / Linda Robertson --
Way Home / Thomas McGuane --
Heaven help Marge Schott / Rick Reilly --
Guts and glory / Ken Fuson --
Man who loves basketball too much : exquisite torment of Jerry West / Jeff Coplon --
Ali in heaven / Gay Talese --
Tiger king / Mark Kram --
Big fish, little fish / Ian Frazier --
Dog days / Steve Rushin --
String theory / David Foster Wallace --
Ace Venture / Jack McCallum --
Chosen one / Gary Smith.
1998: Blonde and sand / Tony Hendra
Asphalt legends / Rick Telander
Bird-watching as a blood sport / David James Duncan
Resurrecting the champ / J.R. Moehringer
On planet Venus / Linda Robertson
Cale registering on a hook / Robert Cole
Over the hill, my ass! / Rick Telander
My body, my weapon, my shame / Elwood Reid
"Uno
dos
tres
urrrrggghhh!" / Tad Friend
Golf's saving grace / David Finkel
The Man. Amen / Charles P. Pierce
The case against golf / Bruce McCall
A big game / Charles P. Pierce
The hustle / Tim Layden
Far beyond a mere marathon / David Ferrell
A delicate balance / Gary Smith
Goofy golf / Thomas Korosec
Tackling the competition / John Seabrook
Coming of age on the 50-yard line / Robert Andrew Powell
Fallen star "Goose" Ligon is looking for a miracle / Pat Forde
Late Boomer / Tom Boswell
The hit king / Scott Raab
Kid Dynamite blows up / David Remnick
Betrayal of trust / Johnette Howard ; Lester Munsion
A man's appreciation for women athletes / Steve Marantz
The soccer parents / Susan Sterling.
1999: The silent season of a hero / Gay Talese
The last American hero / Tom Wolfe
What do you think of Ted Williams now? / Richard Ben Cramer
The day Bobby blew it / Brad Darrach
Sport for art's sake / Heywood Broun
The Olympic army / Westbrook Pegler
Louis knocks out Schmeling / Bob Considine
Game called / Grandland Rice
All the way to the grave / Frank Graham
Next to godliness ; Miracle of Coogan's Bluff ; Jim and his baubles ; The Baby was always a boy
one of a kind ; And all Dizzy's yesterdays / Red Smith
One strike is out / Stanley Woodward
Sal Maglie
a gracious man / Murray Kempton
Obit on the Dodgers / Dick Young
If you're expecting one-liners / Jim Murray
Oh, no! Not another boring interview with Steve Carlton / Diane K. Shah
The LaMotta nuptials / Ira Berkow
"A very solid book" / Mike Royko
Eckie / Ring Lardner
Lethal lightning / Jimmy Cannon
Brownsville bum / W.C. Heinz
Mr. Rickey and the game / Gerald Holland
The rocky road of Pistol Pete ; The ghost of the gridiron / W.C. Heinz
Lone wolf of tennis / Dick Schaap
"The Haig": rowdy rebel of the fairways / John Lardner
Racing's angriest young man / Jimmy Breslin
Hub fans bid kid adieu / John Updike
The fight to live / Al Stump
A rough time on the road / Stan Fischler
The longest silence / Thomas McGuane
The Kentucky Derby is decadent and depraved / Hunter S. Thompson
Centre court / John McPhee
Butkus / Arthur Kretchmer
Gone for good / Roger Angell
There was only one Casey / Wells Twombley
Pain ; No mas / Tom Boswell
Medora goes to the game / George Plimpton
The rabbit hunter ; The boxer and the blonde / Frank Deford
The September song of Mr. October / David Remnick
A brother's keeper / Mike Lupica
Pure heart / William Nack
The making of a goon / Johnette Howard
The power and the glory / Paul Solotaroff
Tangled up in blue / Peter Richmond
The chosen one / Gary Smith
Into thin air / Jon Krakauer
Resurrecting the champ / J.R. Moehringer
The champ and the chump / Murray Kempton
Muhammad Ali then and now / Dick Schaap
Ego / Norman Mailer
Weird site for a fight / Jim Murray
"Lawdy, lawdy, he's great" / Mark Kram
My dinner with Ali / Davis Miller.
