Ex-Ivy Leaguer and NFL-er Jeff Hatch spent years telling audiences of his triumph over opioid addiction, to great acclaim. Then as the rehab center he worked at drew national attention, a tortuous backstory of cops, dealers and deception came to light.
Carried away by love—for risk and for each other—two of the world’s best freedivers went to the limits of their sport. Only one came back.
The curious rise and spectacular crash of the Alliance of American Football, a new league that went under in just eight weeks.
The former NBA player is forever linked to the murder of his girlfriend.
At age 17, Bonnie Richardson won the Texas state track team championship all by herself. Then she did it again.
A profile of a previously unknown rookie pitcher for the Mets who dropped out of Harvard, made a spiritual quest to Tibet, and somewhere along the line figured out how to throw a baseball much, much faster than anyone else on Earth.
On the start of the high school football season in Odessa, Texas. An adaptation published alongside the release of Bissinger’s 1990 book of the same name, which led to the movie and the show.
The inspiring life and mysterious death of NBA player Bison Dele.
Eighteen years ago, NFL wide receiver Rae Carruth conspired to kill the woman carrying his child. The woman, Cherica Adams, died. The child, Chancellor Lee Adams, did not.
How prison changed the former pro scout.
The life and death of the racehorse Secretariat.
Five years after they leave the league, 60 percent of NBA players have nothing left. In the NFL, it’s closer to 80 percent after just two years. On the economics of professional sports.
How a rugby legend came out.
The complicated life and death of Hideki Irabu, a pitcher who was supposed to become a Yankee legend and found heartache instead.
Donald Trump’s relationship with golf has never been more complicated.
The prison life of O.J. Simpson.
In 1993, his rookie season, more than 1,700 boys were named after Shaquille O’Neal. Now they’ve grown up.
On being—and playing for—Lady Vols basketball coach Pat Summitt.
“Robert Victor Sullivan, whom you’ve surely never heard of, was the toughest coach of them all. He was so tough he had to have two tough nicknames, Bull and Cyclone, and his name was usually recorded this way: coach Bob “Bull” “Cyclone” Sullivan or coach Bob (Bull) (Cyclone) Sullivan. Also, at times he was known as Big Bob or Shotgun. He was the most unique of men, and yet he remains utterly representative of a time that has vanished, from the gridiron and from these United States.”
Flashbacks from the life of Aaron Hernandez from the person who knew him best, his older brother Jonathan.
What former NBA coach Monty Williams learned in the wake of losing his wife.
He’s got 50,000 Instagram followers. He’s been offered several college scholarships. He just played his first high school basketball game.
When Randy Lanier sped to Rookie of the Year honors at the 1986 Indianapolis 500, few knew his racing credentials, let alone his status as one of the nation’s most prolific drug runners, smuggling in tons of marijuana when he wasn’t on the track. Now, after 27 years in prison, Lanier is looking to the road ahead.
He was supposed to be the Dallas Cowboys’ star running back. Instead, Joseph Randle is in prison.
A profile of the NBA sideline reporter as he battled cancer.
