Antonio Carrion was headed for the NFL when the voices started and he drifted away. Then his estranged mother finished her time for robbery and saved him from a system that’s unkind to the mentally ill.
Can Jerry Falwell Jr. build Liberty University’s football team into the evangelical version of Notre Dame?
He sawed out the bottom. Nailed the crate to the telephone pole out in front of the house. New hoop. ... I’d be out there shooting until 10 at night. That’s when I started getting really good. The pole was round so you couldn’t bank the ball in. And you weren’t getting a friendly bounce on a square rim. You had to hit it dead-on, wet.
Can one agonizing defeat destroy a life?
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.
Knowing she had the legal right to die helped Paralympic gold medalist Marieke Vervoort live her life.
Andy Burcham is navigating his first season as the on-air replacement for his best friend, a beloved college football announcer named Rod Bramblett who was killed with his wife in a car crash. But a bigger change is at home, where the Burchams are raising the Brambletts’ son.
Inside the Rams-Chargers marriage.
How a Sacramento Kings executive stole more than $13 million from the team—and almost got away with it.
Gun violence, high school football and what coaches are doing to keep their players safe
In Kansas, girls didn’t have a wrestling championship. Mya Kretzer changed that.
On LeBron James’s photographic memory.
I cannot burden my family with worry, because to be a burden worse than not being family at all. Like everyone else, I came to the ballpark to get away from something.
Can a December marathon in Northern Maine, organized by an eccentric long-distance runner, make a difference to a former mill town?
Texans receiver DeAndre Hopkins says he owes his career to his mom. When you hear her remarkable story of survival, you’ll understand his devotion.
On sleep deprivation in the NBA.
Inside an international Mormon ticket reselling ring.
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.
This presentation was shown to potential recruits for the new Maven SI venture, and it details exactly how the people now in charge of Sports Illustrated plan on turning it into the sort of volume-driven content farm that ruled the web a dozen or so tweaks of the Google algorithm ago.
Ex-Ivy Leaguer and NFL-er Jeff Hatch spent years telling audiences of his triumph over opioid addiction, to great acclaim. Then as the rehab center he worked at drew national attention, a tortuous backstory of cops, dealers and deception came to light.
The untold story of Patriots owner Robert Kraft’s two visits to the Orchids of Asia Day Spa.
A visit to the massive Northern California surf break.
One man’s quest to stop horse racing deaths.
In an instant it was gone.
Mexico is now importing lots of its baseball talent from America.
