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The Fists That Shook the Sports World

Dave Zirin collaborated with John Carlos to tell the story Carlos never got to tell about what he intended, and accomplished, with a defiant fist he raised at the 1968 Olympics.

Sports

The Brilliance and Bombast of Howard Cosell

Mark Ribowsky, Cosell's biographer, misses the no-holds-barred, full-bore approach that made Cosell a star in a staid sports world.

Sports

Rage Against LeBron's Machine

Hot-blooded Cleveland native Scott Raab makes clear in his new book that he won't forgive nor forget how the former Cavaliers star left Ohio for sunny Miami.

Sports

When the Knicks Ruled the NBA

New York Times columnist Harvey Araton takes a gentler tack for his latest basketball book, revisiting the time when Walt, Clyde, and Bill were kings of the Garden.

Books

Big Daddy Novelist

Drew Magary moves from sports blogging to sci-fi.

Sports

Jock Mock

The Onion takes on the laughable excess of sports journalism and sports stars. Editor John Krewson says it's all for the beef-jerky ads.

Sports

A Bittersweet Walter Payton Biography

Author Jeff Pearlman set out to tell the true story of the Bear known as Sweetness. Some Chicago writers didn't want to hear it.

Books

A Word Freak Grows Up

Ten years after the release of his book chronicling the competitive Scrabble scene, Stefan Fatsis remains nuts for tiles, triple word scores, and bingos.

Sports

All the World's a Court

Author Marshall Jon Fisher started with an epic tennis match and expanded from there, encompassing homophobia, World War II, and the incomparable Bill Tilden.

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