Category Archives: Features

The closing of the Wigwam (and the state of Indiana basketball)

Posted on 24 March 2012 by

[New York Times] In Sunday’s New York Times sports section, I’ve got a long feature on the closing of the Wigwam, the 8,996-seat arena in Anderson, Indiana, that ranks as the second largest high school gym in the world. Or ranked, rather: … Continue reading →

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A profile of Xavier’s Chris Mack

Posted on 1 March 2012 by

[Cincinnati Magazine] In the March issue of Cincinnati Magazine, I’ve got a long profile of Xavier head coach Chris Mack. It centers on the lead up to the Xavier-Gonzaga game on New Year’s Eve, and while we continued to tweak … Continue reading →

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The Bengals, Hamilton County, and the world’s worst stadium lease

Posted on 24 October 2011 by

[Cincinnati Magazine] Well, after a couple teasers — a miscellany of quotations from the county official who became a Bengals exec; an appreciation of Mike Brown as a “near-brilliant litigator” — my feature on the Bengals and their stadium lease … Continue reading →

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“I was always slightly less Foucauldian than I sounded”: A profile of Stephen Greenblatt

Posted on 2 October 2011 by

[The Boston Globe] In Sunday’s Boston Globe, in the Ideas section, I’ve got a profile of Harvard professor Stephen Greenblatt. In his new book The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, Greenblatt writes about the fifteenth century’s rediscovery of Lucretius and … Continue reading →

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Notes on the Johnstown Flood National Memorial (and on David McCullough)

Posted on 29 August 2011 by

[The New Republic] The New Republic‘s just put out a special 9/11 issue, and I’ve got a feature in it on the long struggle to build the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. I don’t have a lot more to … Continue reading →

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