Transition
Jan 2001
The playground, the Ivy League, the triangle offense, and how we dreamed up a “black basketball” and “white basketball.”
college basketball
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Grantland
Jun 2011
On witnessing an incredible junior college basketball game 23 years ago in North Dakota.
Sports Illustrated
Nov 1969
“My name is Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr., and my name is also Abdul Kareem, but I’ll explain about that much later.” A three-part personal essay on basketball, family, race and religion.
Sports Illustrated
Mar 2011
The story of the 2010 NCAA championship game between Duke and Butler, and what would have been greatest shot in college basketball history.
New York Times Magazine
Mar 2011
On Baylor’s freshman basketball star Perry Jones and how the new era of one-season careers has changed the landscape of college basketball.
Sports Illustrated
Mar 2011
A profile of the highest paid coach in college basketball. A pioneer of one-and-done recruiting, Calipari is also the only coach in NCAA history to have two runs to the Final Four removed from the record books for rules violations.
Sports Illustrated
Mar 2009
Mykal Riley’s last-second three-pointer kept thousands of fans out of the path of tornado. Just as remarkable? That Riley was there to shoot the three in the first place.
