Prologue
Nine Triads
Lillian Morrison
Creating Context
Friendly Competitors • A Sporting Chance • Sports Hall of Fame • Concept Vocabulary
Cluster One: What Is Sport?
Thinking Skill: Defining
- The Defender (short story)
- Robert Lipsyte
- Watching Gymnasts (poem)
- Robert Francis
- Challenge (poem)
- Samuel Hazo
- Analysis of Baseball (poem)
- May Swenson
- In the Pocket (poem)
- James Dickey
- Calvinball (cartoon)
- Bill Watterson
- The Olympics in Ancient Greece (article)
- Richard D. Burns / Diana Falls
Cluster Two: What Does It Mean to Be an Athlete?
Thinking Skill: Analyzing
- This Girl Gets Her Kicks (essay)
- Rick Reilly
- White Men Can Jump (essay)
- Dan Cray
- Joan Benoit (poem)
- Rina Ferrarelli
- When the Boys Taught Their Coach (article)
- Richard Alan Nesbitt
- Unsportsmanlike Conduct (essay)
- Dave Barry
- Just Once (short story)
- Thomas J. Dygard
Cluster Three: Is Winning Everything?
Thinking Skill: Inferring
- Dying to Win (article)
- Merrell Noden
- Granny Ed and the Lewisville Raiders (short story)
- Rae Rainey
- The Noble Experiment (autobiography)
- Jackie Robinson, as told to Alfred Duckett
- Walking Away, While He Still Can (article)
- Ira Berkow
Cluster Four: Thinking on Your Own
Thinking Skill: Synthesizing
- Seen & Heard (interviews)
- Mary Motley Kalergis
- Jamez Lynch, age 17
- Cam Powell, age 16
- The Decline of Sport (essay)
- E. B. White
- A Quiet Wedding (short story)
- William Hazlett Upson
- Stealing for Girls (short story)
- Will Weaver
