We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in sports writing.
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Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Sports, Story, Uncategorized
An Audience of Athletes: The Rise and Fall of Feminist Sports
Billie Jean King once tried to find a sustainable business model for feminist sports coverage. Then women’s fitness tried to revive the swimsuit model.
Posted inUncategorized
Final Girl, Terrible Place
I was expecting a handy theory. What I found was a way of seeing that would help me decode a script I’d been stuck in for much of my life.
Posted inCommentary, Current Events, Discussions, Podcasts
Open Secrets: Celebrity Sexuality and Athletic Abuse
Editors discuss the gender politics of music criticism, how young womxn drive conversations around cultural figures, institutionalized discrimination in sport, and more.
Posted inTop 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week we’re sharing stories from Stacy Perman, Azadeh Moaveni, Jake Kring-Schreifels, Kris Newby, and Nikita Arora.
Posted inStory
The 19th-Century Hipster Who Pioneered Modern Sportswriting
More than a century before GoPro, Thomas Stevens’ around-the-world bike ride vaulted first-person “sports porn” into the mainstream.
Posted inNonfiction
Best of 2023: All of Our Number Five Story Picks
Each story we chose as our number five piece of the week in 2023, all in one place.
Posted inFeature, Reading List
Location, Location, Location: Six Stories on Moving House
Jacqueline Alnes explores identity and privilege in these six stories about moving house.
Posted inEditor's Pick
“Who Can Explain the Athletic Heart?”
Michael MacCambridge—author of 1997’s The Franchise, a classic in media reporting—deep-dives what to make of Sports Illustrated following Meredith’s acquisition of Time Inc, and how (and even whether) the once-essential magazine can continue to survive in a continuously evolving media landscape
