> The usual strategies of sportswriting depend on the writer and reader sharing a set of passions and references [...] but you almost certainly don’t know as mu

> The usual strategies of sportswriting depend on the writer and reader sharing a set of passions and references [...] but you almost certainly don’t know as much about juggling as you do about football or baseball. Nope, I knew more about juggling! The author only lost me at the end when it got into analogies with various names in basketball/tennis/golf that I was at most barely familiar with. But other than that, this is a great article. I realized midway through that I've actually seen Gatto's cirque act and didn't realize it was him at the time.