The year's best sports writing 2023

Stone skipping is a lost art, Kurt Steiner wants the world to find it / Sean Williams (from "Outside") --

A half century of high kicks and hot pants / Sarah Hepola (from "Texas monthly") --

The world's cornhole elite, chasing that one perfect toss / Ashley Fetters Maloy (from "The Washington Post") --

Alone at the edge of the world / Cassidy Randall (from "The atavist magazine") --

Serena Williams refused to bend, she bent tennis instead / Lex Pryor (from "The ringer") --

A new bat, old friends, and timeless magic as Cardinal's Albert Pujols soars to 700 / Derrick Goold (from "The St. Louis dispatch") --

Does my son know you? / Jonathan Tjarks (from "The ringer") --

The team history must not forget : Ukrainian Soccer's fight to carry on / Wright Thompson (from ESPN) --

10 eye surgeries by age 10 : how Julio Urias beat the odds to become the Dodgers' ace / Jorge Castillo (from the "Los Angeles times") --

One night in London : allegations of sexual assault and a reckoning for Hockey Canada / Katie Strang, Dan Robson, and Ian Mendes (from The athletic) --

World Cup villain Luis Suárez won't get taste of knockout stage after rematch with Ghana goes sour / Bruce Arthur (from the "Toronto star") --

On a quiet lake in rustic Minnesota, Stanford coaching icon Tara VanDerveer runs it back one more time / Chantel Jennings (from The Athletic) --

"She made us happy" : the all-star dreams of Uvalde's biggest José Altuve fan / Roberto José Andrade Franco (from ESPN) --

A legacy of exclusion / Jerry Brewer (from "The Washington post") --

The keeper / Juliet Macur (from "The New York times") --

On punches / Hamilton Nolan (from Defector) --

Untold stories of Harvey Updyke's last confessions... and the plot to kill Auburn's iconic oak trees / Bennett Durando (from the "Montgomery advertiser") --

King of the hill / Jana Meisenholder (from "The atavist magazine" --

The Phillies' Andrew Bellatti made a fatal mistake as a teen, a tale of remarkable forgiveness followed / Alex Coffey (from the "Philadelphia inquirer") --

The pain may never fade for Delaware State's players : I've been there, too / Kurt Streeter (from "The New York times") --

After surviving a high school shooting, he was "An Empty shell. No emotion." Now What? / Michael Rosenberg (from "Sports illustrated") --

The secret MVP of sports? The port-a-potty / Ryan Hockensmith (from ESPN) --

How the Texans and a spa enabled Deshaun Watson's troubling behavior / Jenny Vrentas (from "The New York times") --

Remembering Roger Angell, hall of famer / David Remnick (from "The New Yorker") --

The Qatar chronicles, part I / Grant Wahl (from "Futból with Grant Wahl") --

Advisory board --

Notable sports writing of 2022.