The Best American Sports Writing 2019

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by Charles P. Pierce


  PETER FLAX

  Lost and Found. CyclingTips, June 8

  REID FORGRAVE

  The Penance of John Calipari. GQ, March

  ROBERTO JOSé ANDRADE FRANCO

  Canelo, at Young. Boxing and History, December 27

  KARLEIGH FRISBIE

  Two Piece. Water-Stone Review, vol. 21

  JOHN GIFFORD

  Decoy. The Meadow, 2018

  ALLISON GLOCK

  A New Dawn. ESPN The Magazine, April 2

  LATRIA GRAHAM

  How an E-Bike Got Me Riding Again After 20 Years. Bicycling, July

  VANESSA GRIGORIADIS

  Spring Forward. Vanity Fair, Summer

  JAKE GRONSKY

  Nine Days in Cape Cod. FanSided, July 31 and August 8

  BRIAN HAMILTON

  “Why Not Us?” The Athletic, May 17

  MATT HART

  The Man Who Brought Down Lance Armstrong Isn’t Done with Him Yet. The Atlantic, May

  ANDREW HELMS AND MATT PENTZ

  Own Goal. The Ringer, June 5

  MAGGIE HENDRICKS

  The Special Olympics Changes Everything for This Family, and Millions of Others. For the Win/USA Today, July 20

  DAVID HILL

  In the Pit with the Fighting Roosters. The Ringer, July 10

  EVA HOLLAND

  I Would Walk 100 Miles. Globe and Mail, March 17

  TED JACKSON

  The Search for Jackie Wallace. New Orleans Times-Picayune, February 2018

  SALLY JENKINS

  The People in Charge of This Horror Must Be Exposed and Punished. Washington Post, January 25

  STEPHON JOHNSON

  The Struggles of Being a Black Baseball Fan. The Week, August 30

  CHLOé COOPER JONES

  Juan Martín del Potro Strikes Back. GQ, September

  GARE JOYCE

  Doc’s Last Season. SportsNet, November 7

  TOM JUNOD

  For Auburn Softball, Joy on the Surface Obscured Darker Truths Within. ESPN.com, June 1

  SHANNON KEATING

  These Basketball Players Sued Their College for Anti-Gay Discrimination—and Lost. BuzzFeed, May 24

  ZAK KEEFER

  The Inspirational Life of Edwin Jackson. Indianapolis Star, September 30

  CHRISTOPHER KEMPF

  Lost Mode. Indiana Review, Summer

  MIKE KESSLER

  Life and Limb. Red Bulletin, April

  MINA KIMES

  Aly Raisman Takes the Floor. ESPN The Magazine, July

  KRISTA LANGLOIS

  Change the Culture. Outside, March

  JEANNE MARIE LASKAS

  Serena Williams Is Champion of the Year. GQ, December 2018/January 2019

  ANDREW LAWRENCE

  This Boy’s Life. Men’s Health, July/August

  JOON LEE

  Jimmy Garoppolo Is Superman in Disguise. Bleacher Report, July 23

  STEPHANIE M. LEE

  Double Crossed. BuzzFeed, June 28

  FRANCES LEFKOWITZ

  Double Overhead. Catamaran, Winter

  JULIET MACUR

  Suicides, Drug Addiction, and High School Football. New York Times, March 8

  PETE MADDEN, CINDY GALLI, BRIAN EPSTEIN, AND CHO PARK

  “A Deliberate Cover-up?” ABC.com, March 12

  GEOFF MANAUGH

  Parking for Gold. The Atlantic, January 2

  STEVE MARSH

  The Riders. Victory Journal, May

  EMILY MCCULLAR

  Flesh and Blood. Texas Monthly, October

  BEN MCGRATH

  The Men Who Have Taken Wiffle Ball to a Crazy Competitive Place. The New Yorker, August 31.

  KELSEY MCKINNEY

  Home Field Disadvantage. Longreads, November 30

  MAGGIE MERTENS

  London Red and Blue. The Howler, Winter/Spring

  EVAN F. MOORE

  Icing Racism. Chicago Reader, April 12

  PAOLA MORETTI

  Body Armour. Catapult, February 8

  LUKE MULLINS

  Nine Minutes of Terror. Washingtonian, June

  ALEXANDRIA NEASON

  The Woman Coming for Larry Nassar’s Job. Bleacher Report, July 19

  HANSON O’HAVER

  A Crime and a Pastime. The Baffler, no. 40

  ALISON OSIUS

  On the Earl. Rock and Ice, January

  NICK PACHELLI

  Justin Olsen Will Get Lost. Esquire, February

  KEITH PARADISE

  High Wire Act. Billiards Digest, June 2018

  NICK PAUMGARTEN

  Weaponized. The New Yorker, May 21

  ANNA PEELE

  “Fight Club” with Better Jokes. ESPN The Magazine, November 12

  ANDREA PETKOVIC

  Tennis vs. Tennis. Racquet/Longreads, July

  MIKE PIELLUCCI

  A Football Family Regroups. New York Times, December 17

  BILL PLASCHKE

  Hall of Fame Jockey Victor Espinoza, His Body Broken by One Fateful Fall, Is Holding on for Dear Life. Los Angeles Times, August 18

