OK, “hate” is too strong a word. But I fundamentally do not get sports. Playing them, yes, fine. But knowing players’ names, arguing that this one guy is better than that other guy, keeping a little Excel sheet of strikes and yards and rebounds in my head? Baffling. But that doesn’t mean, as it turns […]
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Jesus Land
“They don’t know the first thing about us; they just hate us because we’re black.”
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A Family, a Fruit Stand, and Survival on $4.50 a Day
If it’s not for sale here, Nicaraguans say, then you can’t buy it anywhere.
Posted inFirst Chapters, Member Pick, Nonfiction, Story
Jesus Land
“They don’t know the first thing about us; they just hate us because we’re black.”
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A Miami Clinic Supplies Drugs to Sports’ Biggest Names
An investigation reveals that Major League Baseball stars including the Yankees’ Alex Rodriguez and the Giants’ Melky Cabrera allegedly received banned substances: “Open the neat spreadsheet and scroll past the listing of local developers, prominent attorneys, and personal trainers. You’ll find a lengthy list of nicknames: Mostro, Al Capone, El Cacique, Samurai, Yukon, Mohamad, Felix […]
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What Do You Think of Ted Williams Now?
A classic story of a Red Sox baseball legend, by Richard Ben Cramer, who died January 7: “It was forty-five years ago, when achievements with a bat first brought him to the nation’s notice, that Ted Williams began work on his defense. He wanted fame, and wanted it with a pure, hot eagerness that would […]
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What’s It Like To Sing The Anthem At A Baseball Game? The Story Of One Man’s Perilous Fight
A sportswriter tries his hand at singing the national anthem at a baseball game: “The anthem is designed to humble you. The anthem is designed to ruin your shit if you get too haughty, and that’s a good thing. In fact, it’s ready to challenge you from the very beginning: “O say can you see […]
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‘It Takes a Lot to Rattle Me’
The story of Olympian Hope Solo, the U.S. women’s soccer star whose childhood and difficult relationship with her father—who spent time in jail for kidnapping her and her brother—shaped who she would become: “Solo’s last childhood memory of her father is from the following year. One day he reappeared in Richland, begging to take Hope […]
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The Sound and the Fury
An oral history of the first all-sports talk station, WFAN, which included Don Imus, Mike Francesca, and Christopher “Mad Dog” Russo: “Jeff Smulyan (founder and CEO, Emmis Broadcasting): Imus was just getting out of rehab when we bought the station. His agent was a friend of mine; we laughed because we had a bad radio […]
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The Complete History of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
How two comic-book artists created the characters beloved by kids during the 1980s and ’90s. The original turtles weren’t so cuddly: “The original Mirage comic book really wasn’t made for youngsters. The Turtles diced up enemies while spouting the occasional curse word, and one of the Turtles’ allies was hockey mask-wearing vigilante Casey Jones, who […]
