Notable Sports Writing of 2014
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J A T**+ B'-A Second Sight. Sierra, January/ Girls Fight Out. Matter, February December 9 M!" A B! B,' Speed Riders. Ski Magazine, Un0nished. NCAA Champion, October August 18 L!#! A#! B!-J% B,%# It All Began with OJ. Vanity Fair, Héroes for Sale. SB Nation, June June 10 K$! A %& Growing Up Beckham. New York J C7 Daily News, December 1 16 Years After Oregon State C! F#!"! A#' Football Gang-Rape Allegation, Below the Beautiful Horizon. Brenda Tracy Steps from Harper’s Magazine, June 24 the Shadows. The Oregonian, November 14 R" B#'(! S C**! Learn to Kill in Seven Days or Take It Off the Board. Dallas Less. GQ, February Observer, November 6 K B!& Z" C! Mister Ten Percent. BuzzFeed Tony Dorsett Is Losing His News, June 6 Mind. D Magazine, February S%) G. B# C," C,#))) Three Seconds. FactionMagazine, The Value of Struggle. Sports on November 9 Earth, April 15 S B' A Swift Luge Plunge into A#<' D! Frozen Sorrow. The Seattle Times, From Humble Beginnings. The February 2 Shadow League, March 5 =>? Notable Sports Writing of 2014
L D@&+ G& H# In Pahokee, Football Serves as The Many Crimes of Mel Hall. a Way Out. Tampa Bay Times, SB Nation, July 15 December 14 N"+ H K%+ D! Fallon Fox: The Toughest The Undefeated Champions of Woman in Sports. GQ, January Defeat City. GQ, May E! H'&' Joe Hardcore: The Spartan Race J F& Founder Tells All. Men’s Journal, Dropped. Grantland, March 18 July C!%! F+ S H<"! Running Back from Hell. The Game Is to Be Sold. The Runner’s World, March Classical, July 1 J F!# G& H(' Writer’s Love of Basketball How Jon Jones Became the Comes from Special Driveway Baddest Motherfucker on Earth. Game Devised with Dad. Deadspin, December 30 ThePostGame, March 13 P%!" H,+ L( F' Can a Better Helmet Save Your United Nations of Basketball. Kid’s Brain? Washingtonian, Basketball Times, May December 2 S%$ F!' R% H, Blown Together. Runner’s World, The Last Days of Bill Conlin. May Philadelphia, April 1
R+ G#'& P% J' Secret to Success. ProPublica, An Idiot in Exile. Sports on Earth, May 2 July 24 A G' D( J, ' P% B# Did Football Cause 20 Deaths in Last Chance U. GQ, November 1905? Deadspin, January 22 M!"# G** J K%7 Up, and Away. Washingtonian, Safe. Los Angeles, May April Z K* J% G The Ageless Adam Vinatieri. The Hare and the Hunter. Indianapolis Star, December 28 Virginia Quarterly Review, Winter E!" K% S G&+ ' A#[' The End Is Not Near. Bicycling, W#** May The Game That Saved March N!" K !' ' B< ! Madness. Time, March 13 H" Everything Matters. The Denver D$!' H&#,' Post, November 30–December 1 Why Isn’t Delonte West in the M!"# K, NBA? Slate, June 4 The Making of a Prodigy. S)" H## Floridian, March The Istanbul Derby. SB Nation, April 28 Notable Sports Writing of 2014 =>^
The Right Thing to Do vs. the Night. The Boston Globe, March State of Florida. SB Nation, 23 August 26 M%% N&! T L Silence in the Favela. SB Nation, The Other Side of a Miracle. June 4 Sports Illustrated, November 25 B N!"# J" L& The River Pharaohs. Canoe & The Beautiful Language. Roads Kayak, June & Kingdoms, February 20 M%% N#' T! L+' Bond Beyond Basketball. CBS Danger Zone. Sports Illustrated, Sports, November 21 September 1 J!" L,% J S. O’C The Wrestler and the Rape The Ice House. Under the Sun, Victim. Vice Sports, December 15 July 31
J** M"@& W!##! P(## The Illustrated Man. ESPN.com, Eat, Pray, Shove. St. Louis, May 22 August R!" M The Last Flight of Speedy S"%% R Peterson. The Washington Post, God (Still) Hates Cleveland. January 5 Esquire, September E! M#!(! S R+ Pitchman. Fox Sports, July 17 Takes Enemy. Narrative, Fall S M## D R Remote Control. The Believer, Home and Really Far Away. January SportsNet, May 12 J** M+ M!"# R,! Halftime Hero. Howler, Fall Larry Bird’s Greatest Shot The Legend of Panther Girl. Was the One He Didn’t Take. Victory Journal, December Indianapolis Monthly, December J. B'+ McC##,& R"" R,!7 Evgeni Malkin. Pittsburgh Post- Soccer Broke My Brain. Aeon, Gazette, February 8 March 21 B+ M# Harvester Good. Texas Monthly, A#% S November Over the Volcano. The Village D,& M!## Voice, March 11 Colabello Has Quite a Story to K#* S Tell. MLB.com, May 22 Mean Girl. The New Yorker, July E' M!## 28 Holding Court. The Virginian- G+ S"** Pilot, June 19 Black Year. Outside, August E!" M(!%7 J S"! For Jared Remy, Leniency Was Memories of a Master. Blood- the Rule Until One Lethal Horse, May 12 ={| Notable Sports Writing of 2014
L!77+ S",##+ L,! T Birth, Sickness, Old Age, Death. Together We Make Football. Alpinist, March Grantland, September 17 M%%( S R"# T Bangkok Prison Blood Sport. Learning to Pitch. SB Nation, Men’s Journal, April June 13 D$ S!! and K! P,# T,& T ) A Speck in the Sea. New York The N Word. The Washington Times Magazine, January 2 Post, November 9 G+ S#% C!%! V D, Gary Shelton’s Hardest Word: Foul Territory. Atlanta, August Goodbye. Tampa Bay Times, November 14 L. J W%! and K D!# S## R'!&,7 The Big Pin. Colorado Review, Young, Gifted, and Homeless. Summer Sports Illustrated, October 20 A# S!&# L!77! W!''!" Sabre Rattler. Sports on Earth, In Cold Mud. The New Yorker, January 6 January 27 R% S!#$ B' W#$% Native American Basketball The Courting of Marvin Clark. Team in Wyoming Have Hoop The Journal of Higher Education, Dreams of Their Own. The Daily June 1 Beast, August 31 E##!%% D. W' B+ S !% A Death at Touch Mudder. The Long Rebound for Darrell Outside, January Williams. Chicago, September S% S%$ S, Z#!' Grandmaster Clash. Slate, The Murders Before the September 18 Marathon. Boston, March
P% T # Out of Power. Sports Illustrated, August 25