It’s been said that sports are “war, minus the shooting.” But beneath the lacquered hardwood and the ChemGrass manufactured turf, a menagerie of corruption teems–bribery, drugs, murder, dark money, and more. Since at least the days of Pheidippides, athletics have contested man against man in games and agons, and every hard fought victory’s mired by avarice, stained by blood.
Let’s raise an Olympic torch and don our laurel wreaths. We’ll toast the famous and the infamous, the champions and the disgraced, the fixers and the dealmakers who power play in skyboxes and bookie bars, setting every score. Draw a quick play and kick past the goal posts, but there is only one thing that matters in this arena: who is and isn’t–
JUICED
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ESSAYS
- CONCRETE NO RULES by Jake Hanrahan
- A TRADITION OF RUPTURE by Lari Ander
FICTION
- COACH by Pat Jameson
- GEAR by Alice O’Brea
- HOMECOMING by Chuck Strange
- KERROD’S BLUES by AW Donnelly
- LIL PUMP ON THE BOAT by Jacob Stovall
- TERROR ON PLUM ISLAND by Arbogast
POETRY
- “ANDREA PIRLO” by Max Thrax
- “THE YIPS” by Owen Paul Edwards
artwork by Robert Voyvodic