June 09, 2014
Kem Nunn, Pat Grant and Tim Winton might not be publishing-household names, but their surfer-centric fiction is in season.
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Kem Nunn, Pat Grant and Tim Winton might not be publishing-household names, but their surfer-centric fiction is in season.
Read MoreRyan DeShon's professional wrestling career might not have reached the WWE, but as in all pro wrestling, it's the story that counts.
Read MoreAn impulsive New Year’s Eve resolution that ends with cascade of neon and vomit at the nation’s capital.
Read MoreEven if you have no idea which teams are playing in the Super Bowl this Sunday, you’ll still enjoy these 10 sports books.
Read MoreGet over the sight of people running around with brooms in between their legs, and you have a complex, mouthguard-required contact sport that is perfect for New York City.
Read MoreLord knows that every major sports league keeps its athletes on as tight a leash as possible, pushes them to be involved in charity and promotes the shit out of anything resembling an athlete's human interest story (Manti Teo, 'ello!). In the end, however, no matter how much we wish it were so, being great at a sport does not automatically make a pro athlete a great person, and the higher the pedestal we put those winning athletes on (Lance Armstrong, Oscar Pistorius), the harder they fall.
Read MoreThere was a lot of talk last week about a new, super-potent, drug-resistant form of bacteria that the CDC was warning hospitals about and generally sounds like a horrible nightmare. I took this news to heart, not just because I'm a hypochondriac, but because I refuse to use those antibacterial towelettes to wipe down the elliptical at the gym.
Read MoreA figure skater examines the ubiquity of sports terminology and wonders why boxing, the art of two people intentionally injuring each other, has such a constant presence in the common language.
Read MoreWhen Gabby Douglas won a gold medal in the women's gymnastics individual all-around, she became only the fourth American to do so in the history of the Olympics. That's not all: as one earnest broadcaster pointed out, she was also the first "African-American" to become president do it.
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