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The Spirit of the Game
Joshua W. Jackson reviews David Wanczyk's "Beep: Inside the Unseen World of Baseball for the Blind."...
Sports
Bookish Basketball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s Latest
Seth Greenland reviews Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's new memoir, "Coach Wooden and Me."...
Football Nation: The NFL Brand in the Year of Kaepernick
On how the NFL achieved "corporate transcendence" and what the era of Kapernick means for it....
Everything But The Girl: “Pitch,” Nostalgia, and Baseball’s Way Forward
Emily Nemens on Fox's new series "Pitch" and Major League Baseball's latest attempt to stay relevant....
How to Write a Poem About Baseball
Julian Gewirtz interviews Jill Bialosky on baseball and poetry....
A Courageous Man: An Interview with John Carlos
David Davis interviews John Carlos, the 1968 Summer Olympics track athlete whose Black Power salute caused much political controversy....
Football’s Cancer
Exploitative Labor in America's Favorite Sport...
Night Cycle
The chaotic and uncontrollable parts of Los Angeles that make it such a challenging city during the day fade away as the city falls asleep....
The Hurt Business
Brin-Jonathan Butler talks about Mike Tyson, Hemingway, the hurt business, and Cuba's next revolution....
Dinamo Mesken: Turkish Football as a Political … Football
New from "Around the World"...
How to Grow Big, Beautiful Papayas: On the Baseball Film in Asia
James Millward on "Diamond in the Dunes" (2014), "Kano" (2014), and "Million Dollar Arm" (2014)....
Joining the Club: British Football’s Imaginary Global Community
David Goldblatt argues that as British football gains popularity around the world, its indigenous community and the game risk being compromised by investors and increased spectacle....
The Beautiful, Awful Game of Football
In Defense of Football...
Global Parties, Galactic Hangovers: Brazil’s Mega Event Dystopia
Whether it’s the World Cup or the Olympics, in London, Tokyo, or Rio de Janeiro, mega events are about real estate....
Driving Toward the Chinese Dream
Golf is prohibited in China, so the party leaders play under fake names and the 100 new golf courses a year are called eco/fitness centers....
The Blighted Beauty of America’s Sport
Where will America's sport be in 20 years? John Schulian maps the evolution of the sport and its reception, from it's halcyon days to now....
Football: The Lure of the Game
Violence and grace; freedom and exploitation; glory and ignominy: terrible beauty — football is America now....
Ghost Race
The midlife loser triumphs: Robert Andrew Powell runs his way into a new life....
Malamudville
Bernard Malamud's anomaly: 'The Natural'...
Whatta Mensch! A Review of Mendoza the Jew: Boxing, Manliness & Nationalism
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Soccer as Drama/Melodrama
“This simple articulation of the soccer fan’s crisis is about as deep into the existential mire as Papers in the Wind cares to delve.”...
Specimen Days: How Bosnia Qualified and I Survived
ON APRIL 6, 2013, the Portland Timbers hosted the Houston Dynamo in a Major League Soccer match at Portland’s Jeld-Wen Stadium. I was there — but I can’t tell you much about it. I’ve just discovered that Portland won ...
The Autocrat’s Guide To World Cup Qualification
nbsp; IT’S HARD to overstate the importance of football in the Arab world; it is undoubtedly the number one sport and matter of national pride. Arab leaders have historically taken a keen interest in the game — a keen interest, particularly, ...
More than a Sport: What the World Cup Means to Spain
What the World Cup means to Spain...
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