sports: a soap opera
by Alex Burns · updated 1d ago
sports: a soap opera
What’s Beef: The Past, Present, and Future of Joey Chestnut and Kobayashi
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Erin Matson has carved her place in women’s sports. Can field hockey capitalize?
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- The basic arc of Andy Roddick’s life goes something like this:
One day you’re a chirpy, hot-shot teenager with a thunderclap serve, who wears a baseball cap on a tennis court before that becomes a thing, and then one day you’re not good enough anymore, because inevitably nobody is. In between, you go to the top of a sport that doesn’t love chirpy te... See morefrom Andy Roddick, the U.S. Open’s last American male champion, sees himself a tennis schlub
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How tennis couples like ‘Tsitsidosa’ navigate what it’s like to date a tennis player
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The Haves and Have-Nots: How the Knicks’ Celebrity Row Works
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Before Brock Purdy was an NFL star, he ‘transcended’ Iowa State’s football program
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- Beauty is not the goal of competitive sports, but high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty. The relation is roughly that of courage to war.
from Roger Federer as Religious Experience by David Foster Wallace
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