The Best American Sports Writing
Index: 1991-2012
Guest Editors
David Halberstam 1991 RIP
Thomas McGuane 1992
Frank Deford 1993 RIP
Thomas Boswell 1994
Dan Jenkins 1995
John Feinstein 1996
George Plimpton 1997 RIP
Bill Littlefield 1998
Richard Ford 1999
Dick Schaap 2000 RIP
Bud Collins 2001
Rick Reilly 2002
Buzz Bissinger 2003
Richard Ben Cramer 2004 RIP
Mike Lupica 2005
Michael Lewis 2006
David Maraniss 2007
William Nack 2008 RIP
Leigh Montville 2009
Peter Gammons 2010
Jane Leavy 2011
Michael Wilbon 2012
JR Moehringer 2013
Christopher McDougall 2014
Wright Thompson 2015
Rick Telander 2016
Howard Bryant 2017
Series Editor
Glenn Stout 1991-present
Note: Date w/ story refers to BASW edition. All stories originally published the previous year
Alan Abel
When Hell Froze Over. Sports Illustrated – 1999
J.A. Adande
A Furor Follows Deion. The Washington Post – 1995
Michael Agovino
My Dad, the Bookie. GQ – 2003
Mitch Albom
A Tragedy Too Easy Too Ignore. The Detroit Free Press – 1993
Trying to Find Yourself in the Toughest Times. The Detroit Free Press – 2004
David Aldridge
A Team’s True Colors. The Washington Post – 1996
Martin Amis
At The Wide-Open Open. The New Yorker – 1994
Roger Angell
Called Strike. The New Yorker – 1996
Conic Projection. The New Yorker – 1997
Early Innings. The New Yorker – 1993
The Game’s the Thing. The New Yorker – 1996
Swingtime. The New Yorker – 1994
Tell Me A Story. The New Yorker – 1991
Dave Anderson
Omaha Beach has a Golf Course Now. The New York Times – 1995
Peter Andrews
No Pain, No Game. Golf Digest – 1995
Kent Babb
Arrowhead Anxiety. Kansas City Star – 2013
Chris Ballard
The Courage of Jill Costello. Sports Illustrated – 2011
The Game of the Year. Sports Illustrated – 2006
Mourning Glory. Sports Illustrated – 2013
Michael Bamberger
Living With A Lie. Sports Illustrated – 1996
Pride of Peabody. Sports Illustrated – 2005
The Year of Living Raucously. Golf Digest – 1993
Bruce Barcott
Life and Limb. Runner’s World – 2009
Dave Barry
The Old Ball Game. Tropic – 1993
Why the NBA Isn’t as Offensive as You Think. Tropic – 1992
Barry Bearak
Caballo Blanco’s Last Run. New York Times – 2013
Pam Belluck
How to Catch Fish in Vermont. The New York Times – 2005
Alex Belth
The Two-Fisted, One-Eyed Misadventures of Sportswriting’s Last Badass. Deadspin.com — 2012
Ira Berkow
For Jenkins, Another Tragic Twist in the Road. The New York Times – 1994
Making Contact. Chicago Magazine – 2005
An Unconventional Tradition of Success. The New York Times – 2004
Walking Away, While he Still Can. The New York Times – 1994
Mike Bianchi
Nightmare is Real for Mourners. The Orlando Sentinel – 2002
Burkhard Bilger
Enter the Chicken. Harper’s Magazine – 2000
The Strongest Man in the World. The New Yorker – 2013
Furman Bisher
This Ex-Voter Has Had Enough Heisman Hype. The Atlanta Journal Constitution – 1995
Buzz Bissinger
For Love of DiMaggio. Vanity Fair – 2001
Roy Blount Jr.
