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How fight coach Greg Jackson, once dubbed “the Philosopher King of MMA,” does his job.
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How fight coach Greg Jackson, once dubbed “the Philosopher King of MMA,” does his job.
Tim Marchman Deadspin Jan 2014 45min Permalink
How an amateur photographer documented the greatest achievement in track and field history.
David Davis Deadspin Oct 2015 15min Permalink
Football-related brain damage made Rickie Harris fall from the heights of the NFL to serving a DUI sentence in his ex-wife’s basement.
Dave McKenna Deadspin May 2015 20min Permalink
A dispatch from Anthony Scaramucci’s SALT Conference.
Hamilton Nolan Deadspin Jun 2017 30min Permalink
One of the most accomplished Himalayan guides works at an outdoor retailer in Lower Manhattan.
Ryan Goldberg Deadspin Jul 2018 25min Permalink
“You are not your job.” The former staff writer finds a newfound joy in his restaurant career.
John Walters Deadspin Apr 2019 10min Permalink
Pete Philo had a successful NBA career as a scout for the Pacers, Timberwolves, and Mavericks. He got all those jobs after being convicted of raping a teenager.
Dave McKenna Deadspin Jun 2019 30min Permalink
The unlikely rise of the 1983 national croquet champions.
Julian Smith Deadspin Sep 2019 20min Permalink
Twelve columns about the boxer’s descent, originally published in the Chicago Daily News and the Chicago Sun-Times.
John Schulian Deadspin Mar 2015 55min Permalink
“The sex abuse is a symptom of a culture that does not allow the athletes to have their voice.”
Dvora Meyers Deadspin May 2017 Permalink
“The tragedy of digital media isn’t that it’s run by ruthless, profiteering guys in ill-fitting suits; it’s that the people posing as the experts know less about how to make money than their employees, to whom they won’t listen.”
Megan Greenwell Deadspin Aug 2019 10min Permalink
The so-called gambling experts who sell their picks, lie about their records, and get paid even when they’re wrong.
Ryan Goldberg Deadspin Jun 2016 40min Permalink
A profile of “the seven-time defending UFC light-heavyweight champion, practically unbeatable, and already maybe the greatest fighter of all time.”
Greg Howard Deadspin Dec 2014 50min Permalink
A profile of John Alan Schwartz, creator of one of the most notorious movies ever made.
Brian Hickey Deadspin Feb 2012 10min Permalink
The second richest musician in the world, behind Paul McCartney, is James Dolan, owner of the Knicks and Madison Square Garden, whose band JD & The Straight Shot toured opening for Jewel behind an album that sold 113 copies.
Dave McKenna Deadspin May 2016 25min Permalink
In the 1980s, Billy Ray Bates, once dubbed “the Legend,” drank himself out of the NBA and ended up playing in the Philippines. For a few wild years, his legend grew—both on the court and in the bars.
Rafe Bartholomew Deadspin Jun 2010 15min Permalink
I cannot burden my family with worry, because to be a burden worse than not being family at all. Like everyone else, I came to the ballpark to get away from something.
Malt Schlizmann Deadspin Oct 2019 15min Permalink
I find myself in a strange situation where people I love were traumatized and devastated by what happened to me, but I—the dude who actually suffered the injury—fell into a two-week time warp before waking up strapped to a gurney: emaciated, woozy, confused, and irritable.
Drew Magary Deadspin May 2018 30min Permalink
The strange saga of Sarah Phillips, who went from message board commenter to ESPN gambling columnist and hid her identity from editors, scamming many of the people she met along the way.
John Koblin Deadspin May 2012 25min Permalink
What happened to the women in the Robert Kraft massage parlor case? And why did the case collapse?
Diana Moskovitz, Hallie Lieberman Deadspin Jun 2019 25min Permalink
Do not assume, just because there is champagne and whiskey and maybe, sometimes, drugs, that these shuckers aren’t also thinking long and hard, and often poetically, about their métier.
Noelle Mateer Deadspin Sep 2019 15min Permalink
How a small group of gamers has been able to “set the terms of debate in a $100 billion industry, even as they send women like Brianna Wu into hiding and show every sign that they intend to keep doing so until all their demands are met.”
Kyle Wagner Deadspin Oct 2014 20min Permalink
“Norbert Grupe—a Nazi soldier’s son, boxer, professional wrestler, failed actor, criminal, and miserable human being who was never so happy as when he could make someone hate him—was once a man so beautiful that other men wanted to paint him.”
Shaun Raviv Deadspin Oct 2015 25min Permalink
Brian Chavez was supposed to be the one who made it out of Odessa. It didn’t turn out that way.
Dave McKenna Deadspin Dec 2015 25min Permalink
This presentation was shown to potential recruits for the new Maven SI venture, and it details exactly how the people now in charge of Sports Illustrated plan on turning it into the sort of volume-driven content farm that ruled the web a dozen or so tweaks of the Google algorithm ago.
Laura Wagner, Kelsey McKinney, David Roth Deadspin Oct 2019 30min Permalink