April 2013
30 posts
“No one wants to live in fear. I’ve always been scared of saying the wrong...”
– NBA centre Jason Collins comes out in the pages of SI
“Soccer is almost entirely made up of little failures. Failure after failure. On...”
– George Bowering aboard the Round Bus, April 20, 2013
“Her original teeth, yellowed and worn down from a lifetime of grinding through...”
– Under Nine Seconds, fiction by Justin Kinnear
“My dad took me to a game in Baltimore on August 13, 1969. We sat behind home...”
– Joan Jett, “musician and rock star,” from Baseball in America, ca. 1991
“I have just seen a poem by David Brock that we are going to publish next week,...”
– Forbes, on the impending first anniversary of The Barnstormer
“There are many, regardless of race or generation, who believe that Robinson and...”
– Remembering the Story Before ‘42’ and Knowing the Real ‘42’ by J. Clinkscales at The Sportsfan Journal
“Before the driveway was a road, two tire ruts really, between two fields that...”
– The Long Seam, baseball fiction by Jeff Dupuis
It's a long season.: The Best Thing I've Read... →
Seeing a team through the highest highs and the lowest lows is absolutely worth talking about, and as many of us who have done that will know, it makes you fiercely loyal. But I don’t support the disdain for bandwagon jumpers a single bit, even the obnoxious ones who are crying apocalypse over the 2-4 homestand (though I will, obviously, try to reason through that). The expectations and hype for...
“Often we use phrases like “jock culture” or “bullying culture” as if culture is...”
– The Soul of Sports: Why Fox News & Former Players Defend Former Rutgers Coach Mike Rice
(via staceymayfowles)
“I no longer have an interest in defending my right to fandom, nor the notion of...”
– Stacey May Fowles, Initiations
March 2013
12 posts
“R.A. Dickey tells me that if he is perfectly honest, he prefers talking about...”
– The literary life of R.A. Dickey, by Stacey May Fowles (via National Post)
“As anyone who has read my columns or watched a game with me or been stuck with...”
– Mike Spry, What the Men Make Us Watch
“Brock Lesner was raised on a farm in North Dakota.
As a child, Lesner dodged a...”
– - “Brock Lesnar: Here Comes the Pain,” poetry by Greg Santos
“The modern isn’t now. And yet… Female athletes are the emblems of our modernity....”
– “Emblem” by Rebecca A Eckland
February 2013
4 posts
“I’m in need of escape. Not in any serious way; just a change of air, a quick...”
– Reviving Summer by Andrew Forbes (via staceymayfowles)
“Dickey’s a former English Literature major who uses words like “catharsis” and...”
– What R.A. Dickey Means by Stacey May Fowles
December 2012
2 posts
November 2012
5 posts
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