01/05/2018
Category: The Sporting Life
On the wide world of sports.
10/12/2017
On The American Beat
Halberstam, a history
by Jonathan Clarke
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08/18/2015
Leaving the Mound
The legacy of Babe Ruth, pitcher
by Colin Fleming
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08/06/2014
Stolen Gold
At the 2000 Paralympic Games, the Spanish intellectually disabled basketball team won gold. There was one problem: 10 of the team’s 12 players had no disability.
by Matt Blitz
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06/19/2014
The Indomitable Lions
In 1990, in one of the World Cup's best underdog stories, Cameroon became the first African nation to advance to the quarterfinals. But their legacy, and history, is much more complicated than that.
by Matt Blitz
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05/12/2014
A Short Flight
The Seattle Pilots were short-lived, but their story is one of baseball's, and America's, westward expansion.
by Matt Blitz
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03/13/2014
Name that Team!
60 Eagles, 39 Bulldogs, and Kangaroos in Minnesota? March Madness and the insipidness of college basketball nicknames.
by D.B. Jones
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03/10/2014