Blunder Road. Men’s Journal – 1993
Will Blythe
The Marvel. Men’s Journal – 2001
Jake Bogoch
School of Fight. Deadspin.com – 2011
Tom Boswell
Controlling Force. Playboy – 1997
For Timeless Player, It Was Time, The Washington Post – 1999
The Rocket’s Descent. The Washington Post – 2008
Late Boomer. The Washington Post Magazine – 1998
John Ed Bradley
Get a Load of Me! Sports Illustrated – 1994
Rick Bragg
In the Nick of Time. Sports Illustrated – 2008
John Branch
Punched Out. The New York Times–2012
John Brant
Close to Home. Runner’s World – 2010
Duel in the Sun. Runner’s World – 2005
Following Terry Fox. Runner’s World – 2008
Frank’s Story. Runner’s World – 2012
Team Hoyt Starts Again. Runner’s World – 2007
Yoni Brenner
Trick Plays. The New Yorker – 2011
Jennifer Briggs
My Life in the Locker Room. The Dallas Observer – 1993
Chip Brown
Not to Get Too Mystical About It. The New York Times Play Magazine -2008
James Brown
Dirty Moves. THe Los Angeles Times Magazine – 2006
Larry Brown
The White Coon. Field and Stream – 2007
Howard Bryant
Dusty Baker a Symbol of Perverance. ESPN.com – 2011
Susy Buchanan
Appetite for Destruction. Phoenix New Times – 2003
Bill Buford
Talking Turkey. The Nw Yorker -2007
Amby Burfoot
White Men Can’t Run. Runner’s World – 1993
Running Scared Runner’s World – 2009
Steery Butcher
Gentling Cheatgrass. Texas Monthly – 2011
Bryan Burrough
Storm Warning. Vanity Fair – 2000
Bruce Buschel
Lips Get Smacked. Philadelphia Magazine – 1994
Tom Callahan
How Swede It Is. Golf Digest – 1995
Gary Cartwright
The Old Man and the Tee. Texas Monthly – 1994
Vain Glory. Texas Monthly – 1995
Oscar Casares
Ready for Some Futbol? Texas Monthly -2007
Greg Child
Fear of Falling. Outside – 2001
Rene Chun
Bobby Fischer’s Pathetic Endgame. The Atlantic Monthly – 2003
Tom Clynes
Above and Beyond. Backpacker – 2008
Richard Cohen
Personal Best. The Washington Post Magazine – 1991
Robert Cole
Cale Registering On a Hook. The College of New Jersey Review – 1998
Steve Coll
Barrage of Bullets Drowns Out Cried of Comrades. The Washington Post – 2005
Pamela Colloff
Flipping Out. Texas Monthly -2006
She’s Here, She’s Queer, She’s Fired. Texas Monthly – 2006
Gene Collier
The Ex-Sportswriter. The Columbia Journalism Review – 2001
Bud Collins
Boxing Grieves Loss of 5th St. Gym. The Boston Globe – 1994
Kevin Conley
A Stud’s Life. The New Yorker -2001
Frank Conroy
Running the Table. GQ – 1991
Mark Coomes and Pat Forde
Jimmy Thompson’s House of Cards. The Louisville Courier-Journal – 1996
Jeff Coplon
The Right Call. The New Yorker – 1991
The Man Who Loves Basketball Too Much. Men’s Journal – 1997
Sara Corbett
Baseball for Life. The New York Times Play Magazine – 2007
Greg Couch
A Runaway Win Cubs Fans Won’t Appreciate. The Chicago Sun-Times – 2004
What Might Have Been. The Wichita Eagle – 1996
Lynne Cox
Swimming to Antarctica. The New Yorker – 2004
Daniel Coyle
Peerless. Outside -2000
That Which Does Not Kill Me Makes Me Stranger. New York Times Play Magazine – 2007
Tommy Craggs
Fishing the Mainstream. SF Weekly – 2004
Hammering on Hank. Slate.com – 2008
Richard Ben Cramer
A Native Son’s Thoughts. Sports Illustrated – 1996
Paulo Cullum
The Big Show by Little People. Los angeles Times Magazine – 2007
Bryan Curtis
A Free Agent Adjusts His Truss. Play Magazine – 2009
