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Latest Articles:


  • Reese Brantmeier vs. the NCAA -- The Assembly
  • Buck Wild: Profile of professional bull rider Eli Vastbinder -- The Assembly
  • Potter Jim McDowell and the complicated history of face jugs -- ESPN's Andscape
  • Buried Treasure: The Truffle explosion in North Carolina -- The Assembly
  • Painter Beverly McIver's Art is not Safe -- ESPN's Andscape


ESPN's Andscape (previously The Undefeated)


  • A Q&A with new Duke Athletic Director Nina King
  • Director LeSean Thomas' animated journey from the South Bronx to South Korea
  • Outdoor Afro founder Rue Mapp: “The trees don’t know that you’re black”
  • 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


  • Does tennis owe its players a living?
  • 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)

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