How and (Why) Athletes Go Broke
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.
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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.
Pablo S. Torre Sports Illustrated Mar 2009 25min Permalink
“We must be grateful for the smallest of blessings. Last week I saw and heard some things that provided a measure of hope and nuance in these grim and hysterical times.”
Dave Eggers Medium Dec 2017 35min Permalink
What happened to “one of maybe 20 girls who became famous in the mid-‘00s for posting photos of themselves on image boards.”
Allie Conti The Miami New Times Oct 2013 20min Permalink
She keeps watch over one of the largest databases of missing persons in the country. For Meaghan Good, the disappeared are still out here, you just have to know where to look.
Jeremy Lybarger Longreads Jan 2018 20min Permalink
The family that pioneered the oil industry in America wants to expose what Exxon hid from the public about climate change.
Reeves Wiedeman New York Jan 2018 20min Permalink
Stewart Resnick is the biggest farmer in the United States, a fact he has tried to keep hidden while he has shaped what we eat, transformed California’s landscape, and ruled entire towns. But the one thing he can’t control is what he’s most dependent on—water.
Mark Arax California Sunday Jan 2018 1h20min Permalink
How 88rising is making a place for Asians in hip-hop.
Hua Hsu New Yorker Mar 2018 25min Permalink
On creativity in the age of Trump.
Patricia Lockwood Tin House Apr 2018 10min Permalink
Jimmy Smith-Kramer, a basketball legend on the Quinault Nation reservation, was 20 when he was mowed down by a white man in a pickup truck. The decision not to charge a hate crime, and recent talk of a plea deal, has re-opened ancient wounds.
Rahima Nasa ProPublica Apr 2018 20min Permalink
On June 4, 1989, the bodies of Jo, Michelle, and Christe were found floating in Tampa Bay. This is the story of the murders, their aftermath, and the handful of people who kept faith amid the unthinkable.
Thomas French The St. Petersburg Times Oct 1997 3h30min Permalink
“Electorates turned with special venom against parties offering what was in effect a milder version of the economic consensus: free-market capitalism with a softer edge. It’s as if the voters are saying to those parties: what actually are you for?”
John Lanchester London Review of Books Jun 2018 20min Permalink
In America’s deadliest big city, the task of announcing each new murder falls to police spokesman T. J. Smith. One year ago, he confronted a killing like no other.
Luke Mullins The Atlantic Jul 2018 30min Permalink
Pinned down in deep snow and running out of food, veteran thru-hiker Stephen “Otter” Olshansky scraped his way to a campground latrine, holed up inside, and prayed for help to arrive.
Doug Robinson Outside Aug 2018 25min Permalink
“We need a new language for talking about poverty. ‘Nobody who works should be poor,’ we say. That’s not good enough. Nobody in America should be poor, period.”
Matthew Desmond New York Times Magazine Sep 2018 20min Permalink
A father took his 10-year-old fishing. She fell in the water and drowned. It was a tragic accident—then he was charged with murder.
Jordan Smith The Intercept Sep 2018 40min Permalink
Christopher Daniels’ political beliefs got him in trouble. Though the FBI won’t comment, he is likely the first person ever imprisoned for being a “black identity extremist.”
Peter Simek D Magazine Sep 2018 25min Permalink
Newt Gingrich turned partisan battles into bloodsport and now he’s reveling in his achievements.
McKay Coppins The Atlantic Nov 2018 40min Permalink
Last December, a Canadian pharmaceuticals executive and his wife were found strangled in their home. No one knows who did it or why, but everyone has a theory.
Matthew Campbell Businessweek Oct 2018 30min Permalink
Chad Walde believed in his work at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Then he got a rare brain cancer linked to radiation, and the government denied it had any responsibility.
Rebecca Moss ProPublica Oct 2018 40min Permalink
The company has been battling its store owners for years, using tactics that include planting hidden cameras and and tailing franchisees in unmarked vehicles. It seems to have found a new tool: U.S. immigration authorities.
Lauren Etter, Michael Smith Businessweek Nov 2018 15min Permalink
A secretive hedge fund used the British court system to punish an IP thief‚ even though he was already in jail.
Kit Chellel, Jeremy Hodges Bloomberg Businessweek Nov 2018 20min Permalink
Amid the brutal civil war, a town fought off the regime and the fundamentalists—and dared to hold an election. Can its experiment in democracy survive?
Anand Gopal New Yorker Nov 2018 45min Permalink
A glimpse of life on the suburban road, featuring Russian mobsters, Fox News rage addicts, a caged man in a sex dungeon, and Dick Cheney.
Lauren Hough Huffington Post Dec 2018 25min Permalink
On Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism.
By reengineering the economy and society to their own benefit, Google and Facebook are perverting capitalism in a way that undermines personal freedom and corrodes democracy.
Nicholas Carr Los Angeles Review of Books Jan 2019 15min Permalink
In 2007, NBA ref Tim Donaghy pleaded guilty to betting on games he officiated. But it was never proved that he fixed them—until now.
Scott Eden ESPN Feb 2019 50min Permalink