Latest Articles:
Does tennis owe its players a living? — The Ringer
Outdoor Afro founder Rue Mapp: “The trees don’t know that you’re black” — ESPN’s The Undefeated
ESPN’s The Undefeated
Hanelle Culpepper, director of Star Trek: Picard, is the franchise’s first black female director
A profile of Colson Whitehead upon the publication of his latest novel, The Nickel Boys
Ish Monroe has found his perch in the heavily white world of bass fishing
Gary Faulkner Jr. is the only active black bowler to have won a major PBA title
NBA stars taste the wine business
Kai Lightner, 17, aims to be the best rock climber in the country
Katrina Adams, Tennis’s First African-American President, Seeks to Diversify the Sport
Fred Whitfield and the Black Cowboys of Rodeo
Harper’s
Unhackable: The quest for an email the government can’t read (cover story)
The Super Bowl! (of fishing): Searching for a hero at the Bassmaster Classic
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
California Sunday
Body Lab: Putting elite athletes under the microscope
Let’s Make Some Noise! A look at NFL stadium acoustics
Grantland
I Lost to Redfoo: A Tennis story
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
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
Deadspin
Chris Duhon vs. Rec Leaguer: An Indicted Art Dealer’s $50K bad beat
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
The Ringer
Fists Up: The Most Important Fight in the UFC is Happening Outside the Octagon
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 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
Selected Others
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)