2000: Foreword / by Glenn Stout
Introduction / by Dick Schaap
Storm warning / Bryan Burrough from Vanity Fair
Enter the chicken / Burkhard Bilger from Harper's magazine
How I won the Minnesota statehouse, by Jimmy (Big Boy) Valente as told to Garrison Keillor / Garrison Keillor from the New York Times Magazine
Bottom of the ninth / Charles P. Pierce from Esquire
His love never dies / Rick Telander from the Chicago Sun-Times
He got a shot in the NBA
and it went in / David Halberstam from the Los Angeles Times
America is a bull / Jeanne Marie Laskas from Esquire
The birdman / Mark Levine from the New Yorker
Less than murder / Jeff MacGregor from Sports Illustrated
Touch of Knievel / Allison Glock from GQ
Joe DiMaggio would appreciate it very much if you'd leave him the hell alone / Robert Huber from Esquire
Up from the gutter / Steve Friedman from Esquire
Ay caramba! the fish drink tequila like goatsuckers! / Jonathan Miles from Sports Afield
Peerless / Daniel Coyle from Outside
Running like hell / Michael Finkel from Women's Sports and Fitness
Poker face / James Hibberd from the Phoenix New Times
Blown away / Stephen Roderick from GQ
Swimming with sharks / Charles Sprawson from the New Yorker
Terminal velocity / Craig Vetter from Outside
Clotheslined / Pat Toomay from SportsJones
The return of the white man / Matt Teague from Esquire
Soul survivor / David Wharton from the Los Angeles Times
Merv curls lead / Guy Lawson from Saturday Night.
2001: The marvel / Will Blythe
Shot through the heart / Doug Most
Everest at the bottom of the sea / Bucky McMahon
The blessed fisherman of Prosper, Texas / Charles P. Pierce
Can Riddick Bowe answer the bell? / Stephen Rodrick
For love of DiMaggio / Buzz Bissinger
Swing shift / Michael Leahy
The chosen one / David Owen
The natural / Tom Friend
Fortune's smile / James McManus
Bang for the Bucs / William Nack
Beach boy / Ian Whitcomb
A stud's life / Kevin Conley
The double life of Laura Shaw / Geoffrey Douglas
Gate crasher / Dave Kindred
Fear of falling / Greg Child
Deer Prudence / Michael Dileo
Kurt is my co-pilot / Toure
Pumping irony / Robert Draper
Tough guy / Pete Kotz
Toughest miler ever / Woody Woodburn
Olympics dream end in agony / Vahe Gregorian
Losing : an American tradition / Charles M. Young
The ex-sportswriter / Gene Collier
Starting over / Jim Harrison
Playing for keeps / Beth Kephart
The biggest play of his life / Rick Reilly.
2002: Her blue haven / Bill Plaschke
Almost a hero / Frank Deford
The Cuban Ali / Eugene Robinson
Backyard bloodbath / Bob Norman
"Please let me die" / Juliet Macur
A name on the wall / Willian Nack
Joe's gift / Mark Kram, Jr.
Blind to failure / Karl Taro Greenfeld
Transition game / Michael Leahy
Recalling her brother's bravest hour / Mike Lupica
Nightmare is real for mourners / Mike Bianchi
Last call / Gene Wojciechowski
Seeing the light / Adam Schefter
Making their points / Rick Telander
No angst in all-star Ichio / Art Thiel
Don't go all rashed about this / Scott Ostler
We all have some inner Daly, but most of us suppress it / Steve Hummer
Cold comfort / Steve Rushin
Big night in Bithlo / Dan Neil
Detour / Dan Le Batard
Flesh and blood / Peter Richmond
Higher education / Gary Smith
Near death in the afternoon / Elizabeth Gilbert
Blood sport / Tom Scocca
"It's gonna suck to be you" / Steve Friedman
The killing of Alydar / Skip Hollandsworth
Giants' 1951 comeback wasn't all it seemed / Joshua Harris Prager
The enlightened man / Jeanne Marie Laskas.
