The Boy They Couldn’t Kill. Sports Illustrated, September 17, 2012
JEANNE MARIE LASKAS
Guns ’R Us. GQ, September 2012
ARIEL LEVY
A Ring of One’s Own. The New Yorker, May 7, 2012
TOM LEY
Boom or Bust. Deadspin.com, December 10, 2012
GUY MARTIN
Horse Power. Garden & Gun, December 2012
J. BRADY MCCOLLOUGH
The Pride of Clairton. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, November 21, 2012
JOHN MCLAUGHLIN
In Chariots, They Ran. Runner’s World, February 2012
ELIZABETH MERRILL
Where Did It All Go Wrong? ESPN.com, December 12, 2012
MEGAN MICHELSON
Tunnel Vision. Outside, November 2012
DOUG MILLER
The Mudville Line. MLB.com, December 12, 2012
JASON NARK
Deer Dad. The Philadelphia Daily News, December 23, 2012
DANNY O’NEIL
Ryan David Leaf, Defendant. Seattle Times, April 8, 2012
JOSH PARROT
JEFF PASSAN
Long, Maddening Fall for Former No. 1. Yahoo.com, March 26, 2012
From Prospect to Priest. Yahoo.com, September 27, 2012
JOE NICK PATOSKI
Turnover! Texas Monthly, October 2012
RICK PAULAS
The Cup of Coffee Club. TheAwl.com, May 30, 2012
BEN PAYNTER
Perfectly Suited. Wired, August 2012
BARRY PETCHESKY
Where Would the NHL Be If Bain Capital Had Bought the Whole League in 2005? Deadspin.com, October 15, 2012
ALAN PRENDERGAST
Going to Extremes. Westword, August 2–8, 2012
ERIC PRISBELL
Transsexual Gabrielle Ludwig Returns to College Court. USA Today, December 5, 2012
SHANNON PROUDFOOT
Hell Frozen Over. Sportsnet, March 26, 2012
JON RONSON
Clear Eyes, Full Plate, Can’t Puke. GQ, November 2012
KRISTINA RUTHERFORD
“I’ve Got Nothing Left.” Sportsnet, June 4, 2012
ALBERT SAMAHA
Familiar Ring. Riverfront Times, February 23, 2012
ROBERT SANCHEZ
Golden Girl. 5280, June 2012
ELI SASLOW
A Trip to the Threshing Floor. ESPN: The Magazine, December 11, 2012
LEANDER SCHAERLAEKENS
Out of Bounds. SBNation.com/Longform, September 28, 2012
WHIT SHEPPARD
He Paid the Price. Richmond, September 2012
JESSE SIDLAUSKAS
Putting on My Old Cockfighting Shoes. Mayborn, July 2012
FRANK SOOS
Who’s on First. Sport Literate, Winter 2012
EVELYN SPENCE
Extremely Long and Incredibly Close. Bicycling, June 2012
SEBASTIAN STOCKMAN
The Problem with Sportswriting. TheMillions.com, August 6, 2012
JOHN JEREMIAH SULLIVAN
Venus and Serena Against the World. The New York Times Magazine, August 23, 2012
PATRICK SYMMES
The Beautiful Game. Outside, October 2012
MIKE TANIER
Faith and Football. Sportson Earth.com, November 1, 2012
RACHEL TOOR
MATT TULLIS
Feet of Clay, Heart of Iron. SBNation.com/Longform, October 17, 2012
KEVIN VAN VALKENBERG
Games of Chance. ESPN.com, December 19, 2012
GRANT WAHL
The World’s Team. Sports Illustrated, October 6, 2012
MICHAEL WEINREB
A Failed Experiment. Grantland.com, July 12, 2012
DAN WETZEL
Tom Brady in Postgame Daze ... Yahoo.com, February 6, 2012
SETH WICKERSHAM
Into the Wild. ESPN: The Magazine, May 28, 2012
MARK WINEGARDNER
One in a Million. ESPN: The Magazine, January 9, 2012
The Last Time They Met. ESPN: The Magazine, November 2012
MIKE WISE
Washington Wizards: An Embarrassment by Design. The Washington Post, January 9, 2012
About the Editor
J. R. MOEHRINGER, editor, won a Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for his feature writing. He is the author of the much-beloved memoir The Tender Bar and the best-selling historical novel Sutton, and was the collaborator on Andre Agassi’s Open: An Autobiography.