David Davis
The 13th Round. LA Weekly – 1996
Frank DeFord
Almost a Hero. Sports Illustrated – 2002
Running Man. Vanity Fair – 1994
Trouble on the Court. Vanity Fair – 1996
Peter DeJonge
The Leap of His Life. The New York Times Magazine – 2004
A ‘90’s Kind of Rivalry. The New York Times Magazine – 1996
David DiBenedetto
The Biggest Fish Story Ever Told. Men’s Journal -2005
Michael Dileo
Dear Prudence. Texas Monthly – 2001
Michael Disend
“A Painter on a Planet of Blind People” Sports Illustrated – 1992
David Dobbs
The Tight Collar. Wired – 2011
J. D. Dolan
Pool: A Love Story. Esquire – 1999
Bill Donahue
Fixing Diane’s Brain. Runner’s World — 2012
End of the Run. Outside – 2003
Neil Donnelly
Going the Distance. Buffalo Magazine – 1991
Larry Dorman
The Rivalry. The New York Times – 1996
Geoffrey Douglas
The Double Life of Laura Shaw. Yankee – 2001
Robert Draper
Beauty in the Beast. GQ – 2004
Pumping Irony. GQ – 2001
Todd Drew RIP 2010
Memories are Forever. Bronx Banter.com – 2009
Stephen J. Dubner
Life Is a Contact Sport. The New York Times Magazine – 2003
David James Duncan
Bird-Watching As A Blood Sport. Harpers – 1998
Jeff Duncan
Desire Without End. The NEw Orleans Times Picayune – 2006
Timothy Dwyer
Center of Gravity. The Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine – 1992
Mat Edelson
Cal on the Verge. Baltimore Magazine – 1996
James Ellroy
Sex, Glitz and Greed: The Seduction of O.J. Simpson. GQ – 1995
Jason Fagone
The Dirtiest Player. GQ – 2011
Mark Fainaru-Wada
Dreams, Steroids, Death. San Francisco Chronicle – 2005
Michael Farber
Eight Seconds. Sports Illustrated – 2011
Tom Farrey
Hard Core Hoops. Pacific – 1996
Bruce Feldman
Out of Control. ESPN: The Magazine – 2003
Dave Ferrell
Far Beyond A Mere Marathon. The Los Angeles Times – 1998
Bill Fields
Man of the Century. Golf World – 1996
Ron Fimrite
The Amazing Madigan. Sports Illustrated Classic – 1993
David Finkel
Golf’s Saving Grace. The Washington Post Magazine – 1998
Michael Finkel
Running Like Hell. Women’s Sports and Fitness – 2000
Robin Finn
Second Time Around for Jennifer Capriati. The New York Times – 1995
William Finnegan
Blank Monday. The New Yorker – 2007
David Fleming
The Ball that Just Won’t Die ESPN: The Magazine
Sean Flynn
The Memorial. Golf Magazine – 2005
Richard Ford
Hunting With My Wife. Sports Afield – 1997
Pat Forde
Fallen Star Goose Ligon Is Looking for a Miracle. The Louisville Courier Journal – 1998
Ian Frazier
Big Fish, Little Fish. Sports Afield – 1997
Snook. The New Yorker – 2007
Steve Friedman
Dogged. Runner’s World – 2008
Driving Lessons. Travel and Leisure Golf – 2006
The Impossible Redemption of Jonathan Boyer. Bicycling – 2010
“It’s Gonna Suck to Be You.” Outside – 2002
Kingpin. GQ – 1999
A Moment of Silence. Runner’s World – 2007
The Race of Truth. Bicycling – 2004
Up From the Gutter. Esquire – 2000
Tad Friend
Uno, Dos, Tres . . .Urrrrnghghgh! Outside – 1998
Tom Friend
The Natural. ESPN: The Magazine – 2001
The Old College Try. ESPN.com – 2011
Ken Fuson
Guts and Glory. Esquire – 1997
Peter Gammons
The Throes of Tossing a Baseball. The Boston Globe – 1992
Greg Garber
A Tormented Soul. ESPN.com – 2006
Elizabeth Gilbert
Lucky Jim. GQ – 2003
Near Death in the Afternoon. GQ – 2002
William Gildea
For Ali, Greatness Takes another Form. The Washington Post – 1992
