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August 2, 2010
Beth Raymer's Risky Business
Life on the edge led to a job in Las Vegas working for a professional sports gambler, and later a tell-all book about her shadowy career.
Books
August 2, 2010
Paul Solotaroff's Big Story
The writer couldn't write anymore until he told his own improbable story, about the transformation of a gawky teen into a muscleman in New York's wild '70s.
Full article » | by Max Lakin
Sports
August 2, 2010
A Baseball Phenom on the Boardwalk
Writer Joseph E. Wallace invents Diamond Ruby, a Stephen Strasburg-Jackie Mitchell hybrid who dominates 1920s batters in old New York.
Full article » | by Tom Flynn
Sports
June 29, 2010
The Summer of Leitch
Will Leitch, Deadspin founder and New York Magazine writer, has a new book and is newly married. He tells Gelf what he's learned from his father—and from Woody Allen
Full article » | by Tim Bella
Sports
June 28, 2010
Dangers of the 'Tiger Track'
Mark Hyman pushed his 13-year-old son too hard in baseball. Now he raises the alarm about the risks of youth sports that have gotten too big and intense.
Full article » | by Eric Yun
Sports
June 1, 2010
A Century of Harper's at the Ballgame
A new collection of essays from the venerable magazine gives sportswriting a good name.
Full article » | by Max Lakin
Sports
May 30, 2010
Geopolitics of the World Cup, or Why the US Doesn't Rule Soccer
On the eve of South Africa 2010, a father-and-son writing team parse the multivolume epic that is world soccer into a guide for uninitiated Americans.
Sports
May 30, 2010
Filipino Hoop Dreams
When he spent three years in the Philippines, writer Rafe Bartholomew found a basketball-mad nation in which the sport is deeply enmeshed in culture and politics.
Books
May 16, 2010
A Personal Journey Through Parasites
Parasitologist Eugene Kaplan tells Gelf about his life among the bugs and worms that inspired What's Eating You?
Books
May 11, 2010
Shit Justin Halpern Says
By mining his dad's cantankerous ramblings for Tweet-sized maxims, Halpern has become an internet celebrity, a published author, and the brains behind a new CBS pilot starring William Shatner. He tells Gelf how it all happened.
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