IT’S SUNDAY, YOU’VE had a fierce hard week — lookit, we know.
Don’t rush out the door just yet, treat yourself to a second cup of something hot and sit down with some of the best sportswriting the internet had to offer this week.
1. “Last week in the Melbourne Cricket Ground press box I was staggered to note, on the third morning of the Test and for the entire day thereafter, an accredited member of the media sitting in front of me tapping away at his company laptop, but tabbing between his match report and a constant stream of hardcore pornography.”
Russell Jackson laments the harmful blokiness surrounding sport, in The Guardian
2. ”My compulsive eating had little to do with hunger and was almost never enjoyable. Instead, it was like trying to chase a vague, indefinable comfort, some satisfaction that never arrived — or even could arrive. It was the fear of missing out, but for food and constantly.”
On his own blog, Bill Barnwell charts his journey from obesity to health.
3. ”A Gretzky of the granite. Ungrudgingly admired by seasoned dirtbags and muscular young rock rats, she is, even though still young, perhaps the first female climber whose accomplishments may transcend gender, and the first rock climber who could become a household name.”
For The New Yorker, Nick Paumgarten meets a 14-year-old rock-climbing prodigy.
4. “Some of Madrid’s players had a nickname for Benítez that mocked him for the way he tried to tell them what to do and how to kick a ball despite the fact he had never played professionally: the No 10, they called him. Now they have a real No 10, even if he did wear No5 when he played here…”
Sid Lowe was on the scene for The Guardian when Real Madrid introduced their iconic rookie manager.