A Shot That Resounds in Hoosier Hearts: In Milan, Legends Live On. The Washington Post – 1996
Bill Gifford
It’s Not About the Lab Rats. Outside – 2013
Malcolm Gladwell
Offensive Play. The New Yorker – 2010
Allison Glock
At the Corner of Love and Basketball. ESPN: The Magazine – 2013
Touch of Knieval. GQ -2000
Michael Goodman
An Utter Disaster. The Sporting News – 1996
Adam Gopnik
Endgame. The New Yorker – 1999
Cynthia Gorney
Ripped (Or Torn Up?) The New York Times Magazine – 2010
David Grann
Baseball Without Metaphor – 2003
Stealing Time. The New Yorker – 2006
Karl Taro Greenfeld
Blind to Failure. Time – 2002
Stay In the Moment. Men’s Journal – 2010
Vahe Gregorian
Olympics Dream Ends in Agony. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch – 2001
Mike Guy
Where There’s Smoke… Rolling Stone – 2009
David Halberstam RIP 2007
Anatomy of a Champion. Vanity Fair – 1997
He Got a Shot at the NBA – and It Went In. The New York Times – 2000
A Hero for the Wired World. Sports Illustrated – 1992
Jordan’s Moment. The New Yorker – 1999
Michael Hall
Duke of Dunbar. Texas Monthly -2005
Running for His Life. Texas Monthly – 2004
Travis Haney
More Than Skin Deep. Anderson Independent Mail – 2005
Jim Harrison
Starting Over. Men’s Journal – 2001
Nancy Hass
GQ. New Mike, Old Christine – 2011
Tony Hendra
Blonde and Sand. GQ – 1998
Man and Bull. Harper’s – 1997
Peter Hessler
Home and Away. The New Yorker – 2004
John Hewitt
On Books and Other Things. Gray’s Sporting Journal – 1994
James Hibberd
Poker Face. Philadelphia New Times – 2000
John Hildebrand
Coming Home. Harpers – 1999
Richard Hoffer
The Revolutionary. Sports Illustrated – 2010
Bob Hohler
Missed Opportunities. The Boston Globe – 2010
$neaker Wars. The Boston Globe – 2007
Skip Hollandsworth
The Killing of Alydar. Texas Monthly – 2002
(Still) Life. Texas Monthly – 2010
Whatever Happened to Ronnie Littleton? Texas Monthly – 1995
Johnette Howard and Lester Munson
Betrayal of Trust. WomenSport – 1998
Johnette Howard
The Making of a Goon. The National Sports Daily – 1991
Patrick Hruby
Did Football Kill Austin Trenum? Washingtonian – 2013
The Franchise. ESPN.com – 2011
Men Who Love Goons. ESPN.com – 2009
Murder by Cricket. ESPN.com – 2008
Robert Huber
Allen Iverson: Fallen Star. Philadelphia Magazine 2012
Joe DiMaggio Would Appreciate It Very Much… Esquire – 2000
The Madness of John Chaney. Philadelphia Magazine – 2007
Steve Hummer
We All Have Some Inner Daly, but Most of Us Suppress It. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution – 2002
Dave Hyde
Filling in the Pieces of Jake Scott. The South Florida Sun-Sentinel – 2006
Dan Jerkins
Golf in Geezerdom. Golf Digest – 2–8
Sally Jenkins
Cuturee of Silence. The Washington Post – 2011
Only Medal for Bode is Fool’s Gold. The Washington Post – 2007
The Sorry State of Tennis. Sports Illustrated – 1995
Cory Johnson
Free Fallin’. The Village Voice – 1993
Bret Anthony Johnston
Danny Way and the Gift of Fear. Men’s Journal – 2011
Chris Jones
Breathless. ESPN The Magazine – 2011
The Man in the Ice. Esquire – 2005
The Things We Forget. ESPN The Magazine – 2009
Robert F. Jones
Wampus Cats and Oyster Toads. Sports Afield – 1995
Ben Joravsky
A Simple Game. The Chicago Reader – 1993
Pat Jordan
Behind the Icy Glare. The Sporting News – 1995
Belittled Big Men. The New York Times Magazine – 1996
Card Stud. The New York Times Magazine – 2006
Chasing Jose. Deadspin.com – 2010
The Lion in Late, Late Autumn. The New York Times Magazine – 2005
The Magician. Atlantic Monthly -2006
The Wit and Wisdom of the White Rat. The Los Angeles Times Magazine – 1993
Ron C. Judd
Race a Memorable First for Seventeenth Man. The Seattle Times – 2003
Tom Junod
Montana Fading Out. GQ – 1995
The Savior. GQ – 1996
Jennifer Kahn Flat. Outside – 2010
Karen Karbo
Polite, Feminine, Can Bench Press Dennis Conner. Outside – 1996
Donald Katz
The Master Grappler. Outside – 1993
Elizabeth Kaye
Servant of the Cause. Los Angeles – 2003
Garrison Keillor
How I won the Minnesota Statehouse… The New York Times Magazine -2000
Beth Kephart
Of Sound and Ice. The Washington Post Book World – 2003
Playing for Keeps. Philadelphia Magazine – 2001
James Kilgo
Mountain Spirits. The Sewanee Review – 1992
Dave Kindred
Gate Crasher. Golf Digest – 2001
A Hitter First, A Hitter Always. The Sporting News – 1995
Melissa King
All in the Game. The Chicago Reader – 1999
Stephen King
Head Down. The New Yorker – 1991
John Klima
Deal of the Century. The Daily Breeze – 2006
Dan Koeppel
Redemption of the Running Man.Runner’s World – 2013
Standing Still. Bicycling – 2006
Howard Kohn
The Art of the Sprint. The Los Angeles Times Magazine – 1993
Tony Kornheiser
He Told It Like It Was, Like Only He Could. The Washington Post – 1996
National Pastime, Past My Bedtime. The Washington Post – 1995
Thomas Korosec
Goofy Golf. The Dallas Observer – 1998
Pete Kotz
Tough Guy. Cleveland Scene – 2001
Jon Krakauer
In Thin Air. Outside – 1997
Mark Kram
Bully Ball. Esquire – 1995
No Pain, No Game. Esquire – 1993
The Tiger King. Esquire – 1997
Mark Kram Jr.
“I Want to Kill Him.” The Philadelphia Daily News – 2003
Forgive Some Sinner. Thesmartset.com – 2008
Joe’s Gift. The Philadelphia Daily News – 2002
Lethal Catch. The Philadelphia Daily News -2005
Life Goes One. The Philadelphia Daily News – 2011
The World is Her Cloister. The Philadelphia Daily News – 1994
Mike Kupper
Indy Visible. The Los Angeles Times – 1992
Thomas Lake
2 on 5. Sports Illustrated – 2009
Bad Nights in the NFL– Sports Illustrated 2012
The Legacy of Wes Leonard. Sports Illustrated – 2013
The Way It Should Be. Sports Illustrated – 2010
Jeanne Marie Laskas
America Is A Bull. Esquire – 2000
The Enlightened Man. Esquire – 2002
G-L-O-R-Y. GQ – 2008
The People V Football. GQ–2012
This Is Your Brain on Football. GQ – 2010
Guy Lawson
Hockey Nights. Harpers – 1999
Merv Curls Lead. Saturday Night – 2000
Tim Layden
The Hustle. Sports Illustrated – 1998
The Forgotten Hero. Sports Illustrated — 2012
Sydney Lea
A Winter Grouse. The Virginia Quarterly Review – 1992
Michael Leahy
All the Kings’ Men: Why the Team That Jordan Built Fell to Pieces. The Washington Post Magazine – 2004
Gambling Man. The Washington Post – 2003
Swing Shift. The Washington Post Magazine – 2001
Transition Game. The Washington Post – 2002
Martha Weinman Lear
She’s No Jockette. The New York Times Magazine – 1994
Dan Le Batard
Detour. ESPN: The Magazine – 2002
As Bernie Kosar’s Life Around Him Crumbles, the Former QB’s Game Plan is Familiar: Emerge Unscathed. The Miami Herald – 2010
Mark Levine
The Birdman. The New Yorker – 2000
