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• BASKETBALL: THE SPORT THAT GREW UP ON ASPHALT AND NEVER FORGOT

  by Richard Waters Mar 4
  Ten feet of air between you and everything you ever wanted Basketball was invented in a gymnasium in Massachusetts in 1891 by a Canadian named James Naismith who nailed a peach basket to a balcony railing and told thirteen guys to figure it out. He probably had no idea. He had no idea that what...

• TENNIS: YOU VERSUS THEM, NO TEAMMATES, NO EXCUSES, NOWHERE TO H

  by Richard Waters Mar 4
  A sport played in silence that screams louder than almost anything Tennis is the cruelest sport ever dressed up in white. Think about what we're actually asking these people to do. Walk out onto a court — alone, completely alone, no teammates, no huddles, no one to pick you up when it's go...

• BASEBALL: THE SLOW BURN SPORT IN A WORLD THAT FORGOT HOW TO WAI

  by Richard Waters Mar 3
  Three hours of nothing and everything, served with peanut shells on the floor Baseball will lose you if you let it. You'll glance at your phone for thirty seconds and miss the only thing that mattered in the entire inning. You'll step away for a hot dog and come back to a completely different ga...

• BOXING: THE SPORT THAT LOOKS YOU DEAD IN THE EYES AND DOESN'T B

  by Richard Waters Mar 2
  A love letter to the loneliest, most honest game ever invented There is no sport on earth that will tell you the truth about yourself faster than boxing. Not the comfortable truth. Not the truth you tell people at parties when they ask how things are going. The other kind. The kind that lives at...

• YOUR TEAM IS BREAKING YOUR HEART AND YOU WOULDN'T HAVE IT ANY O

  by Richard Waters Mar 2
  Notes from a lifetime of caring too much about things I cannot control My grandfather watched his team lose for 31 years straight before they finally won anything worth talking about. Thirty-one years. That's not fandom. That's a commitment. That's the kind of loyalty that would be considered un...