Matt Crossman

2 weeks ago | midwestliving.com | Matt Crossman

More than 75 miles of the Niobrara are designated a National Scenic River. Photo: NiCK MCMAHAN Their names are Mary and Sue. I blame them for blowing up my Quest for Quiet. They sat there in lawn chairs at their campsite, all friendly and gregarious and such, laughing and carrying on so loudly I could hear them 100 yards away as I cooked dinner and watched the Niobrara River flow by from my right to my left. I ached to join them, to find out what in the world was so funny.

2 weeks ago | missourilife.com | Matt Crossman

How the St. Louis Great Rivers Greenway cultivates connections. I pedaled through the dark gray of a summer morning. A breeze tickled my arms. The dull roar of traffic followed me as I crossed a bridge and followed a cloverleaf under it to join the greenway as it entered a wooded park. After I rode under the bridge but before I entered the woods, I enjoyed 100 yards of silence. Then the screech of bugs turned overpowering. I was smack dab in the middle of suburban St. Louis, but it felt remote.

1 month ago | westernhorseman.com | Matt Crossman

The crowd rose in anticipation, cheering louder with each buck, spin and kick. When the 8-second buzzer sounded and John Crimber dismounted from Whiskey Trip, he landed in the soft dirt—and cemented himself as the No. 1 bull rider in the world. His big-time ride in a big-time moment helped give him his second win of the young PBR season, and everybody in the Enterprise Center in St. Louis screamed in delight. Well, almost everybody. Not Allan Jordan. He had work to do.

2 months ago | msn.com | Matt Crossman

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2 months ago | nascar.com | Matt Crossman

The first thing you need to know about the Daytona 500 trophy is that it is heavy, as in, it weighs a lot. Like, really heavy, like, I don’t care how strong you are, you would not want to lift that thing over your head on live TV, especially not after racing 500 grueling miles on the high banks of Daytona International Speedway. The second thing you need to know about the Daytona 500 trophy is that it is heavy, as in, the pursuit of it weighs on drivers, consumes them, eats up their insides.