The Best American Sports Writing. 2016
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.
Format: Book
Description: xxvi, 380 pages ; 21 cm.
For more than twenty-five years, The Best American Sports Writing has curated the year's finest sports journalism. Continuing the tradition in a long line of notable guest editors is Rick Telander, acclaimed journalist, author, and champion of the written word. His choices are defined by one shared thread: effort, on the part of athletes and writers alike. The physical strength it takes to play professional hockey and football, or for a forty-two-year-old writer to learn how to dunk in six months. The mental and emotional toughness needed to turn around a losing team, or to speak out about a coach. The careful striving to make everything seem effortless. This edition encompasses it all.
The Best American Sports Writing 2016 includes Don Van Natta Jr. and Seth Wickersham, L. Jon Wertheim and Ken Rodriguez, Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru, Brett Popplewell, Alexandra Starr, Wright Thompson and others
RICK TELANDER is a Chicago Sun-Times senior sports columnist and the Basketball Evangelist for Slam magazine. He has also written for Sports Illustrated and ESPN: The Magazine, and has been featured seven times in The Best American Sports Writing. He is the author of eight books, including Heaven Is a Playground and From Red Ink to Roses.
GLENN STOUT, series editor of The Best American Sports Writing since its inception, is the author of Young Woman and the Sea and Fenway 1912.
The Best American Sports Writing 2016 includes Don Van Natta Jr. and Seth Wickersham, L. Jon Wertheim and Ken Rodriguez, Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru, Brett Popplewell, Alexandra Starr, Wright Thompson and others
RICK TELANDER is a Chicago Sun-Times senior sports columnist and the Basketball Evangelist for Slam magazine. He has also written for Sports Illustrated and ESPN: The Magazine, and has been featured seven times in The Best American Sports Writing. He is the author of eight books, including Heaven Is a Playground and From Red Ink to Roses.
GLENN STOUT, series editor of The Best American Sports Writing since its inception, is the author of Young Woman and the Sea and Fenway 1912.
Series: Best American series.
Other Authors:
Telander, Rick, editor.
Calkins, Matt. It's only a few words, but it's motivation from Lynch.
Knight, Sam (Samuel). Follow the white ball.
Ballard, Chris. Revenge of the nerds.
Friedman, Steve, 1955- Spun.
Cross, Kim (Kimberly Hisako), 1976- King of tides.
Saslow, Eli. Why him, why me?
Moscowitz, Eric. Her decision, their life.
Wiewiora, Chris. Board in the Florida suburbs.
McKnight, Michael. Learn to dunk.
Van Leuven, Chris. Going home.
Telander, Rick, editor.
Calkins, Matt. It's only a few words, but it's motivation from Lynch.
Knight, Sam (Samuel). Follow the white ball.
Ballard, Chris. Revenge of the nerds.
Friedman, Steve, 1955- Spun.
Cross, Kim (Kimberly Hisako), 1976- King of tides.
Saslow, Eli. Why him, why me?
Moscowitz, Eric. Her decision, their life.
Wiewiora, Chris. Board in the Florida suburbs.
McKnight, Michael. Learn to dunk.
Van Leuven, Chris. Going home.
Contents:
Foreword / Glenn Stout -- Introduction / Rick Telander -- It's only a few words, but it's motivation from Lynch / Matt Calkins -- Follow the white ball / Sam Knight -- Revenge of the Nerds / Chris Ballard -- Spun / Steve Friedman -- The king of tides / Kim Cross -- "Why him, why me?" / Eli Saslow -- Her decision, their life / Eric Moskowitz -- Board in the Florida suburbs / Chris Wiewiora -- Learn to dunk / Michael McKnight -- Going home / Chris van Leuven -- Zilong Wang and the cosmic tale of the white dragon horse and the karmic moonbeams of destiny that restored all faith in humanity / John Brant -- A long walk's end / William Browning -- The high life and fast times of Jim Dent / Michael J. Mooney -- Smack epidemic / L. Jon Wertheim and Ken Rodriguez -- The most dangerous man in football / Steve Fainaru and Mark Fainaru-Wada -- Meet Mago, former heavyweight / Dan Berry -- He's the last boxer to beat Floyd Mayweather Jr., and he so regrets it / Sam Borden -- Stopping the fight / Brett Popplewell -- A woman fell from a stadium / Michael Rosenberg -- Hold on, boys / John Branch -- American hustle / Alexandra Starr -- Ruck and roll / Steve Rushin -- There's somebody ruthless on the way / Chris Jones -- The greatest hitter who ever lived on / Wright Thompson -- The Patriot way / Don van Natta Jr. and Seth Wickersham -- Rotten ice / Gretel Ehrlich -- About winning / Henley O'Brien.
Subjects:
Sports literature -- United States.
Sports -- United States.
Sports journalism -- United States.
Sports literature -- United States.
Sports -- United States.
Sports journalism -- United States.
ISBN:
9780544617315
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
LITERATURE Essays Bes 2016 | Northeast Indoors | Nonfiction | In |