Michael Lewis
Commie Ball. Vanity Fair – 2009
The Eli Experiment. New York Times Magazine – 2005
The Kick Is Up and It’s … A Career Killer. NY Times Play – 2008
The No-Stats All-Star. The New York Times Magazine – 2010
What Keeps Bill Parcells Awake at Night. New York Times Play Magazine – 2007
Ted Levin
The Birds at Oriole Park. Washingtonian – 2003
Franz Lidz
Wild and Crazy Hombres. Sports Illustrated – 1991
Baseball After the Boss. Portfolio – 2008
Bill Littlefield
The Gym at 3rd and Ross. OnlyAGame.WBUR.org – 2013
Mike Littwin
A Fan Again, After All These Years. The Baltimore Sun – 1993
Jere Longman
Boy Genius. The New York Times — 2012
Mark Lucius
Joining the Club. The Great River Review – 2008
Mike Lupica
Donfire of the Vanities. Esquire – 1992
Recalling Brother’s Bravest Hour. The New York Daily News – 2002
Jeff MacGregor
Let Us Now Raze Famous Men. Sports Illustrated – 2007
Less Than Murder. Sports Illustrated – 2000
Waiting for Goodell. ESPN,com – 2013
Juliet Macur
“Please Let Me Die.” The Dallas Morning News – 2002
Power Pact. The Dallas Morning News – 2003
Mike Magnuson
Whatever Happened to Greg LeMond? Bicycling – 2010
Erik Malinowski
The Making of Homer at the Bat. Deadspin – 2013
Thomas Mallon
Rodeo. The Yale Review – 1992
David Mamet
The Deer Hunter. Sports Afield – 1999
Steve Marantz
A Man’s Appreciation for Women Athletes. The Sporting News – 1998
John Marchese
The Man in the Mask. GQ – 1992
Guy Martin
Getting Slammed. Field & Stream – 2004
Bruce McCall
The Case Against Golf. Esquire – 1998
Jack McCallum
Ace Venture. Sports Illustrated – 1997
David McGlynn
Rough Water. Meridian – 2009
Ben McGrath
Queen of the “D” League. The New Yorker–2012
Thomas McGuane
Seeing Snook. Sports Illustrated – 2005
The Way Home. Sports Afield – 1997
James McKean
Playing for Jud. Witness – 2003
Bucky McMahon
Everest at the Bottom of the Sea. Esquire – 2001
James McManus
Fortune’s Smile. Harper’s – 2001
John McPhee
Arthur Ashe Remembered. The New Yorker – 1994
Catch-and-Dissect. The New Yorker – 1999
The Patch. The New Yorker – 2011
Rebecca Mead
A Man-Child in Lotusland. The New Yorker – 2003
Craig Medred
Alone Across the Burn. We Alaskans – 1992
Playing Back a Bear Attack. We Alaskans – 1993
Andy Meisler
The Fright Stuff. The Los Angeles Times Magazine – 2004
Jonathan Miles
Ay Carumba! The Fish Drink Tequila Like Goatsuckers! Sports Afield – 2000
Big Ugly Green Fish. Sports Afield – 1999
What Goes Ninety-Five miles per hour for Sventeen Days Straight… Men’s Journal – 2006
Andrew Miller
Field of Broken Dreams. The Pitch – 2005
Davis Miller
The Zen of Muhammad Ali. Men’s Journal – 1994
J.R. Moehringer
23 Reasons Why A Profile of Pete Carroll Does Not Appear in this Space. Los Angeles – 2008
Resurrecting the Champ. Los Angeles Times Magazine – 1998
The Unnatural Natural. Los angeles Times magazine – 2006
Leigh Montville
Triumph on Sacred Ground. Sports Illustrated – 1994
Cherry Bombs. Sports Illustrated – 1994
Citizen Ryan. Sports Illustrated – 1992
Jon Mooallem
The History and the Mystery of the High Five. ESPN: The Magazine–2012
Michael J. Mooney
He Do What He Do. D. Magazine — 2012
The Most Amazing Bowling Story Ever. D Magazine – 2013
Royal Flushed. Miami New Times – 2009
Kenny Moore
The End of the World. Sports Illustrated – 1996
