Articles
Resources:
OUTSIDE BOOK REPORT ACTIVITY
ADOPT A TEAM (NCAA TOURNAMENT) research project
- Peter King's MMQB
- essay assignment on transgender athletes
- Awesome Rushin article on sports bars and Covid
- PODCAST activity
- two person research activity
- MICHAEL JORDAN article by Thompson then HOF speech
- Should transgender athletes compete without restrictions
- A DO WHATEVER YOU WANT activity student led
- Pat Tillman assignment and HERE is a three activity lead in to it
- ON THE CLOCK class activity
- PERSUASIVE ESSAY COOL ACTIVITY
- Great article on CTE
- Great Jackie McMullen piece on how sports can change places in the world
- Research assignment
- JOHN WOODEN assignment
- PLAYERS' TRIBUNE ASSIGNMENT
- Things aren't what they always appear to be. What can we learn from this tragedy?
- Terrific Steve Rushin Piece
- Article: Dean Smith's Becoming
- Dan Gable Article by Wright Thompson
- Dan Gable's Only Loss(Pick up at 17:14)
- Full Clip of Dan Gable Loss
- Wright Thompson Masterpiece: Texas Football
- Wright Thompson New Orleans Ten Years Later (do research of immediate aftermath first)
- ESPN 30 for 30: Marcus Dupree
- Link to the best sports writing of the year 2015 and assignment HERE
- FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS FOLLOW UP. FIRST WATCH THE MOVIE, THEN READ AFTER FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS, AND THEN THIS ARTICLE
- Look at John Updike's New Yorker story "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu" and look at historical research and Williams' life
- Assignment involving The Players' Tribune HERE
- Football player turned mass murderer?
- Baseball player turned hit man?
- The murder of Will Smith
After watching Secretariat read this amazing longform piece HERE
FINAL HERE
Assignment:
- Single Page of One day of Sports that equal a whole week of Highlights(Write a unique page on one day of sports that would cover a week's highlights)