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Posted on July 23rd, 2017 in Weekly Roundup by Mark Alewine

Michael Rosenberg of Sports Illustrated profiles MLB umpire Joe West and his quest to preserve umpiring and traditional baseball as technology becomes a bigger part of the game. David Fleming of ESPN gives some inside perspective on athletes and what happens when they need to relieve themselves. Will Magee of Vice Sports relives the contentious …

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Posted on June 6th, 2017 in Weekly Roundup by Mark Alewine

Seth Davis looks back on his 22 years with Sports Illustrated in his final article with the magazine. Tommy Caldwell writes in Outside that he fears for his close friend, climber Alex Honnold, after he became the first person to free solo climb El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. Luke O’Neil of Esquire writes about …

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Posted on March 20th, 2017 in Weekly Roundup by Mark Alewine

After 100 or so hours of college hoops this weekend, decompress with some of the best sports writing from the last week. South Carolina’s upset of Duke Sunday night was the easily the biggest story coming out of the first weekend of March Madness. Michael Baumann of The Ringer gives some great context to the …

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Posted on February 6th, 2017 in Weekly Roundup by Mark Alewine

If we’re going to hold true to the lesson learned in middle school football that we’ll learn more from our losses than our wins, the Falcons will be the wisest men in history. Whether its the Falcons epic collapse/Patriots epic comeback (whichever side you’re on), from a great story comes great writing. Scroll down for some of …

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