A Scream and a Prayer. Sports Illustrated – 1993
Doug Most
Shot Through the Heart. Sports Illustrated – 2001
Jim Murray
Game Too Young to Die. The Los Angeles Times – 1995
William Nack
Bang for the Bucks. Sports Illustrated – 2001
A Name on the Wall. Sports Illustrated – 2002
“No, Not Again!” ESPN.com – 2004
O Unlucky Man. Sports Illustrated – 1992
Pure Heart. Sports Illustrated – 1991
The Rock. Sports Illustrated – 1994
True to His Words. Sports Illustrated – 1993
Dan Neil
Big Night in Bithlo. Car and Driver – 2002
Eric Neel
The Saturday Game. ESPN.com – 2007
Glenn Nelson
The Comrades of Summer. The Seattle Times – 1991
Tim Neville
Go, Speed Flier, Go. Skiing – 2008
John Paul Newport
They Might Be Giants. Men’s Journal – 1994
Duane Noriyuki
Let the Games Begin. The Detroit Free Press Magazine – 1991
Bob Norman
Backyard Bloodbath. New Times Broward-Palm Beach – 2002
Eric Nusbaum
The Death of a Pitcher. Pitchersandpoets.com – 2010
Lisa Olson
Making a Play for Players. The New York Daily News – 2004
Steve Oney
Fallen Angel. Los Angeles – 2006
Susan Orlean
Lifelike. The New Yorker – 2004
Shoot the Moon. The New Yorker – 1994
P.J. O’Rourke
Fetch Daddy a Drink. Garden and Gun – 20112
Scott Ostler
Don’t Go All Rasheed About This. The San Francisco Chronicle – 2002
David Owen
The Chosen One. The New Yorker – 2001
The Ghost Course. The New Yorker – 2010
Nicole Pasulka
Eddie is Gone. The Believer -2013
Dave Parmenter
Alaska: The Land Duke Forgot. Surfer – 1994
Randall Patterson
The Trophy Son. Houston Press – 1999
Ben Paynter
So You Wanna Be a Cowboy? The Pitch -2006
Jeff Pearlman
Mom’s the Word. Newsday -2006
Mark Pearson
The Short History of an Ear. Sport Literate – 2011
Paul Pekin
A Fling and a Prayer. The Chicago Reader – 1991
Charles P. Pierce
A Big Game. GQ – 1998
Black Sunday. Sports Illustrated – 2004
The Blessed Fisherman of Prosper, Texas. Esquire – 2001
Bottom of the Ninth. Esquire -2000
The Magic Act. GQ – 1994
The Man, Amen. GQ – 1998
The Next Superstar. The New York Times Magazine – 1993
Thieves of Time. The National Sports Daily – 1991
Bill Plaschke
At Ease, at Last. The Los Angeles Times – 2004
A Gift That Opens Him Up. The Los Angeles Times – 2011
Fowled Away. The Los Angeles Times – 2003
Her Blue Haven. The Los Angeles Times – 2002
Phat Chance. The Los Angeles Times – 2005
Scout’s Honor: It’s Phil Pote. The Los Angeles Times – 2010
Veteran Finds Greens Peace. The Los Angeles Times – 2003
George Plimpton
Fishing on the FDR. Esquire – 1994
Muhammad Ali, the Mongoose and Me. Esquire – 1992
Terry Pluto
His Role on Team Is Beyond Words. The Akron Beacon Journal – 2003
Neal Pollack
The Cult of the General Manager. Slate.com – 2006
Joe Posnanski
Dusting Off Home. The Kansas City Star – 2004
The Legend of Bo. The Kansas City Star – 2008
Shirley Povich
Recent Baseball Feats Require Footnotes. The Washington Post – 1999
Padgett Powell
Grappling With A Giant. Harper’s – 1997
Robert Andrew Powell
Coming of Age on the 50-yard Line. Miami New Times – 1998
John Powers
Risks, Dangers Alway at Play. The Boston Glob – 2011
Joshua Harris Prager
1951 Comeback Wasn’t All it Seemed. The Wall Street Journal – 2002
Alan Prendergast
Dropped. Outside – 2009
S.L. Price
A Death in the Baseball Family Sports Illustrated 2008
