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• GOLF: THE SPORT THAT WILL HUMBLE YOU IN WAYS YOU DIDN'T KNOW WE

  by Richard Waters Mar 7
  Four hours of walking, six inches of grass, and a lifetime of chasing a feeling you touched once and can't get back Nobody warned you it would do this to you. You played your first round. Maybe you were terrible — probably you were terrible — but somewhere on that course, on one spec...

• HOCKEY: THE SPORT THAT HAPPENS TOO FAST FOR YOUR EYES AND TOO D

  by Richard Waters Mar 6
  Ice, blades, violence, and a six-ounce piece of rubber that moves at 100 miles per hour The puck disappears. Not sometimes. Not when you're distracted. Regularly. Routinely. You're watching a hockey game — really watching, leaning forward, invested — and the puck just ceases to exist...

• BASKETBALL: THE SPORT THAT GREW UP ON ASPHALT AND NEVER FORGOT

  by Richard Waters Mar 4
  Ten feet of air between you and everything you ever wanted Basketball was invented in a gymnasium in Massachusetts in 1891 by a Canadian named James Naismith who nailed a peach basket to a balcony railing and told thirteen guys to figure it out. He probably had no idea. He had no idea that what...

• TENNIS: YOU VERSUS THEM, NO TEAMMATES, NO EXCUSES, NOWHERE TO H

  by Richard Waters Mar 4
  A sport played in silence that screams louder than almost anything Tennis is the cruelest sport ever dressed up in white. Think about what we're actually asking these people to do. Walk out onto a court — alone, completely alone, no teammates, no huddles, no one to pick you up when it's go...

• BASEBALL: THE SLOW BURN SPORT IN A WORLD THAT FORGOT HOW TO WAI

  by Richard Waters Mar 3
  Three hours of nothing and everything, served with peanut shells on the floor Baseball will lose you if you let it. You'll glance at your phone for thirty seconds and miss the only thing that mattered in the entire inning. You'll step away for a hot dog and come back to a completely different ga...