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Nonfiction, Uncategorized

Remembering Nelson Mandela’s Contribution to Sports

by Matt Giles July 18, 2017October 19, 2022

Nelson Mandela long realized that sports was a great unifier.

Arts & Culture, Nonfiction, Story

When Black Male Singers Were Sex Symbols

by Ericka Blount Danois January 21, 2019October 19, 2022

Teddy Pendergrass was the R&B singer women wanted and who men wanted to be. And the one whose life-sized cardboard cutout stood in one family’s living room.

ESPN Has Seen the Future of TV and They’re Not Really Into It

by heymarkarms April 1, 2017October 19, 2022

No matter how innovative or cutting-edge ESPN makes itself, the cable money is just too lucrative, and the costs of licensing live sports are just too great, to finally cut the cord and offer itself as a standalone internet subscription service the way HBO did with HBO Now.

Reading List

Longreads Best of 2017: Sports Writing

by Longreads December 12, 2017October 19, 2022

We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year. Here is the best in sports writing.

Story

A Walk On The Wild Side: The Pete Ripmaster Journey

by Anna Katherine Clemmons March 20, 2019October 19, 2022

After discovering ultrarunning, a middle-aged father battling depression attempts his most daunting and dangerous race to date: 1,000 miles, solo, across Alaska in winter.

Nonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads September 15, 2017October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from Eli Hager, Bryan Curtis, Terry DeMio and Dan Horn, Alexander Nazaryan, and Ellie Shechet.

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Nonfiction, Story, Uncategorized

West Across the Sea

by Sam Riches October 19, 2018October 19, 2022

Tryggvi Hlinason is a sheep farmer at the center of a new generation of Icelandic basketball talent. He’s trying to do something that only one other Icelander has done before — play in the NBA.