On Carl Yastrzemski On Carl Yastrzemski
My family always rooted for the underdog.
Jul 27, 2011 / Cecile Richards
On Bobby Thomson and Hank Thompson On Bobby Thomson and Hank Thompson
Bobby Thomson’s “shot heard ’round the world” and something my father told me.
Jul 27, 2011 / Bob Herbert
On Monica Seles On Monica Seles
The collective resentment of Monica Seles was an expression of our cultural discomfort with a kind of overt female aggression that seems to revel in itself.
Jul 27, 2011 / Jennifer Egan
Frank Beard Frank Beard
I may have been delusional about my golf game, but not about Frank Beard's.
Jul 27, 2011 / Stephen F. Cohen
On Toller Cranston On Toller Cranston
Toller Cranston single-handedly reinvented men's skating.
Jul 27, 2011 / Dahlia Lithwick
Peter King Targets Somali-American Radicalization—and the ‘New York Times’ Peter King Targets Somali-American Radicalization—and the ‘New York Times’
Rep. Peter King held his third hearing into domestic Muslim radicalization, but found plenty of time to bash the New York Times along the way.
Jul 27, 2011 / George Zornick
On Joe Namath and Yvan Cournoyer On Joe Namath and Yvan Cournoyer
My two first sports heroes, in a long and ever-expanding gallery, were oddly matched, though both wore the number twelve.
Jul 27, 2011 / Adam Gopnik
On Roberto Clemente On Roberto Clemente
I was blown away by the intensity and grace with which Roberto Clemente played the game.
Jul 27, 2011 / John Sayles
On Jim Thorpe On Jim Thorpe
As we near the 100th anniversary of Jim Thorpe’s triumph in the 1912 Olympics, his story is worth telling again and again.
Jul 27, 2011 / Dennis Kucinich