The Best American Sports Writing 2014
eBook - ePub

The Best American Sports Writing 2014

  1. 422 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Best American Sports Writing 2014

About this book

"Excellent . . . A no-brainer pickup for the sports collection." —  Booklist

"An affirmation of the strong state of American sportswriting." —  Kirkus Reviews

From more than 350 national, regional, and specialty publications and, increasingly, the top sports blogs, Christopher McDougall, best-selling author of Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen, hand-selected the very best sports journalism of the past year.


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Information

Publisher
Mariner Books
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9780544147003
eBook ISBN
9780544301979
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Journalism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Copyright
  4. Foreword
  5. Introduction
  6. PAUL SOLOTAROFF WITH RON BORGES The Gangster in the Huddle
  7. DAVID MERRILL The One-Legged Wrestler Who Conquered His Sport, Then Left It Behind
  8. CHRIS JONES When 772 Pitches Isn’t Enough
  9. FLINDER BOYD 20 Minutes at Rucker Park
  10. AMANDA RIPLEY The Case Against High School Sports
  11. PATRICK HRUBY The Choice
  12. TIMOTHY BURKE AND JACK DICKEY Manti Te’o’s Dead Girlfriend, the Most Heartbreaking and Inspirational Story of the College Football Season, Is a Hoax
  13. DON VAN NATTA JR. The Match Maker
  14. MARY PILON Tomato Can Blues
  15. JAY CASPIAN KANG The End and Don King
  16. IAN FRAZIER The Last Days of Stealhead Joe
  17. JEREMY MARKOVICH Elegy of a Race Car Driver
  18. STEPHEN RODRICK Serena the Great
  19. BROOK LARMER Li Na, China’s Tennis Rebel
  20. AMANDA HESS You Can Only Hope to Contain Them
  21. ELI SASLOW “Anybody Who Thinks This Is Porn or Abuse Doesn’t Know My Family”
  22. JONATHAN MAHLER The Coach Who Exploded
  23. BEN McGRATH The Art of Speed
  24. NICK PAUMGARTEN The Manic Mountain
  25. BUCKY McMAHON Heart of Sharkness
  26. ALICE GREGORY Mavericks
  27. RAFFI KHATCHADOURIAN The Chaos of the Dice
  28. KATHY DOBIE Raider. QB Crusher. Murderer?
  29. CHRISTOPHER SOLOMON The Last Man Up
  30. CHARLES P. PIERCE The Marathon
  31. Contributors’ Notes
  32. Notable Sports Writing of 2013
  33. Read More from The Best American Series®
  34. About the Editors
  35. Footnotes

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