Fan Voices

An unorthodox love: Finding purpose and passion in hockey

Tina Nguyen
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To be a fan of a losing team, for a lifetime

Rewriting my baseball fan future at Con Ed Field

Can’t hurry love: An American in Spain chases World Cup dreams

Life as an LGBTQ+ soccer fan

Kate Lovell
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Pa loves soccer: Converting American soccer fans, one person at a time

Justin Meyer
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How the San Diego Wave finally made a Brit watch soccer

Geo Collins
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Thank you, Andrew Wiggins, for getting vaccinated

Dipti S. Barot
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Skating my way through race and class divides

Saffina Jinnah
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The life and times of a Red Sox hat

Morgan Kennedy
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I tried to make the Olympic Curling team and you should too

Dan Secatore
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Buffalo Bills and finding inspiration in a broken heart

Sareyes Kulkarni
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A 34-year-old lawyer finally realizes his dreams in professional hockey

Harrison Kass
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Zion Williamson and I have the same injury

M. M. Sang
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Discovering Croatian baseball helped me through a global pandemic

Daniel Yetman
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Growing up a Drew Bledsoe fan in a Tom Brady world

Michael Venutolo-Mantovani
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Living life in the shadow of the Cleveland Browns

Micah Wimmer
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How to make a baseball fan for $300 or less

Christine Harms
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Blind Passion: Loving a sport you can’t even see

Cameron Black
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The heartbreak of Red Sox fandom is a universal language

Alex Tzelnic
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Colin Kaepernick, consequences, and the culture: On the legacy of Black athletes

Langa C
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What we lose when we lose minor league baseball

Lela Moore
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Are baseball stadiums still a safe space for everyone?

Melissa Hart
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Syndication: The Columbus Dispatch

What’s in the cards: An Opening Day MLB tradition

Geoff Graser
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How the women in my family connected me to my Argentine heritage through soccer

Chiara Reynal Brown
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For a week at the end of 2020, ice dancing kept me alive

Jamie Beckenstein
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Running The System: Grinnell College and the power of positive pace

Keith Parsons
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A Raptors’ fan in crisis: Expecting more from our favorite teams

Nasir Husain
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