The Right Thing to Do vs. The State of Florida
After Devaughn Darling died during a workout with the Florida State football team, his family was awarded a payout of $2 million. That was 13 years ago. Only $200,000 has come.
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After Devaughn Darling died during a workout with the Florida State football team, his family was awarded a payout of $2 million. That was 13 years ago. Only $200,000 has come.
Michael Kruse SB Nation Aug 2014 25min Permalink
A French soccer star’s rise and fall from sports to cons to the Nazi Party.
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Juliet Jacques Berfrois Sep 2014 25min Permalink
Over the past 33 years, Dick Hoyt has pushed, pulled and carried his disabled son, Rick, through more than 1,000 road races and triathlons, including 28 Boston Marathons. But as time bears down on them, how much longer can they keep it up?
Gary Smith Sports Illustrated Apr 2011 30min Permalink
An attempt to sort out whether Vick is truly a changed man or simply a very gifted football player who was bound to be forgiven.
Will Leitch GQ Sep 2011 15min Permalink
Daniel Norris lives out of his car. He’s also the #1 pitching prospect for the Toronto Blue Jays.
Eli Saslow ESPN the Magazine Mar 2015 10min Permalink
The woman that the mixed martial arts star beat nearly to death tells her side of the story.
Jane McManus ESPN W. Apr 2015 15min Permalink
Over a scotch a few months after his underdog Jets won Super Bowl III, a 26-year-old Joe Namath told Jimmy Breslin what he’d done the night before the game: “I went out and got a bottle and grabbed this girl.”
Jimmy Breslin New York Apr 1969 10min Permalink
Brian Windhorst was one of the first reporters to cover LeBron James. He was there in high school. There at the draft. There in Cleveland. And now he’s there in Miami, though the relationship is far from what it used to be.
On NFL siblings Michael and Martellus Bennett, who “tend to perplex people.”
Mina Kimes ESPN Aug 2016 15min Permalink
The implosion of the daily fantasy industry is a bro-classic tale of hubris, recklessness, political naïveté and a kill-or-be-killed culture.
Don Van Natta Jr. ESPN the Magazine Aug 2016 25min Permalink
An Ironman consists of a 2.4-mile swim, then a 112-mile bike ride and then a marathon. The Quintuple Anvil Triathlon is five Ironmans in a row.
Randal C. Archibold New York Times Nov 2016 Permalink
S.L. Price is a senior writer at Sports Illustrated.
“The fact is, if you write about sports and people think they're just reading about sports, they'll read about drug use. They'll read about sex. They'll read about sex change. They'll read about communism. They'll read about issues they couldn't possibly care about, issues that if they saw them in any other part of the paper they would just gloss over. But because it's about sports—because there's a boxing ring or a baseball field or a football field—they'll be more patient and you can get some issues under the transom.”
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Aug 2015 Permalink
A profile of James Harden, the Houston Rockets shooting guard that just signed a $200 million endorsement deal with Adidas.
Pablo S. Torre ESPN the Magazine Oct 2015 Permalink
His brain and body shattered in a horrible accident as a young boy, Bret Dunlap thought just being able to hold down a job, keep an apartment, and survive on his own added up to a good enough life. Then he discovered running.
Steve Friedman Runner's World May 2013 30min Permalink
The 20-year-old is poised to burst into the top tier of women’s tennis. Can she also burst Japan’s expectations of what it means to be Japanese?
Brook Larmer New York Times Magazine Aug 2018 20min Permalink
On sleep deprivation in the NBA.
Baxter Holmes ESPN Oct 2019 20min Permalink
One teammate made tennis his whole life. The other had a grandfather whose company invented Hot Pockets. Guess which one went to Georgetown as a Division I recruit.
Daniel Golden, Doris Burke ProPublica Oct 2019 30min Permalink
Todd Marinovich was engineered from birth to be the greatest quarterback of all time. He ended up doing heroin in the locker room. A 2010 National Magazine Award winner, reprinted on Longform.
Mike Sager Esquire May 2010 40min Permalink
An organ transplant recipient cycles across the country to meet the people who gave him his heart.
A.C. Shilton Bicycling Jan 2020 Permalink
A year ago, he was one of the Premier League’s highest-paid players. Now, after angering China and refusing a pay cut, he has simply vanished.
Rory Smith, Tariq Panja New York Times Oct 2020 Permalink
An oral history of the 2002 Western Conference finals between the Los Angeles Lakers and Sacramento Kings.
Previously: Jonathan Abrams on the Longform Podcast.
Jonathan Abrams Grantland May 2014 1h5min Permalink
Eddie Griffin made it to the NBA. Then his life began to unravel.
Jonathan Abrams Grantland Jun 2014 45min Permalink
On the meeting of shaggy-haired American ping pong ace Glenn Cowan and Chinese master Zhuang Zedong (who died this week), and how their fleeting friendship thawed relations between the twon nations during the U.S. team’s historic 1971 tour of China.
David Davis Los Angeles Aug 2006 10min Permalink
In February, Jerusalem’s FC Beitar, the only soccer team in the Israeli Premier League to have never signed an Arab player, signed two Chechnyan Muslims, sparking national controversy and pitting the organization against their ultras fan club La Familia.
Amos Barshad Grantland Mar 2013 30min Permalink
“At the gym, he’s not Garrett Holeve, the guy with Down syndrome. He’s G-Money, an up-and-coming fighter with big ambitions.”
Chris Sweeney New Times Broward-Palm Beach Dec 2012 15min Permalink