// READING LIST
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The articles, books, podcasts and documentaries that shaped how we watch and write about sport. Every link goes straight to the source.
Essential reading
The New York Times
Roger Federer as Religious Experience
David Foster Wallace on Federer. The piece that reset what a tennis article could be.
Read it → ESPNGhosts of Mississippi
Wright Thompson on the 1962 Ole Miss riots and what a campus chooses to remember.
Read it → Sports IllustratedShadow of a Nation
Gary Smith on a young basketball player carrying the weight of the Crow Nation.
Read it →Books worth your time
Fever Pitch
Nick Hornby
The original obsessive-fan memoir, and still the best explanation of why we do this to ourselves.
More on this →Open
Andre Agassi
The rawest, most honest sports autobiography ever written.
More on this →The Boys of Summer
Roger Kahn
Baseball writing at its most human, decades before "long-form" was a genre.
More on this →A Season on the Brink
John Feinstein
Inside access done right: a portrait of Bob Knight that still holds up.
More on this →Bounce
Matthew Syed
The science of what actually makes champions, minus the mythology.
More on this →Listen & watch
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