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April 29, 2008
The Unwitting Father of Sports Blogging
Steve McKee talks to Gelf about his proto-blog and about his memoir of his father's death from heart disease.
Books
April 23, 2008
Do Travel Writers Cut Corners?
A recent tell-all from a former guidebook writer reveals a myriad of potentially dubious journalistic practices. Do travel writers really engage in these actions? If they do, can we blame them?
Sports
April 2, 2008
Baseball's Adolescence
Cait Murphy flashes back a century, to the crazy 1908 season, when a baseball executive suffered a mental breakdown, Merkle messed up, and the Cubs won it all.
Sports
April 2, 2008
Sixty Feet and Six Inches From Clemens
Baseball writer Jonathan Mayo tells Gelf about profiling Clemens through the men who have faced him, and why the Mitchell Report isn't mentioned in his book.
Sports
February 5, 2008
The Charles Van Doren of College Hoops
Mack Davis, the hero of a 1966 novel on the human price of college-sports scandal, attempts to build a new life after fame has cruelly departed. The author says the system remains broken four decades later.
Sports
February 5, 2008
'All You Have To Do Is Open a Vein'
Red Smith and his biographer, fellow sportswriter Ira Berkow, shared that unique mix of joy and dread when a deadline was approaching.
Sports
February 5, 2008
After Althea and Ashe
The tennis pioneers helped pave the way for the Williams sisters and James Blake. But elitism and racism persist in the sport.
Sports
January 2, 2008
The Fan's Savior Cometh
Will Leitch highlights the absurdities of sports and the men who cover them daily on Deadspin. In his new book, he offers a guide to what ails our games and how to fix them.
Sports
December 5, 2007
The Sports Speculator
Wonder how pro tennis players would do with a frying pan instead of a racquet? The irreverent Todd Gallagher has answers.
Sports
December 4, 2007
Enlightening Football's Dark Ages
Football Outsiders founder Aaron Schatz tries to make sense of the NFL's numbers, and its known unknowns.
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