NBA Conference Finals with Dan LeBatard; Paul Shirley; Chico Carrasquel; Show me the Soccer; Janet Guthrie; Guitar, Anyone?; NBA Playoffs and More with Charlie Pierce; Roller Derby Divas

The challenges Janet Guthrie faced when she raced in the late ’70′s were numerous.

NBA Playoff Update; WNBA Season Preview; Surprised by the (White) Sox; Unlikeliest Draftee; 3 Nights in August; Girls of the Gridiron; NBA playoffs and More with Charlie Pierce; Climbing with Erik Weihenmayer

Readers may be surprised by how many decisions manager Tony LaRussa had to make during the three night games between his Cardinals and the Cubs a couple of Augusts ago, and by how often events conspired to render those decisions irrelevant.

On Monday, Malcolm Glazer, the owner of the National Football Leagues’ Tampa Bay Buccaneers, assumed control of Manchester United, one of the world’s most successful soccer teams. Fans of Man U. have expressed great dismay at this development, even on the eve of Manchester United’s FA cup final match against Arsenal on Saturday.

World Baseball Classic; Orioles on Top; A Room Without a View; NFL at Harvard; Lost and Found with Charlie Pierce; Capital Challenge

This book is really for people who enjoy drafting behind a writer who finds in fleeting images at the races clues to what we’ve become: a nation addicted to loud thrills and bright colors.

Our hunger for a symbol as our spirit, badly bent,
Craves homers to make up that lacking eight point eight percent.

NBA Playoffs Update; Kentucky Derby Picks with Jennie Rees; A Groom’s Life; A kinder, gentler golf course.; Luckiest Man; Drake Relays; Letters; Charlie Pierce; Cannonball One Lap of America

Jonathan Eig is less concerned with Gehrig the indomitable ballplayer than he is with Gehrig the idiosyncratic homebody.