2003: Lucky Jim / Elizabeth Gilbert
Fowled away / Bill Plaschke
The ball / Gary Smith
Baseball without metaphor / David Grann
The Lone Wolf / S. L. Price
Bobby Fischer's pathetic endgame / Rene Chun
When the terror began / Alexander Wolff with Don Yaeger
Power pact / Juliet Macur
End of the run / Bill Donahue
Veteran finds greens peace / Bill Plaschke
Good Karma, bad golf / Josh Sens
Servant of the cause / Elizabeth Kaye
A man-child in lotusland / Rebecca Mead
Playing for Jud / James McKean
Race a memorable first for seventeenth man / Ron C. Judd
Appetite for destruction / Susy Buchanan
Life is a contact sport / Stephen J. Dubner
Rulon Gardner wants a third helping / Peter Richmond
Gambling man / Michael Leahy
"I want to kill him" / Mark Kram Jr.
Out of control / Bruce Feldman
My dad, the bookie / Michael Agovino
The birds at Oriole park / Ted Levin
His role on team is beyond words / Terry Pluto
Of sound and ice / Beth Kephart.
2004: Introduction by Richard Ben Cramer
Dusting off home / Joe Posnanski
Lifelike / Susan Orlean
The race of truth / Steve Friedman
Swimming to Antarctica / Lynne Cox
Beauty in the beast /Robert Draper
The secret life of Mia Hamm / Gary Smith
Growing up Mantle / Paul Solotaroff
Home and away / Peter Hessler
All the king's men: why the team that Jordan built fell to pieces / Michael Leahy
The leap of his life / Peter de Jonge
Making a play for players / Lisa Olson
Friday night lite / Carlton Stowers
Black Sunday / Charles P. Pierce
A runaway win Cubs fans won't appreciate / Greg Couch
Misery has more company / Bob Ryan
An unconventional tradition of success / Ira Berkow
Trying to find yourself in the toughest times / Mitch Albom
A long strange trip / Stephen Rodrick
Fishing the mainstream / Tommy Craggs
Getting slammed / Guy Martin
"No, not again!" / William Nack
Galarraga steals base, stops time / Joan Ryan
Playing against the clock / Rick Telander
The fright stuff / Any Meisler
Running for his life / Michael Hall
At ease, at last / Bill Plaschke
Biographical notes
Notable sports writing of 2003.
2005: Introduction / Mike Lupica
Running for their lives / Gary Smith
Phat chants / Bill Plaschke
Fatal errors / Mark Zeigler
Eli experiment / Michael Lewis
Dreams, steroids, death : a ballplayer's downfall / Mark Fainaru-Wada
How to catch fish in Vermont / Pam Belluck
Seeing snook / Thomas McGuane
Making contact / Ira Berkow
Memorial / Sean Flynn
Wound and the bow / David Shields
Five-second delay can't mute old voice / Richard Sandomir
Lion in late, late autumn / Pat Jordan
Biggest fish story ever told / David DiBenedetto
Field of broken dreams / Andrew Miller
Duel in the sun / John Brant
Lethal catch / Mark Kram
Great day for Arab Women / Linda Robertson
Barrage of bullets drowned out cries of comrades / Steve Coll
Outside looking in / L. Jon Wertheim
Man who made good / Wright Thompson
More than skin deep / Travis Haney
Duke of Dunbar / Michael Hall
Pride of Peabody / Michael Bamberger
Man in the ice / Chris Jones
Rayna's second season / Kevin Van Valkenburg
Alive and kicking / Katy Vine
Why we must listen / Michael Rosenberg
Sportsmen of the year / Tom Verducci
Spectacular, but sad / Bill Reynolds
Biographical notes
Notable sports writing of 2004.
