Lives spent aboard vessels either extravagant or on the hunt for adventure are spent in close quarters with technology and design rendered through painstakingly laborious processes that can be mastered only by the most obsessive among us -- those most addicted to beauty. Here are four stories about the...(READ MORE)
For a long time, boxing has been intimately tied to writing, the ferocity bound by technical rules of the first mirroring equal cross impulses in the second: Fearlessness, or at least the ability to proceed regardless, is fundamental to both prizefighting and any writing worth its salt. The following...(READ MORE)
Brooklyn-based illustrator Nathan Gelgud interprets Ron Darling's "The Complete Game: Reflections on Baseball and the Art of Pitching" for Biographile. (READ MORE)
With fitness in mind on the eve of the upcoming Olympics, author Rich Roll talks to us about transformation and his recently published book “Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World’s Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself.” (READ MORE)
Here's one way encourage summer reading in a kid who'd rather be running, swimming, jumping and generally going for the gold on the field, in the court and in the playground: Entice them with the biographies of Olympic athletes. The London summer games run from July 27 through August 12, so there's plenty...(READ MORE)
Laura Vikmanis is a dietician, a single mom, and – oh yeah – the NFL's oldest cheerleader. Laura Vikmanis is a gorgeous blonde professional cheerleader for the Cincinnati Bengals. She's appeared in the cheerleading squad's annual pin-up calendar, done TV and in-person appearances in front of adoring...(READ MORE)
Chapter 1 Before First Practice It was on the morning of October 15, 1966, that the final season officially began. For a month and a half, my teammates and I had gathered in the field house to lift weights, do isometric exercises, and scrimmage with each other. Right off, I could tell our sophomores were...(READ MORE)
I open my eyes and don’t know where I am or who I am. Not all that unusual -- I’ve spent half my life not knowing. Still, this feels different. This confusion is more frightening. More total. I look up. I’m lying on the floor beside the bed. I remember now. I moved from the [...](READ MORE)
