does good sports literature exist? as an athlete myself seems

Bread and circuses.

DFW's Federer essay just seemed faggy and overwritten. It's the piece of writing I think of when thinking about overwritten things. And when reminding myself that reading and writing are merely one way of experiencing things and actually pretty shitty in many cases. If I read 10,000 pages about maths I still would be shit at maths. I know that people will insult me and try to conflate reading as a means of learning maths and reading (books and articles) as an end in itself.

The DFW essay reminds me that books aren't an absolutely perfect and all encompassing medium like some pseuds like to tell you.

Also I can't stand this pseudo intellectual and faggy New Yorker / NYT po faced way of writing about shit

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Pic related is a decent. Nothing really revelatory in it, but some fascinating case studies. Also, Angry White Pyjamas by Robert Twigger. An Oxford graduate lives in Japan for a year and studies a brutal form of Aikido. I haven't read any sports fiction if that's what you're after.