2006: There is nothing special about Kyle Maynard (from Men's Journal) / Paul Solotaroff
Desire without end (from the New Orleans Times-Picayune) / Jeff Duncan
The girl (from The Los Angeles Times) / Kurt Streeter
Flipping out (from Texas Monthly) / Pamela Colloff
Dirty moves (from The Los Angeles Times Magazine) / James Brown
Driving lessons (from Travel and Leisure Golf) / Steve Friedman
Card stud (from The New York Times Magazine) / Pat Jordan
A tormented soul (from ESPN.com) / Greg Garber
Stealing time (from The New Yorker) / David Grann
Standing still (from Bicycling) / Dan Koeppel
Fallen angel (from Los Angeles) / Steve Oney
The sprinter (from Sports Illustrated) / S.L. Price
Saved by sports (from Sports Illustrated) / L. Jon Wertheim
The unnatural natural (from The Los Angeles Times Magazine) / J.R. Moehringer
The cult of the general manager (from Slate.com) / Neal Pollack
What goes ninety-five miles per hour for seventeen days straight through mud, sand, high-speed smashups, and marauding bandits (from Men's Journal) / Jonathan Miles
The shadow boxer (from Sports Illustrated) / Gary Smith
She's here she's queer she's fired (from Sports Illustrated) / Pamela Colloff
So you wanna be a cowboy (from The Pitch) / Ben Paynter
Mom's the word (from Newsday) / Jeff Pearlman
XXL (from The Miami Herald) / Linda Robertson
Clang (from The New York Times Magazine) / Michael Sokolove
Brooklyn Heights (from Texas Monthly) / Katy Vine
The magician (from The Atlantic Monthly) / Pat Jordan
Making the time count (from The Los Angeles Times) / Kurt Streeter
Raising the dead (from Outside) / Tim Zimmermann
A (fishing) hole in one (from The Los Angeles Times Magazine) / Charlie Schroeder.
2007: The white coon / Larry Brown
Bugs Bunny, greatest banned player ever / Derek Zumsteg
Ready for some fútbol? / Oscar Casares
The game of the year / Chris Ballard
Filling in the pieces of Jake Scott / Dave Hyde
Fading away / Wright Thompson
Deal of the century / John Klima
An unknown filly dies, and the crowd just shrugs / William C. Rhoden
Let us now raze famous men / Jeff MacGregor
Only medal for Bode is fool's gold / Sally Jenkins
That which does not kill me makes me stranger / Daniel Coyle
Polite when in neutral / Mimi Swartz
Snook / Ian Frazier
Blank Monday / William Finnegan
What keeps Bill Parcells awake at night / Michael Lewis
The madness of John Chaney / Robert Huber
The real deal in so many ways / Michael Wilbon
$neaker war / Bob Hohler
Baseball for life / Sara Corbett
A new game plan / Eli Saslow
The Saturday game / Eric Neel
Playing 4 keeps / Bryan Smith
The ultimate assist / L. Jon Wertheim
In Iraq, soccer field is no longer a refuge / Bruce Wallace
A moment of silence / Steve Friedman
Team Hoyt starts again / John Brant
The big show by little people / Paul Cullum
Talking turkey / Bill Buford.
2008: Introduction / William Nack
A death in the baseball family / S.L. Price
GLORY / Jeanne Marie Laskas
Forgive some sinner / Mark Kram, Jr.
