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Introduction / by Mary Pilon and Louisa Thomas -- The sporting house / by Charles Bock -- Yankees strike / by Bob Sullivan -- Banderillero / by Barry Newman -- An Athens odyssey skips the medal mark : sailing out of a square story / by Kevin Hall -- The peanut vendor and the curse / by Samuel Graham-Felsen -- That loser LeBron / by Ryan O'Hanlon -- Two white kids from New York kicking ass / by Brian Platzer -- Too lucky in love / by Joshua Prager -- If you can't beat 'em / by Louisa Hall -- The great Wimbledon FC heist / by Ryan Bailey -- The 1908 Olympic marathon / by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- Requiem for the Ivory Coast : an anatomy of Greece's last-minute penalty / by Rowan Ricardo Phillips -- The "Dewey defeats Truman" of sports / by James Andrew Miller -- Chasing Ashton Eaton : an unintended pursuit of the world's greatest athlete that no one has heard of / by Jeremy Taiwo, as told to Stefanie Loh -- Galiyeva-ed / by Carla Correa -- The Kyrgios enigma / by Louisa Thomas -- Tomato can blues / by Mary Pilon -- Washington Generals win! / by Matt Nissenbaum -- The guy wearing a hat / by Andrew Lehren -- Losing on purpose / by Mike Pesca -- Larry and the ball / by Abby Ellin -- The loser / by Gay Talese
"Twenty-two notable writers-including Bob Sullivan, Abby Ellin, Mike Pesca, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Louisa Hall, and Gay Talese-examine the untold stories of the losers, and in doing so reveal something raw and significant about what it means to be human"--