Swimming
4:28.56 — The Clock You Cannot See From Mirpur4 minutes 28.56 seconds. I wrote the number on the top page of my notebook an...
4:28.56 and the 0.13-Second Ledger: What Yu Zidi's 400 IM Record Does Not Tell UsWhen the scoreboard flashed 4:28.56, I did not look at the time first. I look...
The Five-Million-Dollar Ceiling and Mirpur's Open PoolThree procedural votes landed in the US Senate on Monday — 74-24, 77-22, 70-2...
The Preliminary Injunction and the Fifth-Year Ledger: How Eligibility Became an Asset Class in NCAA SwimmingI opened a court filing late last August and did not start by writing a colum...
The Coach Outside the Pool, the Injury Inside: World Aquatics' Coach-Education Series and the Mirpur LedgerThe deck of the outdoor 50m pool at Mirpur turns slick enough to matter once...
Where Swimming Is a Franchise, and Where Swimming Is a Survival LedgerPlace first, person second. The 50-metre lanes at the Melbourne Sports and...
Singapore's 16:00.45 and Bangladesh's Zero: Two Pages of One LedgerHook Gan Ching Hwee touched the pad and the board above the pool lit up five...
2:06.10 — Yu Zidi's 200 IM at Thirteen, and the Arithmetic of Two ColumnsThe number comes up on the board: 2:06.10. Long course, 50-metre pool, women'...
