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In an airless stateroom aboard the USS Kitty Hawk, I find my dead father. Somewhere off the Vietnamese coast, the roar of an F/A-18 Hornet shot from the carrier's number two catapult blasts me awake.…
PUBLISHED: June 10, 2013
LENGTH: 29 minutes (7389 words)

T-Mac and Agent Zero in China

For most of last November, the news that Gilbert Arenas had signed for the Chinese Basketball Association's Shanghai Sharks and Tracy McGrady had done the same with the Qingdao Eagles monopolized the…
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1779 words)

God Is Not Dead

He is now, as he was in his superhuman youth and his brief time on the Providence College campus, more or less the size of a normal person—not too tall, not dauntingly buff or otherwise…
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4079 words)

OTL: His Game, His Rules

BEHIND THE CLOSED doors of a Capitol Hill chamber, Roger Goodell sits on a panel with an Army general before a rapt audience of two dozen lawmakers. The NFL commissioner swaps ideas with four-star…
LENGTH: 26 minutes (6744 words)

Tinker To Evers To Chance ... ... To Me

The cemetery spreads across a green hillside above the small upstate city of Troy, N.Y., where shirt collars and steel were once manufactured along the east bank of the Hudson River, but where…
LENGTH: 2 minutes (587 words)
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Mom, There's a Dog Stapled to That Tree

Pay de Limón. Photo: Eric Nusbaum
PUBLISHED: Dec. 3, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (770 words)

Diverted Streams

In the days leading up to last February’s Super Bowl, United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement quietly seized the domains for a handful of websites that directed visitors to…
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2626 words)

Pommel Horses and Protestors

Inside a stuffy, ramshackle warehouse on the northern outskirts of Yemen’s capital, a dozen male gymnasts line up at the end of a tattered vaulting runway. Wedged into a tight corner on the…
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2824 words)
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Giant Size

Edouard Beaupré was the giantest giant in pro wrestling history. At eight feet and three inches, Beaupré was the fifth-tallest human being in recorded history, and he wrestled at a time…
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2581 words)
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