Above and beyond / Tom Clynes
Dogged / Steve Friedman
Following Terry Fox / John Brant
The legend of Bo / Joe Posnanski
Bo knows best / Michael Weiner
Kick it up and it's a career killer / Michael Lewis
Causualties in the NFL / Paul Solotaroff
Atkins as study in pride and pain / Rick Telander
Hammering on Hank / Tommy Craggs
The rocket's descent / Thomas Boswell
Family carries on after tragic day at Rose Bowl / T.J. Simmers
Getting a second wind / Rick Reilly
Golf in Geezerdom / Dan Jenkins
Joining the club / Mark Lucius
The old ba' game / Eli Saslow
Behind the bamboo curtain / Wright Thompson
Murder by cricket / Patrick Rhuby
Go speed flier go / Tim Neville
No obstacles / Alec Wilkinson
Run like fire once more / Sam Shaw
Scito hoc super omnia / Mike Sager
No finish line / Alexander Wolff
No to get too mystical about it / Chip Brown
In the nick of time / Rick Bragg
Baseball after the boss / Franz Lidz
Twenty three reasons why a profile of Pete Carroll does not appear in this space / J.R. Moehringer.
2009: Introduction / Leigh Montville
Life and limb / Bruce Barcott
The things we forget / Chris Jones
Alive and kicking / Gary Smith
Inside the mind of a
genius? / Matthew Teague
Father Bear / Wright Thompson
The free agent adjusts his truss / Bryan Curtis
Running scared / Amby Burfoot
2 on 5 / Thomas Lake
The ball that just won't die / David Fleming
Commie ball / Michael Lewis
Breaking the bank / Jon Wertheim
Dropped / Alan Prendergast
Searching for answers to a painful question / Mike Wise
The source of all things / Tracy Ross
Quarterbacks built here / Paul Solotaroff
Spartan warriors in the YouTube age, or, The legend of legend, spider, and science / Stephen Rodrick
Men who love goons / Patrick Hruby
Royal flushed / Michael j. Mooney
Untitled Mike Flynt Project / John Spong
Russian revolution / Ian Thomsen
LeBron Jame's magnum-sized, ultrashiny, Nike-powered lawn mower to the next century / Lisa Taddeo
Where there's smoke / Mike Guy
Rough water / David McGlynn
Memories are forever / Todd Drew.
2010: The way it should be / Thomas Lake
Shadow boxing / Wright Thompson
Offensive play / Malcolm Gladwell
The impossible redemption of Jonathan Boyer / Steve Friedman
Whatever happened to Greg LeMond? / Mike Magnuson
Ripped. (Or Torn Up?) / Cynthia Gorney
The ghost course / David Owen
Flat / Jennifer Kahn
Close to home / John Brant
(Still) Life / Skip Hollandsworth
The NFL's Jackie Robinson / Alexander Wolff
NBA leads this race / Bob Ryan
Allonzo Trier is in the game / Michael Sokolove
Failing our athletes / Bob Hohler
The no-stats all-star / Michael Lewis
This is your brain on football / Jeanne Marie Laskas
This is Ted Johnson's brain / Robert Sanchez
Scout's honor / Bill Plaschke
Stay in the moment (with Doctor Baseball) / Karl Taro Greenfield
The death of a pitcher / Eric Nusbaum
Dream derailed / Mike Sielski
The revolutionary / Richard Hoffer
The ever elusive, always inscrutable, and still incomparable Bobby Orr / S.L. Price
Life throws Bernie Kosar for a loss / Dan Le Batard
The man who never was / Mike Sager
Chasing Jose / Pat Jordan.
2011: Risks, danger always in play / John Powers
Breathless / Chris Jones
The surfing savant / Paul Solotaroff
School of fight : learning to brawl with the hockey goons of tomorrow / Jake Bogoch
The franchise / Patrick Hruby
Eight seconds / Michael Farber
ABC news investigation : USA swimming coaches molested, secretly taped dozens of teen swimmers / Megan Churchmach and Avni Patel
Own goal / Wells tower
Culture of silence gives free rein to male athletes / Sally Jenkins
High school dissonance / Selena Roberts
Gentling Cheatgrass / Sterry Butcher
Pride of a nation / S.L. Price
The crash / Robert Sanchez
The patch / John McPhee
Fetch daddy a drink / P.J. O'Rourke
Trick plays / Yoni Brenner
The short history of an ear / Mark Pearson
If you think it, they will win / Bill Shaikin
The dirtiest player / Jason Fagone
Old college try / Tom Friend
Dusty Baker a symbol of perseverance / Howard Bryant
Icarus 2010 / Craig Vetter
Danny Way and the gift of fear / Bret Anthony Johnston
The tight collar / David Dobbs
Life goes on / Mark Kram Jr.
