Like A League of Their Own, which brought light to the underreported and long-forgotten role of women in professional baseball, the 2002 feature film mentioned in Timothy Grainey’s title gave a boost to women’s soccer (albeit in a... Read More

The days of athletes drinking during exercise and chugging liquids before endurance races may well be over. And while this may still be news to some, Tim Noakes has recognized the danger of these practices for decades. A physician,... Read More

For more than a decade Tiger Woods has been one of the most celebrated men in the history of sports. At a young age, this dynamo took the golf world by storm, accumulating the same number of titles and trophies in a dozen or so years... Read More

Eclipse was the greatest racing thoroughbred of eighteenth-century England, having never been defeated in any of his races and raising the bar for the horseracing industry. The horse enjoyed a second career as a much-sought-after stud.... Read More

The literal translation of the Japanese word banzai is “ten thousand years.” But the Japanese use it like the French use vive or the English “long live.” To think that the Japanese in 1934, amid crumbling relations with America,... Read More

Horse racing has charmed spectators for centuries. The flashing colors, the flying clods of dirt, the foamy sheen on the muscled bodies of horses who look like they’re enjoying themselves, and the thrill of victory make the fans in the... Read More

In her book Throwaway Players: The Concussion Crisis, From Pee Wee Football to the NFL, former Tampa Bay Buccaneers President Gay Culverhouse reveals the dark side of football in America. Today’s fans see the six-figure contracts, the... Read More

Writing an entire book about an esoteric athletic event, the 1989 Ironman triathlon, could be a daunting task. But the author eases readers into the nuances of the sport, capturing imaginations with a satisfying study of two exceptional... Read More