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The Four Most Inspiring Opening Paragraphs In Sportswriting, 2016
In a difficult year, sportswriting showed us truth and beauty. These 100 percent real paragraphs did it in ways we'll remember long after the calendar turns.
The Minutiae Man: Paul Lukas and the Uni-verse
"I didn't want it be a design column that happened to be about sports. I wanted it to be a sports column that happened to be about design. I wanted to create a new sports beat." With Uni Watch, that's exactly what Paul Lukas did.
The Five Most Inspiring Opening Paragraphs In Sportswriting, 2015
There was a lot of great sportswriting in 2015. Here are the five paragraphs (from totally imaginary feature articles about various athletes) that inspired us most.
Eduardo Galeano and the Art of the Elegant Fact
Eduardo Galeano wrote passionately, perceptively, and lucidly about a great many topics. But no one has ever written about soccer quite like he did.
The Death and Afterlife of Sports on Earth
The recently dismantled website has died, but its mission of putting out quality sportswriting lives on.
An Open Letter to a Young Sports Blogger Looking to Get Paid
A slightly older sports blogger shares his advice.
What Americans Can Learn From an Ex-Brazilian Soccer Player Turned Sportswriter
Americans are, for the most part, soccer neophytes who learn about the game from the English. Why don't they try and listen to the Brazilians for once?
The Least Important Important Thing
I would not and should not be writing about sports if I didn't think they were a way to better understand and enjoy a complicated moment-to-moment existence—not to mention a pretty righteous excuse to tell that existence to fuck off for a couple hours...