The Rise and Fall of a New York Shock Jock
How Craig Carton, a morning host on WFAN, ended up running a Ponzi scheme.
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How Craig Carton, a morning host on WFAN, ended up running a Ponzi scheme.
Nick Paumgarten New Yorker Apr 2019 25min Permalink
A two-part investigation into why so many more young players are getting seriously injured.
Baxter Holmes ESPN Jul 2019 15min Permalink
Can Jerry Falwell Jr. build Liberty University’s football team into the evangelical version of Notre Dame?
Jordan Ritter Conn The Ringer Dec 2019 25min Permalink
Can the king of ultrarunning conquer a race as short as the marathon?
Joseph Bien-Kahn New York Times Magazine Feb 2020 30min Permalink
A conversation with the former player, and new coach, about basketball, Beijing, and being understood.
Vinson Cunningham The New Yorker Apr 2020 20min Permalink
Happy 59th! Or is it 58th? Cracking the mystery of Don Mattingly’s birthday.
Sam Miller ESPN Apr 2020 15min Permalink
A legendary chef and the wheels he left behind.
Ben Montgomery Bicycling Sep 2020 20min Permalink
It’s a multilevel marketing company called AdvoCare. Or maybe it’s a pyramid scheme.
Mina Kimes ESPN the Magazine Mar 2016 20min Permalink
The story of imprisoned boxer James Scott, who contended for the light heavyweight title by staging fights inside Rahway prison.
Brin-Jonathan Butler, Kurt Emhoff SB Nation Mar 2014 40min Permalink
He set a world record in the 100-yard dash as a teenager. He was mentored by Muhammad Ali and a man who orchestrated the largest bank embezzlement in U.S. history. He was homeless for part of his adult life before making a comeback at age 34. Throughout it all, Houston McTear was really, really fast.
Michael McKnight Sports Illustrated Aug 2016 35min Permalink
A profile of the highest paid coach in college basketball. A pioneer of one-and-done recruiting, Calipari is also the only coach in NCAA history to have two runs to the Final Four removed from the record books for rules violations.
S.L. Price Sports Illustrated Mar 2011 30min Permalink
On a basketball coach starting over at the lowest levels of the game after his ascendant NCAA career ended in a hazy tabloid scene at a Cleveland crackhouse.
Scott Raab GQ Dec 1992 25min Permalink
Inside the lack of an investigation into Florida State Heisman Trophy winner Jameis Winston.
Walt Bogdanich New York Times Apr 2014 20min Permalink
A final visit with late boxer Teófilo Stevenson, who could have fought or even been Muhammad Ali had he not stayed in Cuba.
Brin-Jonathan Butler SB Nation Jun 2014 30min Permalink
A father who brought his daughter to a ballgame and the fallout from a foul ball.
Christine Van Dusen Atlanta Magazine Jul 2014 15min Permalink
Y.A. Tittle, an 87-year-old Hall of Fame quarterback with dementia, travels to his hometown for the last time.
Seth Wickersham ESPN Jul 2014 Permalink
Life as an elite Scrabble player at the “first-ever four-day, 54-player, 24-match $100,000 Scrabble Superstars Showdown.”
S.L. Price Sports Illustrated Dec 1995 20min Permalink
A profile of former Duke basketball star Jay Williams a decade after the motorcycle crash that ended his career.
Greg Bishop New York Times Feb 2013 20min Permalink
Investigating a former NFL star’s new business: renting professional athletes to their biggest fans.
Rembert Browne Grantland Feb 2013 20min Permalink
It was a 3-mile footrace. Thousands were in attendance. So how did Michael LeMaitre disappear?
Christopher Solomon Runner's World Feb 2013 25min Permalink
Bob Voulgaris and his math prodigy sidekick attempt to create the perfect betting algorithm.
Scott Eden ESPN Feb 2013 20min Permalink
“He was, it must be said, a pig. And my heart grew fonder.”
Bill 'Muffy' O'Brien SB Nation Mar 2013 10min Permalink
Why almost everything we think we know about the iconic photo from Robinson’s first game is wrong.
Keith Olbermann MLB.com Apr 2013 10min Permalink
The story of 1968’s Golden Globe, a race to see who could become the first sailor to circumnavigate the world solo without stopping.
Maggie Shipstead Lapham's Quarterly Jun 2013 Permalink
The life of the former defensive tackle, who was paralyzed during a kickoff return.
Justin Heckert ESPN Sep 2015 15min Permalink