Among all the men and women who have written about professional football, few made a mark like Paul Zimmerman. Fans from the 1970s to the 2000s learned more about the NFL through reading Zimmerman, ...

60 years ago, the pro football game was regarded as disreputable by those who regarded it at all. The collections contains those stories, but also pieces about the incredible heights and deep lows of ...

“And so I resolved to go to the stadium.” Gabriel García Márquez loved starting his stories like this, with a sense of time always in motion. Here in his 1983 work, “The Oath” — neither purely fiction ...

Bayonne restaurant goes all-in for World Cup with themed experience and specials ...

Football, with its passion, drama and larger-than-life characters, has all the elements for a good literary genre. Boris Roessler/EPA A great football novel is like a perfectly executed bicycle-kick ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

While reading one of my favorite weekly football recaps, Stewart Mandel’s College Football Overtime, earlier this season, I was struck by a telling quote in one Mandel’s responses to a letter about ...

Were there to be a playoff pitting the literatures of the various sports against each other, baseball would trump boxing, and either would bounce football into the offseason. I find this ironic, given ...

Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/6393994/6395558" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Great ...