Sports Writing

America’s Saturday Church: On My Conference Can Beat Your Conference by Paul Finebaum

America’s Saturday Church: On My Conference Can Beat Your Conference by Paul Finebaum

My Conference Can Beat Your Conference: Why the SEC Still Rules College FootballPaul Finebaum with Gene WojciechowskiHarper Collins, 2014273 pages$19.99 Buy: book | ebook I could travel the world for years and never get halfway through my bucket list of all the sporting events I’d love to attend in person. But certainly one thing way up high…

How to Read Derek Jeter: On The Devil’s Snake Curve by Josh Ostergaard

How to Read Derek Jeter: On The Devil’s Snake Curve by Josh Ostergaard

The Devil’s Snake Curve: A Fan’s Notes From Left FieldJosh OstergaardCoffee House Press, 2014253 pages$15.95 Buy: ebook Of course every history is subjective, but Josh Ostergaard starts his from an intriguing place by broadcasting his subjectivity. Devil’s Snake Curve is Ostergaard’s American history of the twentieth- and twenty-first—centuries, as interpreted through baseball. The book is a…

The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Great Tennis Player: Looking Back at Foster Wallace on Federer

The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Great Tennis Player: Looking Back at Foster Wallace on Federer

Under Review: “Federer as Religious Experience,” article by David Foster Wallace for New York Times, August 20, 2006. Collected in Both Flesh and Not: Essays (Little, Brown and Company, 2012, 336 pages). On July 6th, Swiss tennis player Roger Federer lost the final match in this year’s Wimbledon men’s tennis tournament, to the Serbian tennis…