Sport Literate

03/01/2025

In March, Sport Literate is celebrating 30 years of publication. Check out our website for plans for an anniversary issue (hopefullly a summertime pub), some new SL satire, and links to poetry and essays from our current issue. www.sportliterate.org

02/09/2024

Sport Literate's Super Bowl e-letter. Check out for a running book review, contest news, and poetry and essays.

07/12/2023

The books are in. Game: A Sport Literate Anthology features 25 of our favorite essays from our first 25 years (1995-2020).

08/08/2022

A "Hot Summer 2022" issue currently at the printer, two "social justice" contest winners, and an essay from our latest "Best American."
All in a quick-hitting e-letter from Sport Literate.

05/27/2022

Just a few days left to enter Sport Literate's "social justice contest." Two $500 winners. Enter your essay or poems by midnight, May 31.

https://sportliterate.org/2020/02/social-justice-contest/

04/15/2022

Some baseball musing (along with football) on Jackie Robinson Day 2022.

01/19/2022

For our first print issue of 2022, an anticipated summer offering, Sport Literate wants to hear from you. Really hear from you. We are awarding two $500 prizes — for the top selected poem and best essay — within the broad theme of “social justice.” We won’t be prescriptive beyond that, exc...

08/05/2021

Our friend, Rus Bradburd, a great basketball writer, shares a head’s up about a great documentary.

On iTunes now. https://dogwoof.org/ChiTownChi-Town follows Keifer Sykes on his meteoric rise from Marshall High School on Chicago’s West Side to his improbab...

06/22/2021

Our "Summer Renovation" e-letter...

02/03/2021

A Super Bowl preview of sorts.

12/01/2020

Our "25th Anniversary Issue" has hit the streets. Here's a taste...

“Although no one in the documentary says it, there seems to be a feeling that Southern Cal’s rout of Alabama was the shock that the University and a majority of the fans needed to support integration of the football program. But in fact, that same shock probably came the previous year when the T...

09/23/2020

A Sport Literate take on the slew of sports on the docket in September. Plus, the winner of our "sports short" contest and three noteworthy shorts worth your reading.

Is to watch Justin ginger locks Turner hit a walk-off intra-squad home run and feel deep despair, a premodern eclipse, as a visible caravan of cars queue in the panoramic Dodger Stadium parking lot cm makeshift testing site. Swish. Have some faith, Montaigne! This be no pimply-male-captain-of-the-p...