One of sports journalism's great ironies is that covering an Olympics can be wildly unhealthy. NBC shows athletes in peak health performing on the ice and snow, but not the haggard reporters subsisting for three weeks on stadium starches, cheap… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
As it turns out, just hanging out around athletes doesn't actually make one more fit. — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
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 Image
I was a fly on the wall at Gawker Media during the heyday of this thing called blogging. — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
