Lying in wait

"Thanks to profoundly deep reporting and riveting prose, the reader spirals downward right along with George O'Leary in his fall from grace as Notre Dame's head coach. In "Lying in Wait," Gary Smith renders his subject as the King Lear of the sports world with such pathos that even a reader with no interest in sports can feel his anguish. This is Smith, a master profiler, at the top of his game."

Winner, profile writing, American Society of Magazine Editors' Best American Magazine Writing 2003. (Gary Smith, Sports Illustrated)

Professional driver on closed course. Do not attempt.

'Ring Tossed: "A Visit to the Nurburgring -- once the world's most treacherous racetrack, now a pedal-to-the-metal public playground -- provides a crash course in German automania."

Finalist, leisure interests, American Society of Magazine Editors' Best American Magazine Writing 2002 (Steve Rushin, Sports Illustrated)

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