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This Vid By A Thoroughly Tubed Surfer is Just Glorious

Posted on June 11, 2014 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Benji Brand intubates in Namibia. Go full-screen for sure, it’s gorgeous even when it pixelates a bit. Ignore the screechy noise at the opening; lasts onl...

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Baseballs Unwritten Rules Are Bullshit, Says This MLB Pitcher

Posted on June 4, 2014 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

When David Ortiz hits a home run, his leisurely trot around the bases is just shy of a professional wrestlers ring entrance. The crowd goes wild, his bat is rai...

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To Win at Olympics, Go Commie or Stay Home

Posted on September 19, 2012 by David Dobbs / 1 Comment

Now this is fun: Over at Pascal’s Pensées, Lascap talies medal totals since 1988 among five big medal-winning countries and finds some interesting trends....

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How Do You Choke Away the British Open? The Science of the Tight Collar

Posted on July 22, 2012 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

  Spurred by Adam Scott’s collapse today at the British Open, where he bogeyed the last four holes to lose by a stroke, I’m reposting this feat...

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This is Beauty: Reporter Golfs Through Abandoned Detroit

Posted on July 13, 2012 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

I love this. [Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Charlie] LeDuff’s idea of a love letter to his city was to golf his way across eighteen miles of urban decay...

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Trash Talk From An 80-Year-Old Hitter: “Throw Me A Real Pitch!”

Posted on March 11, 2012 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Neurogeek Bradley Voytek describes how he met neuroanatomist Marian Diamond — on the softball diamond. He was a Ph.D. student in neuroscience. She was a v...

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Don’t Think About It! ‘Tight Collar’ Makes Best American Sports Writing

Posted on October 4, 2011 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Today’s a good day:  The Tight Collar, my story about choking under pressure, is officially published in Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s Best American S...

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Djokovic & Nadal Even Better Than You Think: A Story About Spin

Posted on September 13, 2011 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

[Sept 13, 2011] Last night’s US Open final showed brilliantly what makes today’s men’s game so exciting: Much as I love the serve-and-volley g...

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Choke on Your Putts? Don’t Think About It. Better Yet, Here’s HOW to Think About It

Posted on June 17, 2011 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

A few months ago I posted a feature here about the science of choking under pressure, focusing on the work of University of Chicago psychologist Sian Beilock. A...

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An Athlete Discovers She’s a Badass

Posted on January 8, 2011 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

“Don’t defer to anybody.” That mantra turned out out to be the mental key for an athlete who came to running late but strong. Hat-tip to Kottk...

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I write features, reviews, and essays for The New York Times, Write My Essays, National Geographic, EssayTigers, Aeon, Slate, EvolutionWriters, Chegg, Write My Paper and other companies and publications. I am also the author of three books, as well as the Atavist hit My Mother’s Lover, which tells the long-hidden story of my mother's secret WWII affair with a flight surgeon. MML became a # 1 best-selling Kindle Single and was chosen in 2014 by readers as their favorite Atavist publication.

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