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Sports

Patrick Beverly Just Said That

The L.A. Clippers point guard is an underdog no more.

Shea Serrano The Ringer Sep 2017 10min Permalink

Sports

Colin Kaepernick Has a Job

“Colin Kaepernick is inconvenient. To persist is to show strength, but also to be unpredictable, hard to define, impossible to control. And to grow stronger with every lash is to become dangerous—a threat not only to power, but to inspire others to follow suit.”

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Browne on the Longform Podcast

Rembert Browne Bleacher Report Sep 2017 40min Permalink

Sports

When There Is No tomorrow

Inside the Cleveland Indians clubhouse during their 22 game win streak.

Wright Thompson ESPN Sep 2017 15min Permalink

Sports

The Woeful Life of Jake LaMotta

A profile of the Raging Bull boxer.

Joe Flaherty Inside Sports Jan 1981 20min Permalink

Sports

Eddie Lacy Is More Than a Meme

The Seahawks running back opens up about his public struggle with weight.

Kevin Van Valkenburg ESPN Sep 2017 15min Permalink

Sports

Why Ric Flair's Greatest Legacy Is His Daughter

WWE star Charlotte Flair follows in her famous father’s footsteps.

Dave Schilling Bleacher Report Sep 2017 15min Permalink

Sports Travel

My Drowning (And Other Inconveniences)

The author didn’t plan to write about that 2014 trip through the Grand Canyon. Then he died.

Tim Cahill Outside Sep 2017 20min Permalink

Best Article Sports

Welcome to the Far Eastern Conference

On former Knicks savior Stephon Marbury and his post-NBA life playing in China.

Wells Tower GQ Apr 2011 25min Permalink

Sports

The Search For Aaron Rodgers

A profile of the quarterback.

Mina Kimes ESPN Aug 2017 20min Permalink

Sports Media

The Fallout From Sportswriting's Filthiest Fuck-Up

Twenty years later, looking back at an infamous paragraph.

Jeff Pearlman Deadspin Aug 2017 20min Permalink

Sports World

After the Flame

What the 2016 Summer Games left behind in Rio.

Wayne Drehs, Mariana Lajolo ESPN Aug 2017 15min Permalink

Sports

Six-Man Forever

How one girl saved a football season in a small, rural town in Texas.

Elizabeth Merrill ESPN the Magazine Aug 2017 15min Permalink

Sports Health

The Hungriest Man on Earth

How the heaviest man in the NFL survived a life of pain and transformed his body after falling in love.

Joon Lee Bleacher Report Jul 2017 15min Permalink

Sports

The Seeker

The complicated life and death of Hideki Irabu, a pitcher who was supposed to become a Yankee legend and found heartache instead.

Ben Reiter Sports Illustrated Aug 2017 15min Permalink

Business Sports

Jerry Football

A profile of Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones.

Don Van Natta Jr. ESPN Aug 2014 45min Permalink

Sports

Finding Darko

The NBA’s greatest draft bust, Darko Milicic is now an enthusiastic farmer of cherries in his native Serbia.

Sam Borden ESPN Aug 2017 25min Permalink

Politics Sports

First Golfer

Donald Trump’s relationship with golf has never been more complicated.

Alan Shipnuck Sports Illustrated Aug 2017 20min Permalink

Crime Sports

The Drug Runners

The Tarahumara became famous for running incredibly long distances. In recent years, cartels have exploited their talents by forcing them to ferry drugs into America. Now they’re running for their lives.

Ryan Goldberg Texas Monthly Jul 2017 30min Permalink

Crime Sports

Highway to Hell

The prison life of O.J. Simpson.

Greg Bishop, Thayer Evans Sports Illustrated Jun 2014 20min Permalink

Sports

When Athletes Gotta Go...Where Do They Go?

An investigation.

David Fleming ESPN Jul 2017 10min Permalink

Best Article Sports

Being John McEnroe

On his journey from phenom to champion to wannabe rock star to Emmy-winning commentator, John McEnroe hasn’t changed much.

Julian Rubinstein New York Times Magazine Jan 2000 30min Permalink

Business Sports

Mr. Ten Percent

A profile of Chuck Blazer, “the man who built — and bilked — American soccer.”

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Blazer died this week at 72.

Ken Bensinger Buzzfeed Jun 2014 30min Permalink

Sports

A Team of Their Own

The members of Girls Travel Baseball come from all over the country, compete against boys, and aim to prove they can play in the major leagues.

Jessica Luther Bleacher Report Jul 2017 15min Permalink

Sports World

A Kingdom for a Horse

“The most decorated athlete in all of Kazakhstan is a five-year-old Mongolian horse named Lazer.”

Will Boast VQR Jul 2017 20min Permalink

Sports

Fear of Falling

Four American rock climbers are kidnapped by guerillas in Kyrgyzstan.

Greg Child Outside Nov 2000 30min Permalink

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