Allen St. John

Allen St. John has written about sports for The Wall Street Journal, The Village Voice, Rolling Stone, and The New York Times Magazine. He is the author, with Ainissa Ramirez, of Newton's Football: The Science Behind America's Game, to be published by Ballantine Books in November.

Iditarod

Jamaica's Amazing Dogsled Team

The Iditarod is one of the most rigorous, cold-weather races in the world. So how did Newton Marshall, a resident of Jamaica, end up in the competition?

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Foul

A-Rod the Scapegoat

Allen St. John on how the third baseman fell victim to the MLB’s cronyism.

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Marvin Miller, R.I.P.

The Man Who Freed the Ballplayers

That Miller isn’t in baseball’s Hall of Fame is the kind of inexplicable decision that diminishes not the man, but the institution, writes Allen St. John.

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Shocking Video

IndyCar Driver’s Final Moments

The live feed of Dan Wheldon’s fatal crash was horrific enough. Then came the high-definition replays.

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The U.S. Open’s Watergate

Players were right about the U.S. Open’s dangerous rain game, Allen St. John argues.

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