On Crying for Sports Heroes
What’s the meaning of our grief for sports heroes — especially those, like Maradona, well known for their personal failings?...

On Crying for Sports Heroes
What’s the meaning of our grief for sports heroes — especially those, like Maradona, well known for their personal failings?...
The Other Mr. Met
Bob Blaisdell reviews a new biography of the late, great Tom Terrific....
Baseball Road Trip: An Interview with Brad Balukjian
Julia Scheeres talks to Brad Balukjian about his road trip to track down all the players in a 1986 package of Topps....
The Jordan Rules, Recycled
ESPN’s documentary “The Last Dance” is an “untold story” we’ve all heard a million times....
America’s Long Game: On Emily Nemens’s “The Cactus League”
Mike Broida gets sent to “The Cactus League,” the debut novel from Emily Nemens....
Democracy’s Concrete Court
The ritual of pickup basketball is a pocket of democracy as close as the local park....
Thirteen Ways of Looking at “High Flying Bird”
"High Flying Bird’s" Lukácsian dramatization of class struggle remains trapped, visually and narratively, in a neoliberal perceptual apparatus....
On Infinite Baseball: An Interview with Alva Noë
Kieran Setiya interviews philosopher Alva Noë about his book, Infinite Baseball: Notes from a Philosopher on the Ballpark....
The Improvisational Wonders of Jazz and Soccer
Michael Agovino explores the formal and stylistic echoes between soccer and jazz....
Give and Go: The Double Movement of Shut Up and Dribble
Samantha N. Sheppard thinks about the back and forth between social injustice, social progress, and the institutional power of the NBA in Showtime's Shut Up and Dribble....
The Modern American Dilemma: Seth Greenland’s “The Hazards of Good Fortune”
Taylor Larsen praises “The Hazards of Good Fortune,” a new novel by Seth Greenland....
Sneaker Money
Connor Goodwin on "University of Nike," Joshua Hunt's look at how companies like Nike control institutions of higher learning....