Football, like boxing, will never go away, just occupy a different role in the American zeitgeist. — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
As it turns out, just hanging out around athletes doesn't actually make one more fit. — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
Sports like sailing, rowing, and bobsled have long vexed spectators and television producers. — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
Increasingly, football fans are arguing that the game is bloated with too much down time. The officiating is clumsy. — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
To play 'Tetris' is to knowingly opt in to something that has no end and no way of winning. — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
Ultimately, the joy of sports is social and psychological, both in the ballpark and around a television on Super Bowl Sunday. — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
Sports fandom transcends gender, race, language, political preference, socioeconomic status, or any other way you can think of slicing this planet. — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
Historically, companies haven't hesitated to end their relationships with professional athletes amid scandals. — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
While the U.S. government is unlikely to ever limit the number of football games, plenty of parents are refusing to let their… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
Precisely at the moment when an athletic career is most on the line and fan perceptions of a Herculean, supra-human performance are… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
My parents wielded disposal cameras and Polaroids with the best of them, occasionally begging for at least one decent photo of my brother and… — Mary Pilon Copy Share
Endnotes, often confused with footnotes that live at the bottom of a page, is that lump of text at the end of the book,… — Mary Pilon Copy Share
As the U.S. prison population has surged over the decades, the legal profession's distaste for former inmates has become more conspicuous. And it isn't… — Mary Pilon Copy Share
As it turns out, just hanging out around athletes doesn't actually make one more fit. — Mary Pilon Copy Share
Generations of thinkers have made typewriters their frenemies, and long before there were Gmail inboxes, print correspondence stacked up, some hastily written and impulsive… — Mary Pilon Copy Share
I was a fly on the wall at Gawker Media during the heyday of this thing called blogging. — Mary Pilon Copy Share
Some communities are formed through schools, churches, workplaces. But much of how we learn about one another as a society comes from physically being… — Mary Pilon Copy Share
Using a typewriter, at times, feels more like playing piano than jotting down notes, a percussive exercise in expressing thought that is both tortuous… — Mary Pilon Copy Share
Competing in junior fencing requires lessons, equipment, and travel that may cost hundreds or even thousands of dollars a month, keeping talented athletes from… — Mary Pilon Copy Share
Precisely at the moment when an athletic career is most on the line and fan perceptions of a Herculean, supra-human performance are highest, an… — Mary Pilon Copy Share
As the issue of youth fitness - from obesity to proper exercise regimens - takes on more resonance in schools and communities across the… — Mary Pilon Copy Share
The greatest obstacle in 'Tetris' is time and one's own ability to navigate it - kind of like life itself. — Mary Pilon Copy Share
Long before social media made things like bib replication easier, banditing at major races was viewed as a brave act. Rebellious runners like John… — Mary Pilon Copy Share
Wall Street trading floors have long been seen as bastions of testosterone that rewarded, literally, those with sharp elbows who could throw a punch. — Mary Pilon Copy Share
