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Danny Hustle

For his portrait of the competitive-pool world, Jon Wertheim found a colorful subject in Danny Basavich, aka Kid Delicious.

Books

Football in the Time of Katrina

The chronicler of a New Orleans high-school champion tells Gelf how the John Curtis Patriots helped heal their fans, their families, and themselves.

Books

SI's Provence Bureau Chief

Sports Illustrated writer S.L. Price spent a year in France covering non-US sports for America's biggest sports magazine. He came out of it with an unexpected, unconventional memoir.

Books

Frank Deford's Fellow Traveler

The veteran Sports Illustrated writer tries his hand at baseball fiction.

Sports

God Doping

Divine Intervention is poised to become the next big sports scandal.

Sports

Lamenting SportsCenter's Baroque Period

The author of a 2000 paper praising the wit and wisdom of SportsCenter tells Gelf this decade hasn't been kind to the home of Chris Berman and Stuart Scott.

Reflections

Growing Up (and Old) With Parkour

What does it mean to take up a sport as it enters its adolescence?

Sports

Buck O'Neil's Baseball Journey

His biographer, who spent 16 months traveling with the distinguished former Negro League player, tells Gelf why there was no better ambassador for the national pastime.

Sports

Carlisle's Football Laboratory

Richard Henry Pratt's school was founded as a daring experiment. It eventually bred Native American pride and gridiron innovations he could never have foreseen.

Sports

A Year Inside the Green Monster

A year after their championship, the Red Sox opened their doors to journalist Seth Mnookin and shared their secrets. No one in the organization was fully pleased with his resulting book.

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