A Nameless Hiker and the Case the Internet Can’t Crack
The man on the trail went by “Mostly Harmless.” He was friendly and said he worked in tech. After he died in his tent, no one could figure out who he was.
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The man on the trail went by “Mostly Harmless.” He was friendly and said he worked in tech. After he died in his tent, no one could figure out who he was.
Nicholas Thompson Wired Nov 2020 15min Permalink
How a Texas university eagerly accepted a top football player as a transfer even though he had just been kicked off another school’s team for a previous incident of violence involving a female student.
Jessica Luther, Dan Solomon Texas Monthly Aug 2015 15min Permalink
On the Long Island Inferno, two fathers, both with complicated pasts took it all too far. Neither man was ever the same.
David Gauvey Herbert Esquire May 2021 30min Permalink
Paul Wulff, a college football coach, was only 12 when his mother vanished from their family home. After 41 years of searching, he finally has been able to piece together some details of a mystery that upended both his life and family.
Kyle Bonagura, Adam Rittenberg ESPN Aug 2021 20min Permalink
Pablo Torre is a sports journalist and the host of the ESPN Daily podcast.
“I have an open borders policy as a podcast. All are welcome, but I’m specifically appealing to people who want a little bit more of that magazine curation. What if I gave you one thing today, and that thing was the thing you needed, and what if that thing is deliberately different from every other way you consume sports? That’s the premise.”
Sep 2022 Permalink
Jai Alai once packed Florida’s frontons with gamblers and glamor. Today, America is down to a single top-level pro who plays under the name Tevin in honor of Tevin Campbell.
Michael J. Mooney SB Nation Feb 2013 25min Permalink
“Formal bullfighting is an art, a tragedy, and a business. To what extent it is an art depends on the bulls and the men who are hired to kill them, but it is always a tragedy and it is always a business.”
Ernest Hemingway Fortune Mar 1930 25min Permalink
To understand why a 64-year-old man would try and break the land speed record by traveling hundreds of miles per hour, you need to know a little something about his family.
Ann O'Neill CNN Aug 2014 20min Permalink
This is what happens when you concoct game-fixing allegations against a Major League pitcher because of a perceived slight on Facebook.
Lance Williams, Brian Tuohy Center for Investigative Reporting Aug 2014 20min Permalink
On the importance of skateboarding.
Sean Wilsey London Review of Books Jun 2003 40min Permalink
How a longtime gambling addict and a small band of his cronies manipulated both the game and betting exchanges from a tiny Berlin cafe, going as far as buying ownerships of teams in order to insure their failure.
Drake Bennett Businessweek Mar 2013 15min Permalink
Former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling needed funding for his ambitious video-game startup. Rhode Island politicians needed jobs and a vision for how to transform the state’s beleaguered economy. The story of a $75 million bet gone bust.
Matt Bai New York Times Apr 2013 Permalink
How the heir to a horse racing empire became an informant on the Zetas cartel as they pushed their money laundering operations into the lucrative quarter horse trade.
Melissa Del Bosque, Jazmine Ulloa Texas Observer Aug 2013 20min Permalink
The running back’s life since he was indicted on charges of beating his son and suspended from the NFL.
Eli Saslow ESPN Aug 2015 15min Permalink
“The concussion that led Borland to retire came on a routine play, and that’s precisely his point.”
Steve Fainaru, Mark Fainaru-Wada ESPN Aug 2015 30min Permalink
Just days after suffering a concussion, a 17-year-old fullback hangs himself. Inside his family’s journey to learn if a brain injury is to blame.
Patrick Hruby Washingtonian Jul 2012 25min Permalink
What’s the reason for Mike Tyson’s continuing appeal?
Brin-Jonathan Butler SB Nation Feb 2015 35min Permalink
Billionaire Marcelo Claure wants to help David Beckham bring professional soccer to South Florida. He just doesn't want to talk about it.
Robert Andrew Powell Howler Mar 2015 30min Permalink
For a few weeks a few years ago, Jeremy Lin was on top of the basketball world. Now he’s riding the bench, being taunted by Kobe Bryant, and trying to figure out what the hell happened.
Pablo S. Torre ESPN the Magazine Mar 2015 15min Permalink
Darren Sharper was once an NFL star. He was also a serial rapist, one who law enforcement failed to stop.
Long before he lied about taking steroids and was indicted for perjury, Clemens was just a good ol’ boy from Texas with a world-class workout regimen.
Pat Jordan New York Times Magazine May 2001 15min Permalink
On the Dancing Dolls of Jackson, stars of the reality show Bring It! and part of a long Southern tradition of majorette dancing.
Karen Good Marable The Undefeated Jul 2016 20min Permalink
In the midst of a tribal burial, Jim Thorpe’s third wife burst in to remove his body, setting in motion a decades-long battle over the Native American athlete’s final resting place.
Kurt Streeter ESPN Jul 2016 15min Permalink
An East German weightlifter ingested more anabolic steroids than any other athlete in recorded history. It didn’t end well.
Brian Blickenstaff Vice Aug 2016 15min Permalink
How the best tennis player of all time fell in love with the guy who founded Reddit.
Buzz Bissinger Vanity Fair Jun 2017 20min Permalink