The Forgotten Phenom
The lost dream of Korleone Young, a high school basketball star who skipped college and flamed out after only one NBA season.
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The lost dream of Korleone Young, a high school basketball star who skipped college and flamed out after only one NBA season.
Jonathan Abrams Grantland Sep 2013 40min Permalink
A basketball player, broke and without a Plan B, travels across the country for one last shot at glory.
Flinder Boyd SB Nation Oct 2013 30min Permalink
What did soccer have to do with two brutal murders after a pickup game?
Jeré Longman, Taylor Barnes New York Times Oct 2013 20min Permalink
Searching for the real reason why a bunch of kids partying at the empty home of an NFL player became a national story.
Jay Caspian Kang Grantland Nov 2013 20min 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
How good is Julian Newman, really?
Michael Kruse Tampa Bay Times Feb 2014 10min Permalink
After the 1919 Black Sox scandal, Ring Lardner, America’s first great sportswriter, walked away from the game.
Douglas Goetsch The American Scholar Apr 2011 25min 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
“Radically brilliant. Absurdly ahead of its time. Ridiculously poorly planned.” An oral history of the National Sports Daily.
Alex French, Howie Kahn Grantland Jun 2011 55min Permalink
A step-by-step proposal for fixing the broken economics of big-time college sports.
Joe Nocera New York Times Magazine Dec 2011 20min 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
The controversy surrounding the death of Uche Okafor.
Kent Babb The Kansas City Star May 2012 15min Permalink
The playground, the Ivy League, the triangle offense, and how we dreamed up a “black basketball” and “white basketball.”
Tom Scocca Transition Jan 2001 25min Permalink
“Richard Williams raised her to go to war with the world. Post-tennis, she plans to live in it.”
Kerry Howley New York Aug 2015 10min Permalink
How one woman’s sexual assault by four University of Oregon football players in 1980 unwittingly led to the state’s expansive free speech protections.
Susan Elizabeth Shepard SB Nation Oct 2015 30min Permalink
How a tiny island 5,000 miles from the U.S. mainland has produced so many NFL players.
Mike Sager California Sunday Nov 2015 20min Permalink
What happened after the first openly gay player in Division I men’s basketball came out.
Pablo S. Torre ESPN Oct 2015 15min Permalink
In an era when America’s great sportswriters were as big as the athletes they covered, W.C. Heinz may have been the best of the bunch.
Jeff MacGregor Sports Illustrated Sep 2000 25min Permalink
When 16 women live in a house, compete on a UFC reality show, and punch each other in the face.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner Matter Dec 2014 30min Permalink
What happend to Serafim Todorov after the 1996 Olympic featherweight semifinals.
Sam Borden New York Times Apr 2015 10min Permalink
Tracing the 3,339 miles the Canadian ran in 1980, on one good leg and one prosthetic limb.
John Brant Runner's World Jan 2007 25min Permalink
A reporter heads to Istanbul, where Iverson is playing minor league hoops in a 3,200-seat arena and hanging out at T.G.I. Friday’s.
Robert Huber Philadelphia Magazine Dec 2010 Permalink
The story of Nate Fleming—walk-on point guard at Oklahoma State, fan favorite, golden child—and the 2001 plane crash that took his life.
Tom Friend ESPN Jan 2011 Permalink
After too many tragedies, a veteran guide may turn his back on the mountain.
Abe Streep Outside Apr 2016 20min Permalink
Can Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski make the casual audience care about figure skating?
Leander Schaerlaeckens SB Nation Apr 2016 15min Permalink