Creative nonfiction and stories from around the world of sports.
Tiger Stadium no longer rises up on the corner of Michigan and Trumbull. The land itself where Tiger legends like Cobb and Kaline owned Detroit’s most infamous corner house has been left to go (for the past ten seasons) to weed.
It’s true: memory has its own story to tell. For Adam Foote to make the claim that the Avalanche “kicked Detroit’s ass” is to listen to a man speak with his foot stuck fully in his mouth.
Fiction author Peter Markus gives a final salute to Tigers manager Jim Leyland as he retires after his eighth season as Detroit’s manager.
Tony Consiglio recounts his journey swimming with great white sharks.
At certain points, the real world butts into our daily sports lives. It shakes us from our diversion and makes us ask real questions, and come up with some very tough answers. Today, that happened, when the bombs went off at the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon.
Every morning the final score of the Boston Bruins game was written down on a scrap piece of paper on the kitchen table in my childhood house. I could count on it. It was my own sports page written out in my father’s precise block letters. I was eight years old and only allowed to …
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