The Ever Elusive, Always Inscrutable and Still Incomparable Bobby Orr. Sports Illustrated – 2010
The Heart of Football Beats in Aliquippa – Sports Illustrated — 2012
The Lone Wolf. Sports Illustrated – 2003
Pride of a Nation – Sports Illustrated – 2011
The Sprinter. Sports Illustrated – 2006
Staring Down History. Sports Illustrated — 2012
Weight Bench Warriors. Tropic – 1994
Bridget Quinn
At Swim, Two Girls. NarrativeMagazine.com – 2013
Scott Raab
Asphalt Junkie. GQ – 1993
The Hit King. GQ – 1998
David Racine
Bo Knows Fiction. The New Yorker – 1991
Joel Reese
Down and Out. Texas Monthly – 1996
Elwood Reid
My Body, My Weapon, My Shame. GQ – 1998
Jan Reid
Armed and Considered Dangerous. Texas Monthly – 1992
Big. Texas Monthly – 1996
Rick Reilly
The Biggest Play of His Life. Sports Illustrated – 2001
Chy Johnson and Her Boys. ESPN.com 2013
Getting a Second Wind. Sports Illustrated – 2008
Heaven Help Her. Sports Illustrated – 1997
Look Out for the Bull! Sports Illustrated – 1995
Master Strokes. Sports Ilustrated – 1997
The Ultimate Sacrifice. Sports Illustrated – 1996
What Is The Citadel? Sports Illustrated – 1993
David Remnick
American Hunger. The New Yorker – 1999
Back in Play. The New Yorker – 1996
Kid Dynamite Blows Up. The New Yorker – 1998
Raging Bull. The New Yorker – 1997
Bill Reynolds
Spectacular – But Sad. THe Providence Journal – 2005
William C. Rhoden
An Unknown Filly Dies, and the Crowd Just Shrugs. The New York Times – 2007
Peter Richmond
Death of a Cowboy. The National Sports Daily – 1991
Flesh and Blood. GQ – 2002
Rulon Gardner Wants a Third Helping. GQ – 2003
The Sports Fan. The National Sports Daily – 1991
Tangled Up in Blue. GQ – 1993
Cinthia Ritchie
Running. Sport Literate – 2013
David Roberts
A Mountian of Trouble. Men’s Journal – 1993
Linda Robertson
A Great Day for Arab Women. The Miami Herald – 2005
On Planet Venus. Tropic – 1998
Platform Pitfalls. The Miami Herald – 1997
Pride and Poison. The Miami Herald – 1991
What Made Bobby Run? Tropic – 1992
XXL. The Miami Herald -2006
Eugene Robinson
The Cuban Ali. The Washington Post Magazine – 2002
Stephen Rodrick
Blown Away. Esquire -2000
Can Riddick Bowe Answer the Bell? The New York Times Magazine – 2001
A Long Strange Trip. Runner’s World – 2004
Spartan Warriors in the YouTube Age. New York – 2009
Michael Rosenberg
Why We Must Listen. The Detroit Free Press – 2005
Tracy Ross
The Source of All Things. Backpacker – 2009
Karen Russell
The Blind Faith of the One-Eyed Matador. GQ – 2013
Steve Rushin
Cold Comfort. Sports Illustrated – 2002
Dog Days. Sports Illustrated – 1997
How We Got Here. Sports Illustrated – 1995
Bob Ryan
Misery Has More Company. The Boston Globe – 2004
NBA Leads This Race. The Boston Globe – 2010
Joan Ryan
The Cold Wars. The San Francisco Examiner Magazine – 1995
Galarraga Steals Base, Stops Time. The San Francisco Chronicle – 2004
Mike Sager
Scito Hoc Super Omnia. Esquire – 2008
Todd Marinovich: The Man Who Never Was. Esquire – 2010
Robert Sanchez
The Crash. 5280 – 2011
This Is Ted Johnson’s Brain. 5280 – 2010
Ri hard Sandomir
Five Second Delay Can’t Mute Old Voice. The New York Times -2005
Eli Saslow
A New Game Plan. The Washington Post Magazine – 2007
The Old Ba’ Game. The Washington Post – 2008
Adam Schefter
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