The Boy They Couldn't Kill
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.
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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.
Thomas Lake Sports Illustrated Sep 2012 25min Permalink
She raced cars when few women dared. But more than trophies or prize money, it was the zen of driving that pulled her in. This is the story of Denise McCluggage, America’s once-fastest woman.
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
At age 17, Bonnie Richardson won the Texas state track team championship all by herself. Then she did it again.
Gary Smith Sports Illustrated Sep 2009 25min Permalink
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.
Gary Smith Sports Illustrated Jun 2003 35min Permalink
Eight years after Moneyball, nearly every MLB front office has integrated statistical analysis into its strategic process. So where does that leave a former wunderkind like Red Sox General Manager Theo Epstein?
Tom Verducci Sports Illustrated Sep 2011 20min Permalink
Mykal Riley’s last-second three-pointer kept thousands of fans out of the path of a tornado. Just as remarkable? That Riley was there to take the shot in the first place.
Thomas Lake Sports Illustrated Mar 2009 15min Permalink
“My name is Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr., and my name is also Abdul Kareem, but I’ll explain about that much later.” A three-part personal essay on basketball, family, race and religion.
Jack Olsen, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Sports Illustrated Nov 1969 1h30min Permalink
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.
George Plimpton Sports Illustrated Apr 1985 25min Permalink
When a Black lineman from Colorado State went knocking on doors in a white neighborhood, he found himself at the dangerous intersection of a national racial reckoning and a world of internet-conspiracy fanaticism.
Alex Prewitt Sports Illustrated Aug 2020 20min Permalink
Relief pitcher Donnie Moore is best known for giving up a crucial home run during Game 5 the 1986 ALCS. It’s not what led to his suicide a few years later.
Michael McKnight Sports Illustrated Oct 2014 10min Permalink
The story of the Refugee Olympic team.
S.L. Price Sports Illustrated Jul 2016 20min Permalink
Sixty years ago, the U.S. upset England in the World Cup on a goal from Joe Gaetjens. In most countries he would have been idolized. Instead, he was ignored in America and marked for death in his native Haiti.
Alexander Wolff Sports Illustrated Mar 2010 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
Just before his first NBA game, an 18-year-old LeBron James was asked about the pressure of controlling the combined fortunes of a city, major corporations, and the league. “I can handle it,” he said.
Jack McCallum Sports Illustrated Oct 2003 15min Permalink
One year after a 14-year-old basketball player was killed by a stray bullet on a playground court in Queens, his friends and family still don’t have answers—only enduring anguish and a familiar feeling of grief.
Kevin Armstrong Sports Illustrated Dec 2020 25min Permalink
Australian Rocky Perone, age 21, made his minor league baseball debut with a stolen base in 1974. Except he wasn’t Australian, wasn’t named Rocky Perone and most definitely wasn’t 21.
Chris Ballard Sports Illustrated Sep 2015 25min 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
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
Last summer, Gia Allemand took her own life in a New Orleans apartment complex. The first person on the scene was her boyfriend, NBA star Ryan Anderson. This is the story of how he survived.
Chris Ballard Sports Illustrated Nov 2014 1h15min Permalink
The multiple stories behind an iconic college football photo.
Gary Smith Sports Illustrated Jul 1999 20min Permalink
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
In 1971, an unlikely activist sued to overturn Iowa’s ban on married women and mothers playing school sports. She just wanted to play.
Britni de la Cretaz Longreads Aug 2019 Permalink
A Little League season in Camden, New Jersey, where the murder rate is 17 times the national average.
Kathy Dobie GQ May 2014 25min Permalink
A lesson in ethics.
Manny Randhawa, Tommy Craggs National Sports Journalism Center Feb 2013 15min Permalink