Covering Tennis Without A Net
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Late To Tennis Practice
Gerald Marzorati began playing in his 50s. He got a book deal out of it—and a pretty good one-handed backhand.
Politics
Are the Olympics Broken Beyond Repair?
Dave Zirin looks at the state of the Games, and it's not pretty.
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Covering Tennis Without A Net
Grantland Appreciation Night (Video)
Meeting Madden
Covering Tennis Without A Net
Score One For Sabermetrics!
LOVE That: The Sam Walker Story
Balling with the President
The Game Behind the Game
The Fists That Shook the Sports World
Confronting the Thugs
The TV-Recapper of the Mets Soap Opera
Mark Kram Jr. Honors His Father's Legacy Forwards and Backwards
Brazil Sells Its Soccer Soul
Zooming In: Olympics Day Fifteen
Zooming In: Olympics Day Fourteen
Breaking Good
Beyond Athleticism
NASA and the Case of the Slowing Satellite
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June 4: Varsity Letters at Pacific Standard with Grant Wahl
Varsity Letters is back at a new location, Pacific Standard in Brooklyn, for a pre-World Cup event on Monday, June 4. Sports Illustrated senior writer Grant Wahl will discuss his new book, Masters of Modern Soccer: How the World's Best Play the Twenty-First-Century Game, and answer all your burning World Cup questions.
05/23 | Read more »
March 13: Sebastian Abbot
Varsity Letters is back at The Gallery at Le Poisson Rouge on Tuesday March 13. Among the speakers will be author Sebastian Abbot, reading from and discussing his new book, The Away Game: The Epic Search for Soccer's Next Superstars.
03/07 | Read more »
Jan. 30: Olympics Night
Varsity Letters is back at The Gallery at Le Poisson Rouge on Tuesday, January 30, with a night of Olympic sports. Thomas H. Murray, president emeritus of the bioethics institute The Hastings Center, will discuss his new book, Good Sport: Why Our Games Matter -- and How Doping Undermines Them. He'll be joined by Carla Correa and Meghan Louttit, who covered the Larry Nassar trial for the New York Times.
01/26 | Read more »