The Best American Sports Writing 2014
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The Shining. Buzzfeed.com, April 7
JEFF MAYSH
Half-Time Hero. The Howler, Summer
JAMES MCKEAN
So Much More. Southern Humanities Review, “Cultural Memoir” special issue
ELIZABETH MERRILL
Tommy Morrison’s Latest Big Fight. ESPN.com, August 21
ROB MIECH
Westwood to the Far East. Basketball Times, June
JAMES ANDREW MILLER, STEVE EDER, AND RICHARD SANDOMIR
Remote Control. New York Times, August 24–27
HELEN MORT
Footfalls. The Alpinist, Autumn
BROOK MORTON
Operation No Fear. Scuba Diving, August
JOHN CAGNEY NASH
The Hail Mary for Ryan Leaf. Playboy, September
ERIC NUSBAUM
Who Doesn’t Exist. Deadspin.com, September 11
BRIAN PHILLIPS
Out in the Great Alone. Grantland.com, May 9
BILL PLASCHKE
As Jackie Robinson Was Making History, Wendell Smith Wrote It. Los Angeles Times, April 14
S. L. PRICE
What We Lost. Sports Illustrated, December 9
ERIC PRISBELL
Kansas’ Ben McLemore Fights Through Poverty to NCAA’s Center Stage. USA Today, June 21
DAVID PROFUMO
A Town Without Soup. Gray’s Sporting Journal, vol. 38, issue 7
SHANNON PROUDFOOT
Going Overboard. Sportsnet, May 6
JANA PRUDEN
Fear on the Family Farm. Edmonton Journal, March 16
BEN REITER
The World’s Most Interesting Unicorn. Sports Illustrated, December 9
STEVE ROSENBLOOM
17 Seconds. Chicago Tribune, June 30
ROBERT SANCHEZ
Max Scherzer: A Brother’s Passage. ESPN.com, December 30
GRAYSON SCHAFFER
A Dangerous World Waits Above. Outside, May
MARK SEAL
The Shooting Star and the Model. Vanity Fair, June
MELISSA SEGURA
The Beautiful Game Turned Ugly. Sports Illustrated, May 27
DAN SHAUGHNESSY
Your Sports Columnist Is Here to Write, Not to Root. Boston Globe, December 18
ROBERT SILVERMAN
Everything and More: Excess, Success, and Acronyms at Sloan. The Classical, March 11
GARY SMITH
Frank Hall, American Hero. Sports Illustrated, June 24
BRANDON SNEED
The Prospect. SBNation.com, June 6
JASON SOBEL
Eddie Pearce. TheGolfChannel.com, March 12
MATTHEW STANMYRE
A Holiday Lesson. Newark Star-Ledger, January 29
WARREN ST. JOHN
Sympathy for the Devil. GQ, September
MIMI SWARTZ
Failure Is Not an Option. Texas Monthly, October
WRIGHT THOMPSON
Michael Jordan Has Not Left the Building. ESPN: The Magazine, February 22
JOHN VANDERSLICE
Thirteen More Miles. 1966: A Journal of Creative Nonfiction, Fall
MICHAEL WEINREB
The Kings of Q*bert. Grantland.com, December 1
SETH WICKERSHAM
The Book of Coach. ESPN: The Magazine, February 4
CHRIS WIEWIORA
Skatespotting. Stymie, September
LUKE WINN
The Endless Summer of Bob Uecker. Sports Illustrated, July 1
BRAD WOLVERTON
With God on Our Side. Journal of Higher Education, November 24
DAVE ZIRIN
The NFL’s Bully Problem. The Nation, November 4
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About the Editors
CHRISTOPHER MCDOUGALL, guest editor, is the best-selling author of Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen and the forthcoming Natural Born Heroes.
GLENN STOUT, series editor, is the author, editor, or ghostwriter of nearly eighty books, including the best-selling Fenway 1912, Red Sox Century, and Yankees Century. He’s been the series editor of The Best American Sports Writing since its inception in 1991.
Footnotes
* The Poliedro de Caracas was actually opened in 1974 with a fight between George Foreman and Ken Norton.
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