It starts with something small, and you ignore it. I remember when Jrue and I first started dating, right after college, and one of the women on my club team made a passing comment about him. “Jrue is the whitest black guy I know.”
On learning to jog.
On Feb. 5, 2019, Maya Moore made an announcement on The Players' Tribune that would upend the WNBA: She would be sitting out the 2019 season to focus on "the people in my family, as well as on investing my time in some ministry dreams that have been stirring in my heart for many years." It was a stunning declaration. This was Maya Moore, in her prime.
Myth, storytelling, and lore in the most disappointing clubhouses of America’s pastime.
Leo Rodgers is the irrepressible gravel-racing hero we all need now.
The two poets correspond about basketball, life, and living.
More than 40 years ago, pioneering author Jim Fixx’s best-selling book brought jogging to the masses, espousing its physical and emotional benefits. Now, those themes resonate more than ever with a homebound society.
On the origins of Michael Jordan.
A Bad Boy coaches in the WNBA.
In American baseball, flipping your bat is frowned upon. In South Korea, it’s an art.
A letter from a cyclist who survived.
His savvy on a longboard earned him trophies. His burglary of the Natural History museum in New York earned him headlines. And his brutality on a Florida boat 50-odd years ago earned him a lifetime in prison. Now: What does penance get you?
Happy 59th! Or is it 58th? Cracking the mystery of Don Mattingly’s birthday.
A conversation with the former player, and new coach, about basketball, Beijing, and being understood.
After 20 years of long-distance competition, I ran my fastest. All it took was tech, training, and a new understanding of my life.
The story of one of the great final acts in sports history.
How Barcelona became the most successful—and most beloved—club in soccer.
The families Dodger Stadium removed.
How a group of 17 trans athletes came together last November to make history.
A letter from the coronavirus quarantine.
One cyclist rides west, another rides east. They meet on an empty stretch of road in a Kazakh desert.
Sex in the Olympic Village.
Why is the actor wrestling—and nearly dying in the ring—at the age of 48? For pride, acceptance, and to undo the mistakes of his past.
A season with the New England Patriots’ 37-year-old quarterback.
Stare at the game long enough and the distance between everything—players, league, game, court, self, other—begins to collapse. Everything becomes a metaphor for everything else, the league and your life each generating infinite layers of meaning for the other.
