Anyone like me, a general sports fan, love reading long articles about a certain subject, no matter what it may be? News and box scores and analysis bores, I want something in-depth and fascinating.
Just read a recent one on Grantland about basically minor-league tennis, the circuit you have to prove yourself on before moving to the informal AAA class of tennis, the challengers.
http://grantland.com/features/the-futures-is-bleak/
"Behind the scenes on the bottom rung of professional tennis"
Dudes making 300 bucks for winning a tournament and everything, it's that bad.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/06/magazine/06Soccer-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
and here's one of my all-time favorites about Ajax's academy, where they take small children and mold them into pro soccer players, and how brutal the process is for everyone involved.
post your favorites or noteworthy recent ones, let's get a good informative thread with good writing going
Just read a recent one on Grantland about basically minor-league tennis, the circuit you have to prove yourself on before moving to the informal AAA class of tennis, the challengers.
http://grantland.com/features/the-futures-is-bleak/
"Behind the scenes on the bottom rung of professional tennis"
Dudes making 300 bucks for winning a tournament and everything, it's that bad.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/06/magazine/06Soccer-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
and here's one of my all-time favorites about Ajax's academy, where they take small children and mold them into pro soccer players, and how brutal the process is for everyone involved.
post your favorites or noteworthy recent ones, let's get a good informative thread with good writing going
