Victory Journal, Issue 20 – Home and Away

Victory Journal is the new refuge of the true sportsman. Unmoved by statistical analysis and provincial opinions, Victory is concerned with the eternal glories and ignominies of players and pursuits the world over. From sumo wrestling to nautical jousting, 80s icons to Olympic hopefuls, Victory unearths the sublime joys of the sporting life through reportage and oral history, photography and illustration. Calling on an elite roster of like-minded contributors, Victory provides a forum for work that is unapologetically enthusiastic and uncompromisingly personal. It speaks to an audience that like its architects can distinguish the enduring from the fleeting and is ruled, above all, by an irrepressible curiosity.

In this issue:

Victory Journal’s landmark 20th issue “Home and Away” approaches collision and spectacle through the lenses of memory of interpretation. We celebrate the maestro Neil Leifer from the hot lights on Ali v. Patterson to the cool control of Carl Lewis mid-air. Experience close encounters with Eto’o and Drogba at the 2008 African Cup of Nations, football in the salted earth of Death Valley, passinho empress Celly IDD in Rio, Yokozuna Teronofuji alone at the top, Lewis Hamilton defying the rules, pack dogs on the Iowa ice, drag racing, wingwalking, water polo, baseball manga, Scottish misconduct and redemption, and yes, by popular demand, rollerblading. From the canvases of Chase Hall and Nikkolos Mohammed, to Kevin Huizenga’s graphic resurrection of the cutthroat world of ’80s semi-pro softball—it’s not only where we turn our gaze, but what we bring with us when we look, and all the reverberations in between.