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The Best American Sports Writing 2016 - (Best American Series (R)) by Rick Telander & Glenn Stout (Paperback)

 The Best American Sports Writing 2016 - (Best American Series (R)) by  Rick Telander & Glenn Stout (Paperback)
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For more than twenty-five years, <i>The Best American Sports Writing </i>has curated the year's finest sports journalism. Continuing the tradition in a long line of notable guest editors is Rick Telander, acclaimed journalist, author, and champion of the written word<i>. </i>His choices are defined by one shared thread: effort, on the part of athletes and writers alike. The physical strength it takes to play professional hockey and football, or for a forty-two-year-old writer to learn how to dunk in six months. The mental and emotional toughness needed to turn around a losing team, or to speak out about a coach. The careful striving to make everything seem effortless. This edition encompasses it all. <p/><i>The Best American Sports Writing 2016 </i>includes Don Van Natta Jr. and Seth Wickersham, L. Jon Wertheim and Ken Rodriguez, Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru, Brett Popplewell, Alexandra Starr, Wright Thompson<i> and others</i> <p/>RICK TELANDER is a <i>Chicago Sun-Times</i> senior sports columnist and the Basketball Evangelist for <i>Slam</i> magazine. He has also written for <i>Sports Illustrated</i> and <i>ESPN: The Magazine, </i>and has been featured seven times in <i>The Best American Sports Writing. </i>He is the author of eight books, including <i>Heaven Is a Playground </i>and <i>From Red Ink to Roses.</i> <p/>GLENN STOUT, series editor of <i>The Best American Sports Writing </i>since its inception, is the author of <i>Young Woman and the Sea </i>and <i>Fenway 1912</i>.

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