The Best American Sports Writing 2016 (2016)

For more than twenty-five years <em>The Best American Sports Writing </em>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<em>. </em>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/><em>The Best American Sports Writing 2016 </em>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<em> and others</em> <p/>RICK TELANDER is a <em>Chicago Sun-Times</em> senior sports columnist and the Basketball Evangelist for <em>Slam</em> magazine. He has also written for <em>Sports Illustrated</em> and <em>ESPN: The Magazine </em>and has been featured seven times in <em>The Best American Sports Writing. </em>He is the author of eight books including <em>Heaven Is a Playground </em>and <em>From Red Ink to Roses.</em> <p/>GLENN STOUT series editor of <em>The Best American Sports Writing </em>since its inception is the author of <em>Young Woman and the Sea </em>and <em>Fenway 1912</em>.