Articles Tagged with #sports
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The Adolescent Scene
Dribbling in the Dark
What it’s like to be 14 in a new school, a new city away from home—and the wrong ethnicity in a divided country.
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Bruce Lee Tutorial in Quickness
How to move your hands very fast, from a bonus clip from I Am Bruce Lee, the 2012 documentary about the legendary martial arts master.
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The French, Opened
William Klein’s mesmerizing, rarely seen documentary The French goes behind the scenes at Rolland Garros in 1981.
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Men Read Horrific Tweets to Women Sports Journalists
Men read horrific tweets to women sports journalists. You are required to stay with it past the 45-second mark.
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Profiles
Powerlifter
Traditionally ostracized in the weight room, women who dare to lift weights discover strength they were previously denied.
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Dispatches
How to Drink in Qatar
The World Cup and its drunken fans are about to crash head-first into a repressive, restrictive society, where alcohol is illegal mostly everywhere.
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Phenomena Understood
The Economic Benefits of Alien Abduction
According to economists, if intelligent life elsewhere wants to kidnap earthlings, there must be a reason—and a business model.
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You Got Some Algae on Your Vans
A group of DC skaters finds abandoned backyard pools to drain and skate.
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Skate or Try
If a skater travels out of the city, far from urban parks and handrails, he does not cease to skate.
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Book People
All the Bikes We Cannot See
A record number of injuries and disqualifications in this year’s Tour de France is being blamed on addictions to contemporary fiction.
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Gallery
The Wild World
Photographs that find stillness in turbulence, moments close to reverence when almost nothing’s in control.
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Novelists in Restaurants Eating Food
Union Square Sports Bar
An adventure of food and drink in San Francisco naturally expands to include Ornette Coleman, Mexican wedding cookies, and a pet monkey admiring the ocean.