Sports in a bubble. That’s how return-to-play scenarios have been described. Empty stadiums. Teams quarantined in hotels between games and practices. Regular Covid-19 tests for all involved. The complicated plans reflect the eagerness to resume play — at least, the … Read more
2018 was a big year for U.S. women’s national ice hockey team member Meghan Duggan, both professionally and personally. Between captaining the gold medal-winning team at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in February—where Team USA defeated Canada, 3-2—and … Read more
Sue Bird, 38, is one of the greatest basketball players of all-time. Period. After winning two NCAA championships at UConn, Bird was the first overall pick in the 2002 WNBA draft. She has spent her entire … Read more
On May 18, with the NBA and NHL playoffs making headlines across the country, three of the four stories on the front page of the Minneapolis Star Tribune sports section focused on women’s sports, including the WNBA’s Minnesota Lynx. Read more
When Washington Post sports reporter Kent Babb traveled to Oakland, Calif., to report a feature story on Oakland Raiders running back Marshawn Lynch during the summer of 2017, Babb knew that convincing Lynch to cooperate would … Read more
When Cam Newton, one of the biggest names in the NFL, said, “It’s funny to hear a female talk about routes; like, it’s funny” while responding to a question from Carolina Panthers beat reporter Jourdan Rodrigue of … Read more
Wanted: sports reporters. Requirements: Boundless energy, fast fingers, a thick skin, and no need for sleep. To do the job today means tracking innumerable team-related blogs and Twitter feeds, tweeting constantly, writing blogs, live-blogging games and then filing words, sometimes video, and updating news at a pace unimagined even a few years ago. Mixed in with on-the-ground anecdotes and insights about this experience are remembrances of sportswriters—Frank Deford, Red Smith and Gay Talese—whose enduring stories about games and athletes appeared in newspapers and magazines. Read more
Nearly a century later Twitter is the telegraph in the press box. Reporters watch the New York Giants play the Philadelphia Athletics in the 1913 World Series. Image from the George Grantham Bain … Read more
Early in October Gay Talese came to the Boston Athenaeum to celebrate publication of “The Silent Season of a Hero: The Sports Writing of Gay Talese.” In this collection of his stories, his words span nearly five … Read more
