Michael P. Lombardo and Robert O. Deaner (GVSU): You Can't Teach Speed: Sprinters Falsify the Deliberate Practice Model of Expertise. Spare me the drab uniformity of sport: People who wear replica jerseys with the names of star players on the back strike me as new age versions of Walter Mitty. The nation's most holy institution: Dario Bretin on football and the construction of Croatian national identity. For Mariano Rivera, 19 seasons, 0 hits: The Yankees closer could finish his career with the most games played without a hit. Marc Tracy reviews Fantasy Life: The Outrageous, Uplifting, and Heartbreaking World of Fantasy Sports from the Guy Who's Lived It by Matthew Berry. A villain’s guide to football: Football clubs can easily be used as stealing machines — here is an instruction manual (and more). Game theory and the athlete’s dilemma: Sportsmen who take drugs may be prisoners of a different game. Darryl Strawberry goes public as ordained minister; no longer interested in baseball past. John Charles Bradbury reviews The Baseball Trust: A History of Baseball’s Antitrust Exemption by Stuart Banner. Adam Minter on why Chinese hate their men’s soccer team. Alison Tahmizian Meuse on kicking soccer balls while militias shoot Kalashnikovs.
