Good writing of 2014

I was about to add that!

 

Kevin Van Valkenburg named his top works of the year: https://storify.com/KVanValkenburg/lot-of-great-stuff-from-espn-this-year-here-are-so

Erik Malinowski did so, too: https://storify.com/erikmal/best-sports-reads-of-2014

 

I'll post it again: This is Kevin's best story of '14 -- and it damn well better be in BASW '15 or the book is a complete sham.

http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/sto...e-star-adam-muema-ditches-pro-day-nfl-combine

 

Why do none of these links appear to be active? This problem seems to have cropped up with the recent change of ownership of the site.

 

Wright Thompson will edit BASW 2015.

 

John Rosengren in SBNation, writing about Jack Trice, the African-American football player who was killed playing for Iowa State against Minnesota in 1923.

http://www.sbnation.com/longform/2014/11/25/7275681/jack-trice-iowa-state-football-profile

 

Bruce Schoenfeld in the New York Times Magazine:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/13/magazine/the-mystery-of-the-vanishing-screwball.html?_r=0

Incredibly informative about something that's been happening in plain sight -- and everyone missed it. Love stories like this.

 

Here's some of what Seth Wickersham wrote this year: https://storify.com/sethwickersham/some-2014-football-stories#publicize

 

Tommy Tomlinson named his five favorite stories: http://tommytomlinson.wordpress.com/2014/12/31/my-top-5-of-2014/.

As did Kevin Van Valkenburg: https://storify.com/KVanValkenburg/i-wrote-a-lot-about-football-this-year#publicize.

 

Not sports, but here are David Brooks's picks:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/26/opinion/david-brooks-the-sidney-awards-part-i.html

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/12/30/opinion/david-brooks-the-sidney-awards-part-2.html?referrer=

I enjoyed these two stories that he highlighted in particular:


http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120178/problem-international-development-and-plan-fix-it

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/01/quiet-german

 

Richard Deitsch names his 140 top non-SI stories from 2014: http://on.si.com/1769npD

 

That writer who was No. 141 really got shafted.