Mourning Glory
A high school baseball team responds to a loss.
A high school baseball team responds to a loss.
Chris Ballard Sports Illustrated Oct 2012 30min Permalink
On the road with three high school show choirs and a dream.
William Powell Cincinnati Magazine Jul 2012 25min Permalink
Lance Butterfield was the captain of the football team, had a 4.0 GPA and a girl he loved. It wasn’t enough for his dad. And then his dad became too much for him.
Part of our guide to Skip Hollandsworth’s true crime writing at Slate.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Jun 1998 30min Permalink
The story of a high school star who died minutes after hitting a game-winner to end an undefeated season, and the family and friends he left behind.
Thomas Lake Sports Illustrated Feb 2012 25min Permalink
On Mike Powell, a Chicago-area high school wrestling coach who hasn’t allowed a life-threatening illness to interrupt his life’s work.
Chris Ballard Sports Illustrated Feb 2012 30min Permalink
On Clifton “Pop” Herring, the then-26-year-old high school basketball coach who famously left Jordan off the varsity squad as a sophomore.
Thomas Lake Sports Illustrated Jan 2012 30min Permalink
An attempt to recruit black students at Virginia’s most famous “segregation academy.”
Kevin Sieff Washington Post Dec 2011 10min Permalink
The story of twin boys who became brother and sister.
Bella English The Boston Globe Dec 2011 35min Permalink
A portrait of three high school kids in Arizona forced to live on their own after SB 1070.
John Faherty The Arizona Republic Dec 2011 35min Permalink
On the death of a high school basketball star in New York City.
Jonathan Abrams Grantland Nov 2011 20min Permalink
On the brutal killing of a high school girl in British Columbia.
David Kushner Vanity Fair Oct 2011 20min Permalink
When an exclusive private school discovered a teacher was sleeping with his 17-year old student, administrators did their best to make the problem vanish.
Claire St. Amant D Magazine Oct 2011 15min Permalink
On a group of teenage believers raised in settlements on the West Bank:
They say it takes one generation to found a new language. These girls are a new language, believing that they belong to the land on which they were born, and sponsored by the government they despise, which pays for their roads and electricity.
Elizabeth Rubin Tablet Sep 2011 Permalink
A tony bedroom community in Los Angeles, a kidnapping gone horribly wrong, and the birth of a teenage fugitive.
Jesse Katz Los Angeles Feb 2002 35min Permalink
Just after midnight, Rye police arrived to bust a house full of partying teenagers. The kids refused to unlock the door, and parents and cops flooded the street. A minute-by-minute account of the standoff.
David Amsden New York May 2005 15min Permalink
The rise, fall and stubborn survival of a teenage Internet celebrity who discovered that the real world can be a very scary place.
Sabrina Rubin Erdely Rolling Stone Apr 2011 25min Permalink
On the genesis of the It Gets Better Project.
Dan Savage The Stranger Apr 2011 10min Permalink
The inner workings of a high school basketball team stacked with international talent.
Gus Garcia-Roberts The Miami New Times Mar 2011 20min Permalink
A 15-year-old dies shortly after collapsing from heatstroke during a high school football practice. Was it has coach’s fault? The state thought so, and put him on trial.
Thomas Lake Sports Illustrated Dec 2010 30min Permalink
Mr. Lindall was the only high school teacher who understood him. Then Mr. Lindall went to jail, and it was his turn to try to understand.
Robert Kurson Esquire Mar 2000 Permalink
Kevin Hart wanted a scholarship to play Division I college football. It didn’t come. So he made one up–and called a press conference.
Tom Friend ESPN Jan 2009 35min Permalink
Her suicide made headlines around the world after classmates were indicted on felony charges related to bullying. The real story isn’t that simple.
Emily Bazelon Slate Jul 2010 15min Permalink
Dozens of young adults in rural Wales are hanging themselves, feeding an epidemic of copycat suicides that experts are have been unable to contain.
Alex Shoumatoff Vanity Fair Feb 2009 25min Permalink
A teenage love triangle turns tragic in Pinellas Park, Florida.
Lane DeGregory The St. Petersburg Times Jul 2010 15min Permalink
Step 1: awkward high school senior passes himself off as a flirtatious female student online. Step 2: he cons his male classmates into e-mailing him sexually explicit images of themselves. Step 3: extortion.
Michael Joseph Gross GQ Jul 2009 20min Permalink