Deliverance From 27,000 Feet
The journey to recover three bodies from Mt. Everest.
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The Stories Behind Football’s Most Powerful Friendship
How Bill Belichick and Nick Saban bond.
The Trippy, High-Speed World of Drone Racing
Flying straight from the future.
Iron Manhattan
Two men. Five days. Five boroughs. Five 140.6-mile triathlons.
The Unabashed Beauty of Jason Brown on Ice
Can artistry trump athleticism in figure skating?
A Family Left Behind
Mechelle McNair on remembering her late husband, NFL star Steve, and moving forward.
The Silent Season of a Hero
The complicated post-retirement life of Joe DiMaggio.
Michael Jordan Has Not Left The Building
A profile of Jordan at 50.
Serie Nacional
Nothing can match Cuban post-season baseball fever.
"It's F----ng Crazy Over There."
Inside the dysfunctional world of the Los Angeles Lakers.
The NFL's Fight for Los Angeles
Inside the Rams-Chargers marriage.
To The Driver Who Hit Me and Ran
A letter from a cyclist who survived.
The Ramshackle Garden of Affection
The two poets correspond about basketball, life, and living.
The Feminization of Bill Laimbeer
A Bad Boy coaches in the WNBA.
The Gangster in the Huddle
The double life of Aaron Hernandez.
Rose Eveleth is the host of Flash Forward and the author of Flash Forward: An Illustrated Guide to Possible (and Not So Possible) Tomorrows.
“If I didn’t have that pretty bizarrely insatiable drive to do this stuff and understand things, I don’t know if I’d still be doing this. The curiosity index has to be high in order to make the rest of it worth it. Because otherwise, what’s the point?”
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Flagrant Foul: Benching Teen Moms Before Title IX
In 1971, an unlikely activist sued to overturn Iowa’s ban on married women and mothers playing school sports. She just wanted to play.
The Life and Death of the Chosen One
Ricky Rodriguez was born in the role of the messiah. His father was David Berg, the leader of the polygamous/incestuous cult The Children of God, which published a book documenting his early life:
In 1982 a shop in Spain printed several thousand copies of a book that was then distributed to group members around the world. Bound in faux leather, illustrated with hundreds of photographs, the 762-page tome meticulously chronicled Ricky's young life and was intended as a child-rearing manual for families. Its title, The Story of Davidito, was stamped in gold. With its combination of earnest prose and unabashed child pornography, it is perhaps the most disturbing book ever published in the name of religion.
Eventually, he left the cult and found work as an electrician. But revenge called him back.
Chasing A-Rod
The war between Major League Baseball and Alex Rodriguez, “fought with six-figure payoffs in the tanning salons and strip malls of South Florida.”
A Sense of Who You Are
How fight coach Greg Jackson, once dubbed “the Philosopher King of MMA,” does his job.
In the Beginning, There Was a Nipple
How Janet Jackson’s wardrobe malfunction, all nine-sixteenths of a second of it, changed TV, the internet, and American culture.
The Rise and Fall of Wrestling's Weed-Dealing, Cat-Breeding Phenom
How the heir to the Hart wrestling dynasty burned every bridge from Canada to Mexico.
The Most Successful Female Everest Climber of All Time Is a Housekeeper in Hartford, Connecticut
The road to Lhakpa Sherpa’s seventh potential summit has been nothing if not complicated.
The Keyhole Seven
What went wrong when a group of canyoneers was caught by a flash flood in Zion National Park.
The Soccer-Star Refugees of Eritrea
What it takes to defect from the military state of one of the world’s youngest countries.
