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June 2008

Geared Up

by Bill Reynolds

On the road to two-wheeled transcendence. One man’s love affair with his bicycle.


May 2008

Grounds To Pound

by Jan Dutkiewicz and Jeremy Keehn

Mixed martial arts fights for legitimacy


March 2008

Facemasking

by David N. Meyer

How the National Football League hides the violence and racial conflict of the game


October 2007

56*

by David Robbeson

Was Joe DiMaggio’s fifty-six-game hitting streak the greatest feat in all of sports or merely a product of its time?


February 2007

First on the Hill

by John Fry

The story of modern skiing owes much to Quebec’s Laurentians


January 2007

5, 6, Pickup Sticks

by Daniel Sanger

Hockey at its best is a cool, clear night, an outdoor rink, and a gaggle of strangers.


October 2006

Serve-and-Volley, Anyone? WalrusPrime Article

by Andrew Clark

Once the dominant style in tennis, rushing the net is now a vanishing art


February 2006

Dream Genes

by Arno Kopecky

If you can’t beat’em at the Olympics, try manipulating your dna


January 2006

To Skate, Perchance to Dream

by Michael Enright

Ottawa’s ribbon of ice, the Rideau Canal, beckons.


November 2005

Never on the Rocks

by Bob Ecker

An American oenophile’s guide to curling in Canada

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