Creative nonfiction and stories from around the world of sports.
(excerpt from the intro to my Daily Fantasy Hockey Morning Coffee on Sporfolio) Indulge me for a minute before DFS … Ocotber 13ths are always strange for me. On Friday October 13, 1995 I found myself face down, hiding, in a “friend’s” car, drunk, high as hell, with a police officer screaming at me …
Detroit Tigers radio broadcasters Dan Dickerson and Jim Price keep a dying art alive.
XN editor Tom Fitzgerald thanks the Boston Red Sox for helping him find his soul again.
Baseball painter Graig Kreindler has made a name for himself by painting dead baseball players. Not baseball players while dead, but baseball players who are currently dead.
Mike Salisbury fleshes out the enigma that is Dontrelle Willis, and the Dontrelle Willis that used to be Dontrelle Willis.
B.J. Jones recalls the year he won the Vezina and Hart trophies, on NHL ’95.
Fiction author Peter Markus reminds us that Mark Fidrych only needed one season to leave his singular mark on the game.
When I write, I am reaching always back to words already written. I reach back now to take hold of the words of Samuel Beckett who staked this declaration into the hard dirt of our living ground: “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
