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• Director LeSean Thomas' animated journey from the South Bronx to South Korea — ESPN's The Undefeated
• 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
• Black History Month profile of architect Phil Freelon, designer of the Smithsonian’s African American museum
• 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 

• The longest winning streak in college sports history belongs to Trinity College’s men’s squash team, which squashes the Ivies at their own game
• 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
• The Seventh Coming. A profile of a black high school basketball star at a South Carolina private school founded in defiance of integration
• 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
• A tale of two South Carolina museums: one honors a Confederate submarine; another explores the state’s shameful history of slavery

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

• Wall Street’s lacrosse mafia
• As Linsanity Rages, so does Harvard hoops
• SMU Football’s second coming
• 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?
• America’s underground chefs
• In Lebanon, a wine Renaissance
• Does culinary school matter?
• 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?
• Beirut, Lebanon after 9/11

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)