Q&A: Barack Obama and Bill Simmons
A conversation about leadership, Grantland, regret, and the President’s favorite conspiracy theories.
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A conversation about leadership, Grantland, regret, and the President’s favorite conspiracy theories.
Barack Obama, Bill Simmons GQ Nov 2015 20min Permalink
A legend hangs on.
Ed Caesar The Guardian Apr 2015 25min Permalink
“Calça de veludo ou bunda de fora.” Why Neymar, one of the world’s best talents hasn’t taken the money and run.
Sam Borden New York Times Jul 2012 Permalink
When should a football player, and in particular one who has suffered three concussions in 10 months, retire?
Kevin Van Valkenburg ESPN Dec 2014 10min Permalink
Cheryl Stearns wanted to become the first woman to skydive 20,000 times. She came up 14 jumps short.
Michael Graff Charlotte Magazine Jan 2015 25min Permalink
What happened to one of the most hated basketball players in NCAA history after playing a single season at Georgetown.
Alan Siegel Washingtonian Mar 2015 15min Permalink
An athlete without arms or legs tries to get a spot on a the national wheelchair rugby team.
Is it homage? An art project? Whatever it is, it is very Brooklyn 2015.
Tracy O'Neill Rolling Stone Apr 2015 10min Permalink
On Juliana Buhring, a former cult member who became the first woman to bike around the world.
Grayson Schaffer Outside Apr 2015 15min Permalink
The hockey legend’s new life as a medical icon for a questionable stem-cell treatment.
Reeves Wiedeman New York May 2015 20min Permalink
On the day of the earthquake, two men went into Haiti’s Soccer Federation headquarters. Only one came out.
Wright Thompson ESPN May 2010 20min Permalink
Kevin Hart wanted a scholarship to play Division I college football. It didn’t come. So he made one up–and called a press conference.
Tom Friend ESPN Jan 2009 35min Permalink
The bizarre tale–and unlikely turnaround–of an NHL player who tried to have his youth coach murdered.
L. Jon Wertheim Sports Illustrated Feb 2011 Permalink
Sex in the NBA in the wake of Magic Johnson’s HIV announcement.
E. Jean Carroll Esquire Apr 1992 25min Permalink
A decorated college track coach, forced to resign because of an affair she had with a athlete 10 years before, fights back.
Mimi Swartz Texas Monthly Sep 2013 50min Permalink
A profile of the Oklahoma City point guard, who is averaging a triple-double in his first season without Kevin Durant.
Sam Anderson New York Times Magazine Feb 2017 30min Permalink
A profile of NASCAR Dale Earnhardt Jr., who is returning to racing after a series of concussions.
Tommy Tomlinson ESPN the Magazine Feb 2017 25min Permalink
In the era of cord-cutting and mobile viewing, ESPN is at the crossroads.
Ira Boudway, Max Chafkin Businessweek Mar 2017 30min Permalink
A minute-by-minute account of one of the worst sailing disasters in American history.
Matthew Teague Smithsonian Jul 2017 25min Permalink
What it takes to be the best alpine skier in the world.
Elizabeth Weil Outside Nov 2017 15min Permalink
An encyclopedic evisceration of the NFL owner and former Six Flags chairman.
Dave McKenna Washington City Paper Nov 2010 20min Permalink
“The reason women-only billiards tournaments exist is not because the players can’t beat men. It’s because they can.”
Megan Greenwell Topic Mar 2018 10min Permalink
The latest federal NCAA probe is no different.
Kevin Armstrong New York Daily News Mar 2018 20min Permalink
Riding along with the cycling lawyer who’s trying to change that.
Andrew Tilin Outside Feb 2015 15min Permalink
The NFL is doing everything it can to avoid paying former players who have dementia.
Dom Cosentino Deadspin May 2018 15min Permalink