Bob Fishman Is Ahead of the Game
From the NFL to the Final Four, the sports broadcasting legend has called the shots for some of the most thrilling sports moments of the past four decades By 9 am on a steamy Florida morning in September, tour buses have already begun unloading football fans outside Hard Rock Stadium. Nearby tailgaters begin setting up … Continue reading Bob Fishman Is Ahead of the Game
Little Mac: America’s First Great Marathoner
The Boston Athletic Association’s (B.A.A.) Tom Burke called out each entrant’s name. Hamilton Gray, representing the St. George Athletic Club of New York, had won a national 10-mile championship. In Harvard’s crimson was medical student and star miler Richard Grant, the local favorite. And wearing the dark blue singlet and baggy shorts of New York’s … Continue reading Little Mac: America’s First Great Marathoner
The Seekers
Three Experts Reflect on What Nature Means to Them Take a step outdoors. What do you see? Hear? Feel? What do you seek by taking that next step? These simple questions can have complex answers. Nature means many things to many people—and many things for the same person. It can satisfy our curiosity and spirituality, … Continue reading The Seekers
Outdoor Dining
Foraging with Russ Cohen Three large black walnut trees stand in a perfect line, parallel to the side of a home in Wenham, Mass. An old rope swing dangles from a lofty branch. The owner says her kids sometimes bounce on the swing to dislodge walnuts from high above. Hundreds of the nuts litter the … Continue reading Outdoor Dining
One of the Team
Dogsledding in the Maine Wilderness I’m wary of big dogs, especially those that look like wolves. So when Stephen Madera asks me to help Teddy, a 50-pound Siberian husky, get down from the kennel on the back of his truck, I’m nervous. “He might like to use your shoulder,” Madera says. I hook a hand … Continue reading One of the Team
Evan Jager’s Big Leap
Evan Jager glances up at the video board with about a quarter mile remaining. He’s leading the fast heat of the mile at the Husky Classic in Seattle, and he can see a string of runners shooting off the turn behind him. Grimaces have crept over their faces in the last lap. His face, however, … Continue reading Evan Jager’s Big Leap
The Professional
Lauren Fleshman Finds Herself in Oregon A few wisps of dirty blond hair and a primal “OOOOOOW!” emerge from inside Lauren Fleshman’s hood. She holds her black sweatshirt above her navel to keep it dry and lowers her legs into the Willamette River’s frigid current. It’s a cold Friday morning in mid-December. She soaks here … Continue reading The Professional
Beyond the Forest
Tom Wessels teaches us about much more than trees Rain drips through the canopy of pine needles and yellowing sumac and bounces off the brim of Tom Wessels’s green felt hat. He’s standing on a narrow, leaf-strewn trail in Keene, N.H., declaring the pile of rocks at his feet to be the eighth wonder of … Continue reading Beyond the Forest
Roads Less Traveled
A Mid-Atlantic Bike Tour I’d expected a day of uninterrupted, flat pedaling along the Delaware River. But small nuisances that don’t show on a map—that you wouldn’t even notice in a car—mounted. A bit of flood damage. Road construction. Angry geese. River Road wasn’t flat and meandering as I’d imagined, but Hill Road lived up … Continue reading Roads Less Traveled
Marc Chalufour 