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• BOXING: THE SPORT THAT LOOKS YOU DEAD IN THE EYES AND DOESN'T B

  by Richard Waters 8 hours ago
  A love letter to the loneliest, most honest game ever invented There is no sport on earth that will tell you the truth about yourself faster than boxing. Not the comfortable truth. Not the truth you tell people at parties when they ask how things are going. The other kind. The kind that lives at...

• YOUR TEAM IS BREAKING YOUR HEART AND YOU WOULDN'T HAVE IT ANY O

  by Richard Waters 8 hours ago
  Notes from a lifetime of caring too much about things I cannot control My grandfather watched his team lose for 31 years straight before they finally won anything worth talking about. Thirty-one years. That's not fandom. That's a commitment. That's the kind of loyalty that would be considered un...

• SPORTS: THE BEAUTIFUL, STUPID, GLORIOUS MESS WE KEEP COMING BAC

  by Richard Waters Mar 1
  A love letter written with dirty hands and a busted lip Look. Nobody asked you to care this much. Nobody told you that you'd be standing in your kitchen at 2am, stress-eating cereal in your underwear, watching a guy you've never met try to dribble a basketball into a hoop. And yet here you are. H...