On the cusp of the 2014 World Cup, a look the Mexican national soccer team, in all its sorrow and anguish.
2014 ESPN FC World Cup Guide
Edited by Rebecca Nordquist.
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Coach, Remembered
Until he died at age 71, while rowing on a lake in Maine, my college cross country and track coach, Jim Wescott was a mentor and sensei to hundreds of athletes. Here’s an account of what it was like to run for him.
Colby Magazine
Edited by Gerry Boyle.
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Stairway to Hell
Inside the arcane world of competitive stair racing.
The New York Times Magazine
Edited by Dean Robinson. Photograph by Stephen Ferry.
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America’s Best Bike City
Why Portland is number one.
Bicycling
Edited by Dave Howard.
Photograph by Charles Gullung.
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Fixing Diane’s Brain
Diane Van Deren overcame epilepsy and then became a top ultramarathoner. Did her brain surgery help improve her pain tolerance, or is she just tough?
Runner’s World
Republished in Best American Sports Writing 2012.
Edited by Charlie Butler. Photograph by Evan Hurd.
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On With The Snow
The author launches a career as a nordic ski racer.
The Washington Post Magazine
Edited by David Rowell. Photos by Layne Kennedy.
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Flogging Genghis Khan
Bicycling to the world’s largest statue of Genghis Khan, in Mongolia. Edited by Tim Lavin.
The Atlantic
Edited by Tim Lavin. Photo by Jeffrey Kerby.
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The Green Bicycle Murder
On a warm summer evening in 1919, a comely young factory worker named Bella Wright set out for a bicycle ride through the country lanes outside Leicester, England. What happened next involved a revolver, a raven, and a shady character on a high-end green bicycle.
Bicycling
Edited by Bill Strickland. Illustrations by Chris Gall.
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The Boys from Brazil
American rodeo is taking on a Latin flair.
The Atlantic
Edited by Don Peck. Photo by Alison London.
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