The Best American Sports Writing. 2019
Boston ; New York : Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019.
Format: Book
Description: xxviii, 317 pages ; 21 cm.
An anthology of top-selected sports writing from the past year is culled from hundreds of national, regional, and specialty publications as well as a variety of leading sports blogs.
Series: Best American series.
Other Authors:
Pierce, Charles P. (Charles Patrick), 1953- editor, writer of introduction.
Stout, Glenn, 1958- series editor.
Pierce, Charles P. (Charles Patrick), 1953- editor, writer of introduction.
Stout, Glenn, 1958- series editor.
Contents:
When winter never ends / Wright Thompson -- The aging curve / Sam Miller -- When making the NBA isn't a cure-all: mental health and black athletes / Jackie MacMullan -- A terror way beyond falling / Christopher Solomon -- Children of the cube / John Branch -- Holding her own / Bonnie D. Ford -- Game plan / Louisa Thomas -- Everyone believed Larry Nassar / Kerry Howley -- Winning at the cost of silence / Beth Davies-Stofka -- The inside story of a toxic culture at Maryland football / Heather Dinich, Adam Rittenberg, and Tom VaHaaren -- The lost cause / Virginia Ottley Craighill -- My magial quest to destroy Tom Brady and win a Philadelphia Eagles mini-fridge at Super Bowl LII / Caity Weaver -- Taming the lionfish / Jeff MacGregor -- Joel Embid is seven feet tall and rising / Clay Skipper -- A killing still unresolved / Nathan Fenno -- Gladiator: Aaron Hernandez and Football, Inc., part one: the secrets behind the smile / Bob Hohler and Patricia Wen -- Is Kilian Jornet for real? / Nick Heil -- Is this man a victim? / Kathryn Miles -- What the Arlee Warriors were playing for / Abe Streep -- Fists of fury / Tim Layden -- The redemption of Artis Monroe / Kim Cross -- Who's lookin' for a fight? / John M. Glionna -- Another voyage for madmen (and, this time, one woman) / Maggie Shipstead -- Paradox of paradise / Jeff Jackson.
Subjects:
Sports literature -- United States.
Sports -- United States.
Sports journalism -- United States.
Sports literature -- United States.
Sports -- United States.
Sports journalism -- United States.
ISBN:
9781328507853
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
LITERATURE Essays Bes 2019 | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |