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Life and death: The true cost of inequality in high school football
How race and class puts some athletes in greater danger from the game.
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Caster Semenya and the cruel history of contested black femininity
World Athletics’ regulations targeting Caster Semenya are rooted in a long legacy of black bodies being held to white standards.
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Joel Dahmen joins Arnold Palmer, John Daly gaining PGA Tour legendary status through perseverance and whiskey
PGA Tour fan favorite, Dahmen keeps golf fun. Now he’s partnering with Bushmills Irish Whiskey as a whiskey caddie to create ‘Joel’s Juicy Lie.’
Why chiseled boxers lose, and flabby boxers win
In boxing, aesthetics don’t count for much.
The women of the Scottish Highland games
Why women are flocking to one of the oldest, most "manly" sports in the world.
Inside the heartwarming world of Hot Wheels collecting
What seems like a simple hobby can take you across the world.
See you soon, Hannah Roberts
How one of Team USA’s potential Olympic stars is handling the wait.
The legend of King Handles and The Notic
The rise and fall, and rise again, of one of streetball’s greatest crews.
The secret life of Floyd Lippencott Jr.
To hide his career from his father, drag racer Bob Muravez assumed the name Floyd Lippencott Jr. But he couldn’t outrun the truth.
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The NBA has a chemistry problem
How NBA teams struggle to create chemistry in an era when rosters are turning over faster than ever.
‘We just made history’: The story of hockey’s first ever Team Trans
How a group of 17 trans athletes made history last November.
The Fukushima surf revival
How surfing was revived alongside a community in the wake of a tsunami and nuclear disaster.
The Girl in the Huddle
How Elinor Kaine Penna became a pioneering pro football writer in an industry where women weren’t welcome
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Why a dead English football club lives on
Jorge Luis Borges once claimed that "football is only popular because stupidity is." He couldn’t foresee the imagination and resiliency of Bury FC’s community.
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The gore, guts and horror of an NFL fumble pile
Stories from the bottom of the most lawless play in sports.
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Kaurs, Singhs and Kings
How a ‘Sikh Heritage Night’ at a Sacramento Kings game sparked a movement against bigotry
Walter McCarty has put Evansville back on the map
Evansville Aces basketball was once a small college powerhouse. Walter McCarty is working on bringing that energy back.
How Frank Ntilikina’s summer with France might have revived his NBA career
How France basketball embraced Frank Ntilikina and helped him learn to trust himself.
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I spent years scalping tickets and evading police. My journey to hell and back.
This is my story.
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What the future of the American ballpark should look like
The American ballpark is in decline. Let’s build it back up.
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Gus Johnson wants to live in the present
The man whose voice will boom throughout history couldn’t be enjoying the present more.
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The Las Vegas Aces were built to succeed. (And it’s working.)
In only its second year in the WNBA, the Aces are thriving on and off the court.
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Japanese basketball’s ‘Chosen One’ is playing in the G League
Yuta Watanabe may be toiling in the G League, but "Yuta-mania" and hope for the future of Japanese basketball are still alive.
How the Canadian Women’s Hockey League fell apart
The CWHL shuttered with a phone call. Now the players, coaches, and GMs who were left in the cold are trying to determine what the future of their sport should be.
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Chair shots to the head in wrestling are an unnecessary risk with permanent consequences
AEW’s mission is to support its wrestlers. Allowing unprotected chair shots flies in the face of that.
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The secret art of winning an NHL faceoff
Hockey faceoffs have historically been about center vs. center, but winger vs. winger may be just as important. It’s the pivotal battle you likely missed.
Courtney Williams is showing the WNBA how to let loose
Few people saw Courtney Williams coming. Now she’s bending the WNBA to her joy.
The Kentucky Derby is Louisville’s 2-week bender
Louisville is your typical, boring, mid-size city. Then the Kentucky Derby happens.
We got a fragrance expert to review Michael Jordan’s failed cologne from the 90s
Here’s what we learned.
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Inside Oscar Gamble’s Afro
How a fantasy baseball league of pioneering indie rock heroes is just like yours.
