Latest Writings
Kai Lightner, 17, aims to be the best rock climber in the country (ESPN’s The Undefeated)
Body Lab: Putting elite athletes under the microscope (California Sunday)
Fred Whitfield and the Black Cowboys of Rodeo (ESPN’s The Undefeated)
Let’s Make Some Noise! A look at NFL stadium acoustics (California Sunday)
Unhackable: The quest for an email the government can’t read (Harper’s cover story)
I Lost to Redfoo: A Tennis story. (ESPN Grantland)
How Pappy Van Winkle Became King of the Whiskeys (Grub Street/New York Magazine)
Are two hands better than one? The demise of the one-handed backhand (Sports on Earth)
One Kings Lane, the biggest (furniture) tag sale on Earth (New York Magazine)
Nephi Craig, farm to table food, and the movement to rediscover Native American cooking (Newsweek)
Harper’s
The Super Bowl! (of fishing): Searching for a hero at the Bassmaster Classic
Grantland
Ernests Goes to the Open: a profile of rising Latvian tennis star, Ernest Gulbis
The Once and Future Saint. A profile of an iconic Detroit basketball gym
The Futures is Bleak: Behind the scenes on the bottom rung of professional tennis
Deadspin
Chris Duhon vs. Rec Leaguer: An Indicted Art Dealer’s $50K bad beat
The New York Times Magazine
Skate along with the Gotham Girls, winners of the 2008 Roller Derby national championships
One restaurant’s no tipping policy and the curious history of tipping in America
Meet Shad Smith, the openly gay, ex-con professional mixed martial artist and underground fighter
A profile of Donald Young, the onetime Future of American Tennis
The New York Times
A few dollars to help a tennis prospect
Essay: A self-defeating adventure in self-rating (in tennis)
Trinity College’s men’s squash team’s historic winning streak comes to an end
Bloomberg Businessweek
As Linsanity Rages, so does Harvard hoops
Jeff Foster, the Buffett of basketball
Notre Dame, the fleecing Irish
Youth quarterback camps find a profitable seam
Behind the scenes of the NFL strike
The London hedge fund that’s betting on sports
Resmondo, the best corporate soft ball team in America
The Nation
Squash (the sport, that is) and the revolution in Egypt
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford’s wild ride
Bush’s Somalia strategy enables an African despot
The Atlantic
Ground war: Can Army finally beat Navy?
In Lebanon, a wine Renaissance
Why does milk go bad faster in New York City?
The Paris Review
About the mysterious appearance of Kanye West in Patrick French’s V.S. Naipaul biography
Salon.com
Hezbollah: Lebanon’s Paper Tiger
Saudi Arabia proposes a peace plan
Who killed Lebanese warlord Elie Hobeika?
New York Observer
Brad Pitt goes to climate class
The court’s a catwalk; these models can dunk!
Manhattan merlot mystery: Why is wine so pricey?
Legal Affairs
Bigger is better: How South Carolina finally got rid of its minibottles
Myrtle Beach’s separate and unequal biker rallies
The State newspaper (South Carolina)
Forest Lake Country Club: Columbia’s last whites-only country club PDF doc
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