Margit’s Note: We’ve Got Game

By Margit Detweiler

Ah, gym class.

The girl driving down the court for the reverse layup. The girl smoking clove cigarettes behind the bleachers.

You might have been one or the other, or a combination of both. We have a love/hate relationship with sports, after all. We love to run, we hate to run, we love the game, we’d rather be reading a book.

But thank god we have the option. Here at TueNight HQ we’ve been talking a lot about Title IX — the landmark civil rights law that allowed for (among other things) girls to get a fair shake in athletics. Enacted in 1972, it’s about as old as we are. And many of us — and our children, nieces, sisters — have directly benefitted from it.

So this week we’re looking at the subject of Sport, a word that connotes frivolity and leisure as much as it does competition. We like to think we’re good sports.

• Bethanne Patrick gives us two books that offer what it takes to win in Front to Backlist.
• We have two stories about running: One from Jody Jones who can’t give it up; one from Amy Barr who can’t get it started.
• Susan Linney gets you dressed up with 5 pieces of non-workout-looking workout wear.
• Diane Otter remembers her most heroic sports moment (in 4th grade).
• We bring back one of our favorite sports stories — Shelly Rabuse shares her escapades as a late-blooming roller girl.
• And the TueNight contributors proudly share their greatest sports #FAILS.

Lace up, my friends.

Love,

Margit