2020-2021 Reading List

Books

The Sports Gene, David Epstein/2014

The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Thing in Sports, Jeff Passan/2016

New York Days, Willie Morris/1994

The Fifth Risk, Michael Lewis/2018

The Tao of Seneca

Big Game: The NFL in Dangerous Times, Mark Leibovich/2018

The Inner Game of Tennis, Timothy Gallwey/1974

This Town, Mark Leibovich/2014

The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho/1988

String Theory, David Foster Wallace/2016

Collected Fictions, Jorge Luis Borges

The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War, Louis Menand/2021

Stories

Driving the Beat road, Jeff Weiss/The Washington Post

A Coronavirus Fix That Passes the Smell Test, Michael Lewis/Bloomberg

Walking By Faith, Chase Goodbread/NFL.com

Bam Adebayo is the fiercest, best NBA player you don’t know, Zach Lowe/ESPN

Searching for Tomorrow: The Story of Madlib and DOOM’s Madvillainy, Jeff Weiss/Pitchfork

Why Michael Jordan Was The Best, Neil Paine/FiveThirtyEight

The RZA has made some of your favorite music. Now he wants to help you find enlightenment, Jeff Weiss/The Washington Post

Feel the City’s Pulse? It’s Be-bop, Man!, Ann Douglas/The New York Times, 1998

Michael Jordan: A history of flight, Wright Thompson/ESPN

The Crack-Up, F. Scott Fitzgerald/Esquire, 1936

The String Theory, David Foster Wallace/Esquire

Why Tim Duncan is the most influential player of his time, Kevin Arnovitz/ESPN

The Office Will Never Be the Same, Claire Cain Miller/The New York Times

A Homespun Hedge Fund, Tucked Away in Texas, Simon Romero/The New York Times, 2003

Daryl Morey and Billy Beane’s Greatest Achievement Was Capturing Our Imaginations, Brian Phillips/The Ringer

How the spread offense conquered college football, from Hal Mumme to Joe Burrow, Bill Connelly/ESPN

Mike D Is Cleaning Out the Family Attic, Alex Pappademas/The New York Times

The secrets of how Liverpool scout, Simon Hughes and James Pearce/The Athletic

The Best Steely Dan Songs, Ranked, Steven Hyden/UPROXX

The Art and Science of “Feel” in Basketball, Evan Zaucha

Rams’ playoff hopes now depend upon Brandon Staley’s boundary-pushing defense, Robert Mays/The Athletic

The Whole Messy, Ridiculous GameStop Saga in One Sentence, Derek Thompson/The Atlantic

Aaron Rodgers Has Something to Say … to Pat McAfee, Bryan Curtis/The Ringer

The Last Handshake: Remembering Legendary New York Basketball Scout Tom Konchalski, Adam Zagoria/Forbes

Lawrence Ferlinghetti obituary, Jesse McKinley/The New York Times

Why America’s Housing Market Has Never Been Weirder, Derek Thompson/The Atlantic

How Freddie Gibbs Beat the Odds to Reach the Mountaintop, Jeff Weiss/The Ringer

Private Schools Have Become Truly Obscene, Caitlin Flanagan/The Atlantic

Inside the Rams’ major changes to their draft process and why they won’t go back to ‘normal’, Jourdan Rodrigue/The Athletic

What Doomed a Sprawling City Near St. Louis 1,000 Years Ago?, Asher Elbein/The New York Times

What Bobby McIlvaine Left Behind, Jennifer Senior/The Atlantic

How Steely Dan became a Cult Favorite for Millennials, Derek Robertson/The Ringer

Does My Son Know You?, Jonathan Tjarks/The Ringer