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What It's Like To Pick Up Tennis In Your 50s
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Late To Tennis Practice

Gerald Marzorati began playing in his 50s. He got a book deal out of it—and a pretty good one-handed backhand.


Are the Olympics Broken Beyond Repair?
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Are the Olympics Broken Beyond Repair?

Dave Zirin looks at the state of the Games, and it's not pretty.


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June 4: Varsity Letters at Pacific Standard with Grant Wahl

Varsity Letters is back at a new location, Pacific Standard in Brooklyn, for a pre-World Cup event on Monday, June 4. Sports Illustrated senior writer Grant Wahl will discuss his new book, Masters of Modern Soccer: How the World's Best Play the Twenty-First-Century Game, and answer all your burning World Cup questions.

March 13: Sebastian Abbot

Varsity Letters is back at The Gallery at Le Poisson Rouge on Tuesday March 13. Among the speakers will be author Sebastian Abbot, reading from and discussing his new book, The Away Game: The Epic Search for Soccer's Next Superstars.

Jan. 30: Olympics Night

Varsity Letters is back at The Gallery at Le Poisson Rouge on Tuesday, January 30, with a night of Olympic sports. Thomas H. Murray, president emeritus of the bioethics institute The Hastings Center, will discuss his new book, Good Sport: Why Our Games Matter -- and How Doping Undermines Them. He'll be joined by Carla Correa and Meghan Louttit, who covered the Larry Nassar trial for the New York Times.

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