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Sports

A Sport of Their Own

In Kansas, girls didn’t have a wrestling championship. Mya Kretzer changed that.

Liz Clarke Washington Post Nov 2019 15min Permalink

Sports

Total Recall

On LeBron James’s photographic memory.

Brian Windhorst ESPN Jul 2014 15min Permalink

Sports

My Life As A Minor League Baseball Clown

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.

Malt Schlizmann Deadspin Oct 2019 15min Permalink

Sports

Marathon Man

Can a December marathon in Northern Maine, organized by an eccentric long-distance runner, make a difference to a former mill town?

Kathryn Miles Down East Nov 2016 20min Permalink

Sports

The Unbreakable Bond

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.

Mina Kimes ESPN Oct 2019 15min Permalink

Sports Health

“It's the Dirty Little Secret That Everybody Knows About”

On sleep deprivation in the NBA.

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Baxter Holmes ESPN Oct 2019 20min Permalink

Business Crime Sports

Sinners, Scalpers and the Search for God

Inside an international Mormon ticket reselling ring.

Travis Pilling SB Nation, Epic Oct 2019 40min Permalink

Crime Sports

An Unseen Victim of the College Admissions Scandal

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

Sports Media

Inside TheMaven's Plan To Turn Sports Illustrated Into A Rickety Content Mill

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.

Laura Wagner, Kelsey McKinney, David Roth Deadspin Oct 2019 30min Permalink

Crime Sports

Jeff Hatch Was Dealing Fentanyl. And Helping Addicts. Then a Planned Visit from the VP Blew It All Up

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.

Chris Ballard Sports Illustrated Oct 2019 25min Permalink

Crime Sports

"You Won't Believe What Happened"

The untold story of Patriots owner Robert Kraft’s two visits to the Orchids of Asia Day Spa.

May Jeong Vanity Fair Oct 2019 30min Permalink

Best Article Sports Travel

Mavericks

A visit to the massive Northern California surf break.

Alice Gregory n+1 Oct 2013 15min Permalink

Sports

The Man Who Would Kill Horse Racing

One man’s quest to stop horse racing deaths.

Ryan Goldberg Deadspin Sep 2019 30min Permalink

Sports

Robyn Hightman Found a Life on Bikes

In an instant it was gone.

Peter Flax Bicycling Sep 2019 25min Permalink

Sports World

Home and Away: American Ballplayers Are Flooding the Mexican League

Mexico is now importing lots of its baseball talent from America.

Joseph Bien-Kahn Gen Sep 2019 Permalink

History Sports

How Two Kentucky Farmers Became Kings Of Croquet, The Sport That Never Wanted Them

The unlikely rise of the 1983 national croquet champions.

Julian Smith Deadspin Sep 2019 20min Permalink

Sports

A Second Chance

In 2007, 47 dogs were rescued from an illegal dogfighting ring organized by NFL quarterback Michael Vick. They could have been euthanized. Instead, they became family pets.

Emily Giambalvo Washington Post Sep 2019 20min Permalink

Sports

Why Women's Soccer Players Are Worried About Their Brains

The biggest stars in the world are pledging their brains. Young players are leaving the game with their destinies unfulfilled. The stories they tell spark fear and raise questions. And the science hasn’t even begun to provide answers.

Mirin Fader B/R Mag Sep 2019 20min Permalink

Sports Food Travel

Competitive Oyster Shucking Is Real, Decadent, And China's Best Party

Do not assume, just because there is champagne and whiskey and maybe, sometimes, drugs, that these shuckers aren’t also thinking long and hard, and often poetically, about their métier.

Noelle Mateer Deadspin Sep 2019 15min Permalink

Sports

Free Solo Climber Alex Honnold's Next Summit? The Rest of His Life

On life after you accomplish your lifelong goal.

Seth Wickersham ESPN Sep 2019 30min Permalink

Sports Travel

The Legend of Baltimore Jack

To some, Baltimore Jack’s choice to live off the grid was irresponsible. Others celebrated that he’d managed to break the shackles of convention. We look back on the life of an AT antihero.

Dan Koeppel Outside Sep 2019 30min Permalink

Sports Movies & TV

The Big Show Never Ends

How Dan Patrick and Keith Olbermann revolutionized sports broadcasting with SportsCenter.

Bryan Curtis The Ringer Sep 2019 25min Permalink

Sports

Keeping the Dream Alive

The W.N.B.A. is putting on some of the best pro basketball in America.

Kim Tingley New York Times Magazine Sep 2019 25min Permalink

Sports

New York City’s First Skateboarding Superstar

A profile of Tyshawn Jones, “one of the most exciting skateboarders in a generation.”

Willy Staley New York Times Magazine Aug 2019 20min Permalink

Sports

The Tragedy on Howse Peak

Three deaths in the mountains, and a community left to wonder: How close should we stand to our own mortality to feel alive?

Nick Heil Outside Aug 2019 20min Permalink

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