# essential-reading - Sunday 15 November, 2020
# Essential Reading
From The42
# Essential Reading
Plus, Tim Keown looks at the NFL’s most beloved player on its most disastrous team.
# essential-reading - Sunday 16 August, 2020
# Essential Reading
From The42
# Essential Reading
Plus, Jonathan Wilson on his parents, loss, memory and Lance Gibbs.
# essential-reading - Sunday 2 August, 2020
# Essential Reading
From The42
# Essential Reading
Plus, Anthony Daly revists the Offaly trilogy of ’98, the ‘sit-in’ and what haunts him most from a painful year.
# essential-reading - Sunday 10 November, 2019
# Essential Reading
From The42
# Essential Reading
Plus, the New Yorker’s Louisa Thomas on the ham-handed, money-driven mangling of Sports Illustrated and Deadspin.
# essential-reading - Sunday 8 September, 2019
# Essential Reading
From The42
# Essential Reading
Plus, a profile of USA Women’s star Rose Lavelle.
# essential-reading - Sunday 11 August, 2019
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From The42
# Essential Reading
Also featuring a fascinating piece on the unique craft of the hurley maker.
# essential-reading - Sunday 30 June, 2019
# Essential Reading
From The42
# Essential Reading
Plus, a piece on Megan Rapinoe’s greatest heartbreak – and hope.
# essential-reading - Wednesday 4 July, 2018
# Summer Reading
From The Daily Edge
# Summer Reading
Two Irish authors feature on her desert island list.
# essential-reading - Sunday 27 May, 2018
# Essential Reading
From The42
# Essential Reading
Remembering Niccolo Galli and more great reads from this week.
# essential-reading - Sunday 31 December, 2017
# Essential Reading
From The42
# Essential Reading
Featuring Wright Thompson, Marina Hyde, Paul Kimmage, Rory Smith and many more of the finest journalists out there.
# essential-reading - Tuesday 28 November, 2017
# Essential Reading
From The42
# Essential Reading
The book overcame stiff competition from five other nominees.
# essential-reading - Wednesday 25 October, 2017
# Essential Reading
From The42
# Essential Reading
The choices, which have been whittled down from a longlist of 16, also include Centaur, the memoir of jockey Declan Murphy.
# essential-reading - Thursday 21 September, 2017
# Essential Reading
From The42
# Essential Reading
Judy Murray’s book on life with her son Andy and a biography on the late Muhammad Ali are among the contenders.
# essential-reading - Sunday 13 August, 2017
# Essential Reading
From The42
# Essential Reading
Plus, an interview with Irish international Lindsay Peat and a piece on the legacy of the 2007 New England Patriots.
# essential-reading - Sunday 1 January, 2017
# Read The Game
From The42
# Read The Game
Plus Sue Ronan banned from street football and ‘Dear Football Gods, we need to talk’.
# essential-reading - Sunday 25 December, 2016
# Essential Reading
From The42
# Essential Reading
Plus, Paul Kimmage takes a unique look at some of the most celebrated figures in the world of Irish MMA.
# essential-reading - Thursday 22 December, 2016
# Essential Reading
From The42
# Essential Reading
Paul O’Connell, Joey Barton and John Kavanagh are among the big names to feature in our list.
# essential-reading - Sunday 7 August, 2016
# Essential Reading
From The42
# Essential Reading
Plus, how Kurt Angle won an Olympic gold medal ‘with a broken freakin’ neck’.
# essential-reading - Sunday 24 July, 2016
# Essential Reading
From The42
# Essential Reading
Plus, why the 1916 Philadelphia A’s might have been the worst team ever.
# essential-reading - Sunday 3 July, 2016
# Essential Reading
From The42
# Essential Reading
Also, Steven Gerrard on England and detailed look at the harrowing process of sex-testing female athletes.
# essential-reading - Sunday 12 June, 2016
# Essential Reading
From The42
# Essential Reading
Also, a tribute to the late Kimbo Slice and partying with Ronaldo in Bolivia at Copa America ’97.
# essential-reading - Sunday 14 February, 2016
# Essential Reading
From The42
# Essential Reading
Also, how Match of the Day has become relevant again and why Claudio Ranieri has been underestimated all these years.
# essential-reading - Monday 28 December, 2015
# Essential Reading
From The42
# Essential Reading
Also, ‘The Education of Alex Rodriguez,’ Kerry GAA’s lost years and parallells between Roy Keane and Bobby Moore.
# essential-reading - Sunday 20 December, 2015
# Essential Reading
From The42
# Essential Reading
Also, the unlikely link between Andy Lee and Anton Chekhov.
# essential-reading - Sunday 22 November, 2015
# Essential Reading
From The42
# Essential Reading
Also, why Fifa needs more women and the man whose football dreams were ended by concussion.
# essential-reading - Sunday 27 September, 2015
# Essential Reading
From The42
# Essential Reading
Plus, an insightful look at Romanian rugby and why bridge is not a sport.
# essential-reading - Sunday 2 August, 2015
# Essential Reading
From The42
# Essential Reading
Also, seriously injured jockey Robbie McNamara opens up about his ‘dark days’.
# essential-reading - Sunday 26 July, 2015
# Good Reads
From The42
# Good Reads
Grab a cuppa and settle in to catch up on some superb articles.
# essential-reading - Sunday 5 July, 2015
# Essential Reading
From The42
# Essential Reading
Also, men fighting bears, men fighting men, and NASCAR fighting the Confederate flag.
# essential-reading - Sunday 28 June, 2015
# Essential Reading
From The42
# Essential Reading
This week also features a 1980s arcade game and a look at basketball’s mysterious triangle offence.
# essential-reading - Sunday 15 March, 2015
# Essential Reading
From The42
# Essential Reading
Also featuring ‘The Unbearable Lightness of [Billy] Beane’ and a heartfelt tribute to Tony McCoy.
# essential-reading - Sunday 8 March, 2015
# Good Reads
From The42
# Good Reads
There are also superb pieces on a homeless former college footballer and how the All Blacks coach their players.
# essential-reading - Sunday 4 January, 2015
# Essential Reading
From The42
# Essential Reading
Also featuring Barcelona’s identity crisis under Luis Enrique and the baddest motherf***er on the planet.
# essential-reading - Sunday 28 December, 2014
# Essential Reading
From The42
# Essential Reading
Also featuring the weird world of footballing memorabilia.
# essential-reading - Sunday 21 December, 2014
# Essential Reading
From The42
# Essential Reading
Put the kettle on and relax with these fine articles.
# essential-reading - Sunday 14 September, 2014
# Essential Reading
From The42
# Essential Reading
Also, the divisive Joey Barton talks Immanuel Kant while a NBA curiosity is remembered.
# essential-reading - Sunday 7 September, 2014
# Well Read
From The42
# Well Read
Why would you go outside when there is so much good stuff you haven’t read yet.
# essential-reading - Sunday 31 August, 2014
# Best Sportswriting
From The42
# Best Sportswriting
Plus, a look inside the world of dodgy internet Premier League streams.
# essential-reading - Sunday 24 August, 2014
# Essential Reading
From The42
# Essential Reading
Also, how Ferguson’s high school American football team are coping amidst the chaos.
# essential-reading - Sunday 17 August, 2014
# Essential Reading
From The42
# Essential Reading
Also, Grantland discuss THAT game in Space Jam and Adam Hurrey looks ahead to the new PL season.
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