The courage of Jill Costello / Chris Ballard
Above and beyond / Wright Thompson
A gift that opens him up / Bill Plaschke
New Mike, old Christine / Nancy Hass.
2012: Foreword
Introduction
The phenomenal son / Dave Sheinin
Why you should care about cricket / Wright Thompson
Allen Iverson: fallen star / Robert Huber
Bad nights in the NFL / Thomas Lake
The ferocious life and tragic death of a Super Bowl star / Paul Solotaroff with Rick Telander
The People v. Football / Jeanne Marie Laskas
The heart of football beats in Aliquippa / S.L. Price
Frank's story / John Brant
Fixing Diane's brain / Bill Donahue
He do what he do / Michael Mooney
The forgotten hero / Tim Layden
The two-fisted, one-eyed misadventures of sportswriting's last badass / Alex Belth
Something went very wrong at Toomer's Corner / Tommy Tomlinson
The shame of college sports / Taylor Branch
Staring down history / S.L. Price
Boy genius / Jere Longman
Queen of the D-League / Ben McGrath
Welcome to the Far Eastern Conference / Wells Tower
The history (and mystery) of the high five / Jon Mooallem
Notable sports writing of 2011.
2013: Foreword / Glenn Stout
Introduction / J.R. Moehringer
The blind faith of the one-eyed matador / Karen Russell
The most amazing bowling story ever / Michael J. Mooney
The legacy of Wes Leonard / Thomas Lake
Mourning glory / Chris Ballard
The gym at Third and Ross / Bill Littlefield
Arrowhead anxiety / Kent Babb
End game / Jason Schwartz
It's not about the lab rats / Bill Gifford
Eddie is gone / Nicole Pasulka
The game of his life / Jonathan Segura
The making of "Homer at the bat", the episode that conquered prime time 20 years ago tonight / Erik Malinowski
At swim, two girls : a memoir / Bridget Quinn
At the corner of love and basketball / Allison Glock
Special team / Rick Reilly
The strongest man in the world / Burkhard Bilger
Caballo Blanco's last run / Barry Bearak
Marathon man / Mark Singer
Redemption of the running man / Dan Koeppel
Running / Cinthia Ritchie
Goal to go / Charles Siebert
Fear the bird / David Simon
Why don't more athletes take a stand? / Gary Smith
Did football kill Austin Tenum / Patrick Hruby
Urban Meyer will be home for dinner / Wright Thompson
The NFL's secret drug problem / Paul Solotaroff
Waiting for Goodell / Jeff MacGregor
Contributors' notes
Notable sports writing of 2012.
2014: The gangster in the huddle / Paul Solotaroff with Ron Borges
The one-legged wrestler who conquered his sport, then left it behind / David Merrill
When 772 pitches isn't enough / Chris Jones
20 minutes at Rucker Park / Flinder Boyd
The case against high school sports / Amanda Ripley
The choice / Patrick Hruby
Manti Te'o's dead girlfriend, the most heartbeaking and inspirational story of the college football season, is a hoax / Timothy Burke and Jack Dickey
The match maker / Don Van Natta, Jr.
Tomato can blues / Mary Pilon
The end and Don King / Jay Caspian Kang
The last days of Stealhead Joe / Ian Frazier
Elegy of a race car driver / Jeremy Markovich
Serena the Great / Stephen Rodrick
Li Na, China's tennis rebel / Brook Larmer
You can only hope to contain them / Amanda Hess
"Anybody who thinks this is porn or abuse doesn't know my family" / Eli Saslow
The coach who exploded / Jonathan Mahler
The art of speed / Ben McGrath
The Manic Mountain / Nick Paumgarten
Heart of sharkness / Bucky McMahon
Mavericks / Alice Gregory
The chaos of the dice / Raffi Khatchadourian
Raider. QB crusher. Murderer? / Kathy Dobie
The last man up / Christopher Solomon
The marathon / Charles P. Pierce.
