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.”
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The war between Major League Baseball and Alex Rodriguez, “fought with six-figure payoffs in the tanning salons and strip malls of South Florida.”
Steve Fishman New York Dec 2013 30min Permalink
How fight coach Greg Jackson, once dubbed “the Philosopher King of MMA,” does his job.
Tim Marchman Deadspin Jan 2014 45min Permalink
How Janet Jackson’s wardrobe malfunction, all nine-sixteenths of a second of it, changed TV, the internet, and American culture.
Marin Cogan ESPN the Magazine Jan 2014 15min Permalink
How the heir to the Hart wrestling dynasty burned every bridge from Canada to Mexico.
Omar Mouallem Rolling Stone Mar 2016 15min Permalink
The road to Lhakpa Sherpa’s seventh potential summit has been nothing if not complicated.
Grayson Schaffer Outside May 2016 20min Permalink
What went wrong when a group of canyoneers was caught by a flash flood in Zion National Park.
Grayson Schaffer Outside May 2016 20min Permalink
What it takes to defect from the military state of one of the world’s youngest countries.
Alexis Okeowo New Yorker Dec 2016 35min Permalink
An attempt at writing about the football coach.
J. R. Moehringer Los Angeles Dec 2007 45min Permalink
In Argentina, where the fútbol underworld controls everything from t-shirt vending to murder, and “rowdy gangs” have turned the stadium into a battleground.
Patrick Symmes Outside Oct 2012 25min Permalink
How pitching phenom Steve Carlton became a yoga-loving conspiracy theorist who calls a concrete bunker his home.
Pat Jordan Philadelphia Magazine Apr 1994 30min Permalink
An oral history of the 2003 World Series of Poker, as poker went mainstream in America and online players invaded the competition.
Eric Raskin Grantland May 2013 1h Permalink
A profile of Dennis Rodman today.
Terrence McCoy New Times Broward-Palm Beach May 2013 20min Permalink
On the dangerous glut of visitors looking to conquer Mt. Everest, where there is sometimes a two-hour wait to climb the Hillary Step.
Mark Jenkins National Geographic Jun 2013 10min Permalink
A profile of the girls basketball team at Carroll Academy, a school run by a rural Tennessee juvenile court.
John Branch New York Times Jul 2013 45min Permalink
A profile of Chuck Blazer, “the man who built — and bilked — American soccer.”
Ken Bensinger Buzzfeed Jun 2014 30min Permalink
Once their careers end, pro wrestlers often fall into emotional and physical disrepair. One of their own, Diamond Dallas Page, has a fix.
Alex French New York Times Magazine Aug 2014 15min Permalink
“The whole thing has a sort of Taylor Swift-meets-jihad feel.”
Chadwick Moore Out Jul 2015 10min Permalink
Inside the paranoid world of Nike headquarters, where people are worried that Adidas might finally be capable of taking over the sneaker industry.
Matthew Shaer GQ Sep 2015 15min Permalink
How an amateur photographer documented the greatest achievement in track and field history.
David Davis Deadspin Oct 2015 15min Permalink
How a woman whose muscles disappeared discovered she shared a disease with a muscle-bound Olympic medalist.
David Epstein ProPublica Jan 2016 30min Permalink
How the feds flipped a corrupt American soccer official named Chuck Blazer and brought down the sport’s governing body.
Shaun Assael, Brett Forrest ESPN the Magazine Feb 2016 20min Permalink
The unexpected evolution of Olympic medalist Debi Thomas.
Terrence McCoy Washington Post Feb 2016 10min Permalink
The story of a college town and the most devastating tornado in Alabama history.
Lars Anderson Sports Illustrated May 2011 Permalink
The original article on Billy Beane and the Oakland A’s, published a month before the release of Moneyball.
Michael Lewis New York Times Magazine Mar 2003 35min 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