Go Long earns three Top 10 APSE honors
The Associated Press Sports Editors recognized your home for longform this week. Thanks to everyone who makes this site go.
Good morning, readers! Exciting news to pass along here. Go Long was again recognized amongst the nation’s best in the Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE) writing contest, earning Top 10 finishes in three different categories — Long Feature, Explanatory and Columns.
Winners are announced at a later date. Years past, Go Long took first, second and third place in Long Feature.
We compete in the C category with distinguished publications from around the country, including the Lincoln Journal Star, Wisconsin State Journal, Lexington Herald-Journal, The Record (N.J.), Tallahassee Democrat, Florida Times-Union and Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
Greatly appreciate you all for supporting our longform approach, six years strong. The goal is pursue stories worth your valuable time. Go Long is fueled 100 percent by our readers.
Stories up for hardware this year are linked below if you’d like to check them out.
Thanks, all.
Long Feature:
Jordan Poyer's Last Stand
ORCHARD PARK, NY — Spend two hours with Jordan Poyer in such tranquility and you’re overwhelmed with the urge to book a trip to Costa Rica to sip ayahuasca. Or give holotropic breathwork a try. Or meet the chief of the indigenous Yawanawá in Brazil. But be careful. We can’t wander deep into the forest because —
Explanatory:
PATRIOT REIGN? How Mike Vrabel and Drake Maye can restart a dynasty of their own
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — The showers were a pigsty. A scene straight out of a college frat house. His first spring on the job, Mike Vrabel noticed that players were leaving washcloths all over the shower floors and refused to let this slide.
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Congratulations, Tyler!