2015: Foreword / by Glenn Stout
Introduction / by Wright Thompson
Awakening the giant / Seth Wickersham
One thousand two hundred and fifty-eight pounds of sons / Chris Jones
The two Michael Sams / Joel Anderson
Thirteen ways of looking at Greg Maddux / Jeremy Collins
Being Tommy Morrison's son / Elizabeth Merrill
Money in the bank / Dan O'Sullivan
The rage of the squat king / Rick Bass
Haverford hoops / Chris Ballard
Precious memories / Tommy Tomlinson
Jerry Football / Don Van Natta Jr.
Broke and broken / Tim Graham
Sins of the preacher / Greg Hanlon
Run and gun / Flinder Boyd
Those Kansas City blues: a family history / Katie Baker
The sea of crises / Brian Phillips
In deep / Burkhard Bilger
Who wants to shoot an elephant? / Wells Tower
Breaking the waves / Ariel Levy
The year of the pigskin / Christopher Beam
No one walks off the island / Scott Eden
Peyton Manning leaves crushing Super Bowl loss with reputation intact / Dan Wetzel.
2016: Foreword : Glenn Stout; Introduction : Rick Telander; It's only a few words, but it's motivation from Lynch; Matt Calkins: Follow the white ball / Sam Knight; Revenge of the Nerds: Chris Ballard; Spun: Steve Friedman; The king of tides: Kim Cross ; "Why him, why me?": Eli Saslow; Her decision, their life : Eric Moskowitz; Board in the Florida suburbs: Chris Wiewiora; Learn to dunk : Michael McKnight; Going home: Chris van Leuven; Zilong Wang and the cosmic tale of the white dragon horse and the karmic moonbeams of destiny that restored all faith in humanity: John Brant; A long walk's end : William Browning; The high life and fast times of Jim Dent: Michael J. Mooney; Smack epidemic : L. Jon Wertheim and Ken Rodriguez; The most dangerous man in football :Steve Fainaru and Mark Fainaru-Wada; Meet Mago, former heavyweight : Dan Berry; He's the last boxer to beat Floyd Mayweather Jr., and he so regrets it : Sam Borden; Stopping the fight : Brett Popplewell; A woman fell from a stadium : Michael Rosenberg; Hold on, boys: John Branch; American hustle: Alexandra Starr; Ruck and roll : Steve Rushin; There's somebody ruthless on the way: Chris Jones; The greatest hitter who ever lived on: Wright Thompson; The Patriot way : Don van Natta Jr. and Seth Wickersham; Rotten ice: Gretel Ehrlich; About winning: Henley O'Brien.
2017: William Perry / Rick Telander
Barry Switzer laughs last / Pat Jordan
A wonderful life / Dave Sheinin
The outsized life of Muhammad Ali / David Remnick
The spirit of a legend / Kurt Streeter
26.2 to life / Jesse Katz
Lost in America / Luke Cyphers and Teri Thompson
The away team / Alexis Okeowo
Too fast to be female / Ruth Padawer
The longest run / S. L. Price
Why Steve Kerr sees life beyond the court / John Branch
Four years student-athlete / Patrick Hruby
Kaepernick is asking for justice, not peace / Bomani Jones
Andrew Cuomo would have blacklisted Muhammad Ali / Dave Zirin
Some very dirty tricks / John Colapinto
Welcome to the big time / Don Van Natta Jr.
