The next generation GM: Ryan McDonough and the Celtics are helping usher in a new age of player evaluation

It’s Big Monday in the Big East and No. 1-ranked Louisville is in town to play the University of Connecticut. The underdog Huskies are energized from the opening tip. The crowd is rocking with…
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4531 words)

No sleep ‘til Fairbanks: Following the 1,000-mile Yukon Quest dog sled race

Brent Sass was ready. His sled bag was loaded, and his dogs were screaming to run, flinging themselves forward against their harnesses, rearing into the air, barking and crying for the trail ahead.…
LENGTH: 21 minutes (5455 words)

Poster boys: How the Costacos Brothers built a wall art empire

SEATTLE, 1984 – It all began with Prince. Naturally. One morning in the home of his grandparent’s house that sat atop his home city, John Costacos – just 23 years old –…
LENGTH: 27 minutes (6933 words)

Branding Brooklyn

It's 9:37 p.m. on a late summer's Friday outside the modest housing project at the corner of Classon Avenue and Lefferts Place, in the gentrifying southwestern corner of Brooklyn’s Clinton…
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3683 words)

How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: A Remembrance

I've had guns pulled on me by four people under Central Mississippi skies — once by a white undercover cop, once by a young brother trying to rob me for the leftovers of a weak work-study check, once…
SOURCE:gawker.com
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4724 words)

LeBron James, Kentucky And The AAU Revolution

By Jonathan Tjarks - NBA Contributor
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3839 words)
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