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Sports

"That's a Lot of F--- Yous!"

Inside the dual legacies of NFL players’ union boss DeMaurice Smith.

Don Van Natta Jr., Seth Wickerstam ESPN Feb 2021 40min Permalink

Business Sports

Drew Brees Has a Dream He'd Like to Sell You

It’s a multilevel marketing company called AdvoCare. Or maybe it’s a pyramid scheme.

Mina Kimes ESPN the Magazine Mar 2016 20min Permalink

Sports

Tom Brady Cannot Stop

A season with the New England Patriots’ 37-year-old quarterback.

Mark Leibovich New York Times Magazine Jan 2015 30min Permalink

Sports

The NFL's Fight for Los Angeles

Inside the Rams-Chargers marriage.

Seth Wickersham, Don Van Natta Jr. ESPN Nov 2019 30min Permalink

Sports

Madam Ram

The life and death of Georgia Frontiere, who was the only woman owner in professional sports when her St. Louis Rams won the 2000 Super Bowl.

Joshua Neuman Victory Journal Jul 2019 15min Permalink

Sports Movies & TV

The Great NFL Heist: How Fox Paid for and Changed Football Forever

An oral history of the most important deal in sports TV history, when Rupert Murdoch and Fox stole the NFL and John Madden out from under the Big Three networks and launched a television empire.

Bryan Curtis The Ringer Dec 2018 1h10min Permalink

Business Crime

Insider Trading’s Odd Couple: The Goldman Banker and the NFL Linebacker

Damilare Sonoiki and Mychal Kendricks made a very bad team.

Max Abelson, Felix Gillette Bloomberg Businessweek Sep 2018 10min Permalink

Sports

The Kick Is Up and It’s...a Career Killer

The precarious existence of NFL placekickers.

Michael Lewis Play Oct 2007 30min Permalink

Sports

A Family Left Behind

Mechelle McNair on remembering her late husband, NFL star Steve, and moving forward.

Elizabeth Merrill ESPN the Magazine Feb 2018 15min Permalink

Sports

The Search for Jackie Wallace

A New Orleans football legend reached the pinnacle of the sport, playing in three Super Bowls. Then he disappeared.

Ted Jackson The Times-Picayune Feb 2018 25min Permalink

A Protest Divided

How infighting splintered a group of players once unified in the movement started by Colin Kaepernick.

Howard Bryant ESPN Jan 2018 15min Permalink

Sports

The Cranky Redskins Fan's Guide to Dan Snyder

An encyclopedic evisceration of the NFL owner and former Six Flags chairman.

Dave McKenna Washington City Paper Nov 2010 20min Permalink

Sports

A Calculated Decision

Why former NFL lineman John Urschel chose math over football.

Tim Rohan The MMQB Nov 2017 20min Permalink

Sports

NFL Teeters On All-Out, Unprecedented Civil War

"I'm gonna come after you with everything I have." —Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell

Don Van Natta Jr., Seth Wickersham ESPN the Magazine Nov 2017 20min Permalink

Politics Sports

How the NFL, Players Forged Anthem Detente Amid Gaffes, TV Ratings Concerns

The behind-closed-doors story.

Don Van Natta Jr., Seth Wickersham ESPN Oct 2017 20min Permalink

Sports

Colin Kaepernick Has a Job

“Colin Kaepernick is inconvenient. To persist is to show strength, but also to be unpredictable, hard to define, impossible to control. And to grow stronger with every lash is to become dangerous—a threat not only to power, but to inspire others to follow suit.”

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Browne on the Longform Podcast

Rembert Browne Bleacher Report Sep 2017 40min Permalink

Sports

Eddie Lacy Is More Than a Meme

The Seahawks running back opens up about his public struggle with weight.

Kevin Van Valkenburg ESPN Sep 2017 15min Permalink

Sports

The Search For Aaron Rodgers

A profile of the quarterback.

Mina Kimes ESPN Aug 2017 20min Permalink

Business Sports

Jerry Football

A profile of Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones.

Don Van Natta Jr. ESPN Aug 2014 45min Permalink

Sports

Sin City or Bust

How the Raiders got to Las Vegas.

Seth Wickersham, Don Van Natta Jr. ESPN Apr 2017 30min Permalink

Sports Media

24 Hours... With Adam Schefter

A day with ESPN’s NFL scoopmaster.

Tim Rohan Monday Morning Quarterback Mar 2017 15min Permalink

Sports

What Ever Happened to Joseph Randle?

He was supposed to be the Dallas Cowboys’ star running back. Instead, Joseph Randle is in prison.

Dan Greene Sports Illustrated Jan 2017 30min Permalink

Crime Sports

Interstate Killer

With the 428th pick in the 1974 NFL draft, the Green Bay Packers selected…one of the most violent killers in U.S. history.

L. Jon Wertheim Sports Illustrated Nov 2016 25min Permalink

Crime Sports

Saint Will and the Man Who Shot Him

A former Saint and Super Bowl champion, Will Smith, was shot and killed by another player named Cardell Hayes. Their fatal collision highlights the fine line between triumph and tragedy in football and life in New Orleans.

Sean Flynn GQ Oct 2016 20min Permalink

Sports

Pity the Kicker

Life in the NFL when your job requires an impossible level of perfection (plus a lot of waiting around).

  1. Part I: Pity the Kicker

  2. Part II: A Lonely World

  3. Part III: Makes and Misses, the End and the Aftermath

Dylan Howlett MMQB Jul 2016 Permalink

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