The season's on the line, the locker room has opinions, and the one person who's off-limits is the one who won't leave your head. Sports romance runs on drive — athletes who give everything to the game and don't know how to give the same to a person, rivalries that turn into something else, the pressure of a crowd watching you fall. It's competitive, physical, and surprisingly tender when the armor comes off. For the same young, high-feeling energy, new adult romance is a close cousin, and contemporary romance carries the after-the-final-whistle stories.