  STEVE POLITI

  The Boxer Who Became a Bagger. NJ.com, June 19

  ROBERT ANDREW POWELL

  The Passion of Mike Piazza. The Athletic, December 18

  BRIDGET QUINN

  Pilots. Narrative Magazine, November 15

  BENJAMIN RACHLIN

  Sailing Blind. Pacific Standard, December 18

  HEATHER RADKE

  A Beginner’s Guide to Fly Fishing with Your Father. Longreads, June 15

  CLAUDIA RANKINE

  Cam Newton Confounds Both His Fans and His Haters. The Undefeated, January 31

  BEN REITER

  What Happened to the Houston Astros’ Hacker? Sports Illustrated, October 4

  SAM RICHES

  West Across the Sea. Longreads, October 19

  ALYSSA ROENIGK

  Kid Fearless. ESPN The Magazine, February 9

  TIM ROHAN

  Strip Clubs, CTE Talk, and a CBD Sales Pitch. SI.com, January 29

  C. TRENT ROSECRANS

  Where Baseball Starts. The Athletic, September 4

  TRACY ROSS

  Skiing & Booze. 5280 Magazine, December

  JEFF RUETER

  What Happened? The Howler, Winter/Spring 2018

  RICHARD RYS

  Inside the Brilliant, Baffling, Beautiful, Bizarre, and Utterly Fascinating Baseball Mind of Gabe Kapler. Philadelphia Magazine, April

  SETH SAWYERS

  He Was the Best We’d Ever Seen. Literary Hub, June 17

  MARGARET SEILER

  Tonya’s Turn. Portland Monthly, January

  JASHVINA SHAH

  Hockey Is for Everyone. Pen Transmissions, October 3

  DAVE SHEININ

  His Lifelong Dream Was About to Come True. Then It Rained. Washington Post, September 2

  ALAN SHIPNUCK

  Troubled Off the Tee. Golf Magazine, January

  MIKE SIELSKI

  The Toughest Call. Philadelphia Daily News/Philadelphia Inquirer, August 1

  DANYEL SMITH

  Most Dominant Athlete of 2018: Simone Biles. The Undefeated, December 11

  RORY SMITH AND ELIAN PELTIER

  The Boys from the Banlieues. New York Times, June 10

  CHRISTOPHER SOLOMON

  When Your Body Says No. Outside Online, December 17

  SARAH SPAIN

  Runs in the Family. ESPN.com, September 2

  DAVID STEELE

  An Endless Fight, a Defining Choice. The Sporting News, October 15

  KURT STREETER

  Talent. A Football Scholarship. Then Crushing Depression. New York Times, November 15

  TIM STRUBY

  The Glass Sideline. SB Nation, November 27

  IRA SUKRUNGRUANG

  Maintenance Boy. The Sun, September

  ERIC VAN METER

  St. Anthony and Buddha Bike Through the Desert. Sport Literate, November 15

  TOM VERDUCCI


  Freedom from the Press. Sports Illustrated, September 24–October 1

  JENNY VRENTAS

  Friends with (On-Field) Benefits. Sports Illustrated, January 29–February 5

  GRANT WAHL

  The Reyna’s Story of Loss and Legacy. SI.com, December 12

  SHIRLEY WANG

  My Dad’s Friendship with Charles Barkley. WBUR/Only a Game, December 14

  MICHAEL WEINREB

  The Birth of Steph. The Ringer, March 14

  L. JON WERTHEIM AND JESSICA LUTHER

  Inside the Corrosive Workplace Culture of the Dallas Mavericks. SI.com, February 20

  JOE WHITTLE

  Adventures on the Turtle’s Back. Alpinist, May

  SETH WICKERSHAM

  For Kraft, Brady, and Belichick, Is This the Beginning of the End? ESPN.com, January 4

  MICAH WIMMER

  In the Shadow of a King. Fansided, May 31

  DENNIS YOUNG

  Freestyle. Victory Journal, Fall

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  About the Editors

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  Charles P. Pierce, guest editor, is a sportswriter, a political blogger, and the author of four books, including Moving the Chains: Tom Brady and the Pursuit of Everything. He has written for a wide variety of publications, including the New York Times, Esquire, the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe, Sports Illustrated, GQ, the National, and ESPN’s Grantland.

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  Glenn Stout, series editor, is the author of The Pats (with Richard A. Johnson), Young Woman and the Sea, and Fenway 1912. He has been the editor of The Best American Sports Writing since its inception in 1991. He lives in Vermont.

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