'For Hemingway, sports offered the calmness found from what Sally Jenkins calls 'being yourself in the moment.' His writing would not have been as brilliant had he not been an athlete. It’s hard to imagine him being replaced by Chris Hayes.' -markgjudge
, sportswriter Sally Jenkins notes that “essential elements of athletic success include conditioning, practice, discipline, candor, culture, and learning from failure.” All of these things are also key to making a great journalist. Playing a sport makes you more interesting, open-minded, versatile, and creative, and thinking on your feet during a game or on a sailboat translates to thinking both with great focus and also outside the box when working on stories.
Reading Buckley’s essays, it become clear that the lessons he learned as a skier in Utah and sailor around the world were formative in who he was as a journalist. He dealt with danger and conflict calmly and with equipoise — and he also knew when to metaphorically punch an opponent in the nose. He wasis when Buckley sails the route that Christopher Columbus took to get to the New World.
This distinction, says Jenkins, is “critical for the rest of us [when] we think we're supposed to do something extraordinary. No. Do what you're best practiced at and what is most natural in the moment to you. Be yourself in the moment, and that will be good enough.”where Buckley’s 1992 essay about Columbus first appeared.
Abercrombie’s 2006 obituary concluded, “With his full beard, compact build, and thirst for adventure, Mr. Abercrombie was often likened to Ernest Hemingway. But from the mid-1950's to the early 1990's, his exploits in any given week made Hemingway's look like child's play.”
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