Going the Distance (and Beyond) to Catch Marathon Cheaters
An amateur sleuth tracks runners who cheat. But how far should he go?
An amateur sleuth tracks runners who cheat. But how far should he go?
Gordy Megroz Wired Feb 2020 15min Permalink
How an economic boom and deep gender inequality have created a new industry.
Jiayang Fan New Yorker Jun 2017 25min Permalink
Roger Goodell, the Patriots and one huge “makeup call.”
Don Van Natta Jr., Seth Wickersham ESPN Sep 2015 45min Permalink
On the adultery website AshleyMadison.com.
Sheelah Kolhatkar Businessweek Feb 2011 20min Permalink
Alberto Salazar is one of the most celebrated running coaches in the world. Is he also a cheater?
David Epstein ProPublica May 2015 20min Permalink
Inside the world of bass fishing cheaters.
David Hill Grantland Dec 2014 25min Permalink
Nancy and Frank Howard were happily married for three decades. Then he fell in love with another woman, embezzled $30 million, and hired a parade of inept hit men to kill his wife.
Michael J. Mooney D Magazine Nov 2014 25min Permalink
A profile of Ken Regan, a computer scientist, chess master, and world champion at detecting cheaters in chess.
Howard Goldowsky Chess Life Jun 2014 30min Permalink
The Giants' miraculous 1951 comeback wasn't all that it seemed.
Previously: The Longform Guide to Cheaters.
Joshua Prager The Wall Street Journal Jan 2001 20min Permalink
A profile of former South Carolina governor Mark Sanford, who is running for office four years after his affair with an Argentine journalist became national news.
Jason Zengerle New York Mar 2013 15min Permalink
On the battle between Shaquille O’Neal and his former IT guy, who’s in control of much of O’Neal’s archived (and often damning) correspondence.
Gus Garcia-Roberts The Miami New Times Sep 2011 20min Permalink
On why the Anthony Weiner story makes people more uncomfortable than simple cheating, the shifting meaning of faithfulness in marriage, and the relationship ideals espoused by Dan Savage:
In Savage Love, his weekly column, he inveighs against the American obsession with strict fidelity. In its place he proposes a sensibility that we might call American Gay Male, after that community’s tolerance for pornography, fetishes and a variety of partnered arrangements, from strict monogamy to wide openness.
Mark Oppenheimer New York Times Magazine Jul 2011 20min Permalink