The Sad Fate of the Sports Parent
What’s left when your kid abandons your dreams and retires from competition?
What’s left when your kid abandons your dreams and retires from competition?
Enough with Boomer nostalgia for shiny chrome and mad speed. Let’s celebrate old automobiles to suit our more sober, constrained America.
I didn’t quit on the American dream; it quit on me—and my generation. Now we need a different idea of the good life.
A tale of goons, no-show jobs, and a legendary minor-league franchise that helped land its owner in prison
What happened when Jann Wenner traded the hippie dream for pop-star friends and luxury
The coach as general. The players as gladiators. Ed Sabol and his son, Steve, have spent the past half century at NFL Films, inventing the tropes of modern football. Color, slow motion, ubiquitous cameras and microphones, the omniscient narrator invoking the language of war—the Sabols pioneered all of this and, in so doing, helped make football the national game.
Thirty years after he saved Chicago, the fabled Bears coach is everywhere—and nowhere.