Hooked for life / George Dohrmann
The most successful female Everest climber of all time is a housekeeper in Hartford, Connecticut / Grayson Schaffer
(Long) gone girl / Jon Billman
The secret history of Tiger Woods / Wright Thompson
Today, her whole life is a free skate / Terrence McCoy
The shooter and the saint / Sean Flynn
Sucker punch / Tim Elfrink
Why one woman pretended to be a high-school cheerleader / Jeff Maysh
Hit man / Dan Barry
Serena Williams, Andy Murray and a political Wimbledon / Louisa Thomas
Almost there / Roger Angell.
2018. The greatest, at rest / Tom Junod --
Serena, Venus, and the Williams Movement / Howard Bryant --
The concussion diaries: one high school football player's secret struggle with CTE / Reid Forgrave --
"You can't give in": Monty Williams on life after tragedy / Chris Ballard --
Should stop. Must stop. Can't stop / Steve Friedman --
Still running / Jane Bernstein --
Cheers on a soccer field, far from Las Vegas / John Branch --
Pat Riley's final test / Wright Thompson --
Manning adds some meaning to a final game without much / Sally Jenkins --
The death of a teenage quarterback / Lars Anderson --
There's nowhere to run / Kent Babb --
Downward spiral / David Roth --
There is no escape from politics / Tyler Tynes --
Eternal champions / Sam Borden --
There are hundreds of baseball journeymen, but only one Cody Decker / Tim Brown --
The ballad of Ed "Bad Boy" Brown / Bryan Smith --
Don't try to change Jimmy Butler / Lee Jenkins --
Dante Pettis' reading list: defenses, and then the definitive works / Chantel Jennings --
Born to be a VandyBoy / Michael Lananna --
Cincinnati Bengals great Tim Krumrie's brain: a work in progress / Jim Owczarski --
Rebecca Lobo's incredible journey to basketball royalty / Steve Rushin --
Name of the father / Tim Struby --
Michael Brooks and the son who barely knew him / Mike Sielski --
Mikaela Shiffrin does not have time for a beer / Elizabeth Weil --
The case for Lefty Driesell / Dave Kindred.
2019. When winter never ends / Wright Thompson --
The aging curve / Sam Miller --
When making the NBA isn't a cure-all: mental health and black athletes / Jackie MacMullan --
A terror way beyond falling / Christopher Solomon --
Children of the cube / John Branch --
Holding her own / Bonnie D. Ford --
Game plan / Louisa Thomas --
Everyone believed Larry Nassar / Kerry Howley --
Winning at the cost of silence / Beth Davies-Stofka --
The inside story of a toxic culture at Maryland football / Heather Dinich, Adam Rittenberg, and Tom VaHaaren --
The lost cause / Virginia Ottley Craighill --
My magial quest to destroy Tom Brady and win a Philadelphia Eagles mini-fridge at Super Bowl LII / Caity Weaver --
Taming the lionfish / Jeff MacGregor --
Joel Embid is seven feet tall and rising / Clay Skipper --
A killing still unresolved / Nathan Fenno --
Gladiator: Aaron Hernandez and Football, Inc., part one: the secrets behind the smile / Bob Hohler and Patricia Wen --
Is Kilian Jornet for real? / Nick Heil --
Is this man a victim? / Kathryn Miles --
What the Arlee Warriors were playing for / Abe Streep --
Fists of fury / Tim Layden --
The redemption of Artis Monroe / Kim Cross --
Who's lookin' for a fight? / John M. Glionna --
Another voyage for madmen (and, this time, one woman) / Maggie Shipstead --
Paradox of paradise / Jeff Jackson.
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Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1991-.
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v. ; cm.
Language
English
ISSN
1056-8034
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Title of 1999 ed.: The best American sports writing of the Century.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Halberstam, D., & Stout, G. (1991). The Best American sports writing . Houghton Mifflin.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Halberstam, David and Glenn Stout. 1991. The Best American Sports Writing. Houghton Mifflin.
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MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Halberstam, David., and Glenn Stout. The Best American Sports Writing Houghton Mifflin, 1991.
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