Writing Worth Reading
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Writing Worth Reading
If we say this is the best piece we've read on football (soccer) in Canada, you'll ask how many we judged to be inferior. Well, OK, but we wouldn't recommend it unless we thought it was worth it. Allez les rouges!
In the 18th century, English aristocracy and working class were playing cricket together. Over the Channel, French peasants were burning their masters' chateaux. Not that class wasn't a big issue in cricket. Or gambling
If you're a Venezuelan in US major league baseball, you'd better be ready to buy some security at home. Family members get kidnapped for ransom. And so, now, might you. It happened to Wilson Ramos of the Washington Nationals
History lesson from a century ago, when two Ohio powers, Canton and Massillon, battled for supremacy of professional American football. "Back then the game was a cross between a three-ring circus and trench warfare"
Interesting analysis of three bold decisions by Robert Kraft that transformed the New England Patriots from league laughing-stock into the NFL's model franchise. This weekend they play in their fifth Super Bowl in 11 years
One year into the Great Depression it wasn't clear if the NFL was where America's best football was being played. Not with Notre Dame beating every other college team in sold-out stadiums. What if they were to take on the NY Giants?
Review of Australian Open, focusing on titanic struggle between Djokovic and Nadal. Men's final will go down as one of greatest tennis matches ever. And for endurance, athleticism and skill, there's little in all of sport to beat it
Basketball fan writes about the decline of the Boston Celtics and his father's health. Some might find meshing of the two in dubious taste, but it's well written and there's something curiously affecting about it
Omar Calhoun is the best 18-year-old male basketball player in New York. Sierra Calhoun is the best 15-year-old female basketball player in the city. Their parents weren’t bad either
On the making of a gymnast. By her first birthday, Jordyn Wieber already had noticeable muscles. On the changing table, she'd pull herself up to a standing position and balance on one leg like a flamingo. Now she's a world champion
"On December 10, 1810, in a muddy field around 25 miles from London, a fight took place that was so dramatic, controversial, and ferocious that it continues to haunt the imagination of boxing more than 200 years later"
Anyone with a passing interest in golf knows Hogan was one of the game's greats. But did you know that many of his major victories were achieved after a horrifying car crash that all but killed him? Truly a great sporting comeback
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"A tense and busy futility is the best Americans can do by way of down time. How else to explain golf?"
