RAMONA SHELBURNE
Mamba Out. ESPN.com, April 19
ALAN SHIPNUCK
What Happened? Sports Illustrated, April 4
ROBERT SILVERMAN
Gay for Pay. Vocativ, June 7
FLOYD SKLOOT
He Had a Falcon. Boulevard, Fall
PAUL SOLOTAROFF
Caught Looking. Men’s Journal, October
WILLY STALEY
Thrashed. California Sunday Magazine, April 3
BARRETT SWANSON
Audibles. Mississippi Review, Winter
ROBERT TANNENBAUM
The Life and Murder of Stella Walsh, Intersex Olympic Champion. Longreads, August
TOMMY TOMLINSON
Ichiro Suzuki, Still Connecting. ESPN.com, July 19
TOM VERDUCCI
The Voice of Baseball. Sports Illustrated, May 10
REEVES WIEDEMAN
Arrow Heads. Harper’s, July
DANIEL WILCO
ANDREW ZALESKI
Sky Pilot. Wired, September
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HOWARD BRYANT, is a senior writer for ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine. He has been the sports correspondent for National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition Saturday since 2006 and worked at several newspapers, including the Boston Herald and the Washington Post. A Boston native, Bryant is the author of Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston; Juicing the Game: Drugs, Power, and the Fight for the Soul of Major League Baseball; The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron; and the three-book Legends series for middle-grade readers. Bryant was a 2016 National Magazine Award finalist for commentary.
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Footnotes
* The concept of emotional branding goes way back. In 1929, the American Tobacco Company gave cigarettes they called “Torches of Freedom” to women before New York City’s Easter Sunday Parade. The stunt promoted female empowerment—women’s rights activists supported it—and the number of female smokers more than tripled over the next 12 years.
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† Bob Costas, who hosts the pregame show for NBC’s Football Night in America, ripped these commercials in an interview with the New York Daily News, saying: “Yeah, that’s right, the first thing I think of when I hear about 25 percent to 30 percent, by the NFL’s own admission, of its players will have cognitive difficulties is ‘Football Is Family.’ ”
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* They were talking about C. J. Spiller, a perpetual disappointment for fantasy football owners who has already played for three different teams this year. The aliens can have him.
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