Amy Bass

Living near the epicenter of the Covid-19 outbreak, migrating all of my classes into online curriculum for remote learning, and trying to wrap my head around...

I love Election Day. I always have. To be able to vote, understanding what so many people have done before me to make sure I can and to make sure others ca...

Abdikadir Negeye’s story does a lot of work in ONE GOAL. Unlike so many of the players on the soccer team at the center of the book, he remembers fleeing Som...

When I found myself in Bermuda during the island's Cup Match holiday -- a national holiday in which the entire country shuts down for Emancipation Day (obser...

I haven't written in verse in a long time -- I am mad crazy in love with poetry, but I left it behind long ago for non-fiction. I read poetry a lot, with we...

Three years ago, I had split loyalties at my college reunion. I was in the middle of researching and writing ONE GOAL, so I was spending a lot of time in Lew...

I believe in the Church of Baseball. I've tried all the major religions, and most of the minor ones. I've worshipped Buddha, Allah, Brahma, Vishnu, Siva, tre...

The last days of February saw the paperback publication of ONE GOAL and with it, a fun social media giveaway (Congrats, Bri!) and a wonderful series of event...

Just about a year ago, I had the thrill of doing a "Quaz" with New York Times bestselling author Jeff Pearlman (whose Football for a Buck is extraordinary, i...

I saved Michelle Obama's Becoming for my trip to Maine to take part in Lewiston's "InspirED" professional development day for educators. I knew I wouldn't b...

I kind of dig year end lists – best books, best films, best sports moments (love those highlight reels!), best photographs, and so on. So now that all of the...

At the Boston Book Festival this past fall, where I had the joy of sitting in a large venue talking with Howard Bryant, Etan Thomas, and Bill Littlefield abo...

On Wednesday, my nephew's high school soccer career ended. I've written about Max and soccer before -- indeed, one of my most popular blog posts was about h...

...and we’re just living in it. The scope of the Lewiston High School Blue Devils never ceases to amaze me. Over the course of the last several days, the soc...

Unlike me, my daughter only knows the Boston Red Sox to be a powerhouse. Just 11, she's always seen them as contenders, winners. Last night was no differen...

That the traditional gift for a 50th anniversary is gold is fitting, because that is exactly what Tommie Smith got on October 16, 1968. The first sprinter to...

The question I get asked perhaps most of all: where are they now? Where are the players, the coaches, and the families of ONE GOAL? While the answers vary...

I first picked up a copy of Maria Semple's Where'd You Go, Bernadette? because my sister told me to. She picked it up because John Green told her to. He ha...

With World Cup action going full throttle (I think MEXICO v. GERMANY took years off my life, not to mention ICELAND ICELAND ICELAND), I wanted to take a few ...

Putting together a book tour is a crazy thing. It's a combination of who you know, where your public relations folks want to send you, and who invites you t...