The Best American Sports Writing 2016 (The Best American Series)

The Best American Sports Writing 2016 (The Best American Series)

<DIV>For more than twenty-five years, <I>The Best American Sports Writing </I>has curated the year’s finest sports journalism. Continuing the tradition in a long line of notable guest editors is Rick Telander, acclaimed journalist, author, and champion of the written word<I>. </I>His choices are defined by one shared thread: effort, on the part of athletes and writers alike. The physical strength it takes to play professional hockey and football, or for a forty-two-year-old writer to learn how to dunk in six months. The mental and emotional toughness needed to turn around a losing team, or to speak out about a coach. The careful striving to make everything seem effortless. This edition encompasses it all.<BR /><BR /><I>The Best American Sports Writing 2016 </I>includes Don Van Natta Jr. and Seth Wickersham,  L. Jon Wertheim and Ken Rodriguez,  Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru, Brett Popplewell, Alexandra Starr, Wright Thompson<I> and others</I><BR /><BR />RICK TELANDER is a <I>Chicago Sun-Times</I> senior sports columnist and the Basketball Evangelist for <I>Slam</I> magazine. He has also written for <I>Sports Illustrated</I> and <I>ESPN: The Magazine, </I>and has been featured seven times in <I>The Best American Sports Writing. </I>He is the author of eight books, including <I>Heaven Is a Playground </I>and <I>From Red Ink to Roses.</I><BR /><BR />GLENN STOUT, series editor of <I>The Best American Sports Writing </I>since its inception, is the author of <I>Young Woman and the Sea </I>and <I>Fenway 1912</I>.</DIV>