As it turns out, just hanging out around athletes doesn't actually make one more fit. — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
Because sports are a religion, it's difficult to imagine a world without the Olympics, and to be sure, they have given us… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
Sports like sailing, rowing, and bobsled have long vexed spectators and television producers. — 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
VR could, in theory, connect sports fans in different geographical locations so they could watch a game together. Instead of a group… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
Women's combat sports have been on a good run in the United States. Claressa Shields won a gold medal in women's boxing… — 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
For years, women in India were largely discouraged from participating in high-level sports - and, unless the women were wealthy, good facilities… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
One of sports journalism's great ironies is that covering an Olympics can be wildly unhealthy. NBC shows athletes in peak health performing… — 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… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
With a smartphone in tow and a playlist humming, a runner may miss the crunch of leaves underfoot, the enthusiastic cheers of… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
Something amazing happens when you tell people you write about sports for a living. You begin to feel like you're in a… — 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
