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The Growing Legend of Clayton Kershaw

It started with a meaningless pitch in spring training and just might end with a plaque in CooperstownClayton Kershaw was 19 years old the first time he took over the baseball world. It was a spring…
AUTHOR:Jonah Keri
PUBLISHED: May 8, 2013
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4610 words)

Out in the Great Alone

I landed in Anchorage in the middle of the night. The next morning, I drove an hour north to Wolf Lake Airport, a private airfield near Wasilla. You know those old photo-backdrop screens that little…
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4720 words)

The Marathon

It was what was left behind that wrung the heart as you walked through Copley Square in Boston while the sun fell at the end of a very bad day. Tables full of unopened bottled water. Piles of those…
PUBLISHED: April 16, 2013
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1693 words)

Director's Cut: 'The Man. Amen.' by Charles P. Pierce

When 20-year-old Tiger Woods went pro in August 1996 — and was instantly hailed as a transformative figure in the insular, terminally white world of professional golf — he wasn't merely…
PUBLISHED: April 11, 2013
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3042 words)

Lying Around With Brandon McCarthy

Image by Jonathan Zizzo /Buzzfeed Brandon McCarthy has some ideas for how a profile of himself should read. He knows the formula cold: a quirky intro that sets the tone and lays out the big idea;…
SOURCE:BuzzFeed
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4392 words)

Gentlemen, Gentlemen, Be of Good Cheer, for They Are Out There, and We Are in Here

Published in the April 2013 issue For as long as anyone can remember, Monday night has been Manly Night at the Playboy Mansion. A little after five o'clock, nine or ten of Hugh Hefner's best friends…
PUBLISHED: March 25, 2013
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1944 words)

OTL: Michael Jordan Has Not Left The Building

This story appears in ESPN The Magazine's Analytics issue. SUBSCRIBE TODAY » CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Five weeks before his 50th birthday, Michael Jordan sits behind his desk, overlooking a parking…
LENGTH: 31 minutes (7823 words)

Frank Ocean Can Fly

Frank Ocean, the 25-year-old singer who released the hit album "Channel Orange" in July 2012. Frank Ocean did not want to ride in my rented Ford Fusion; that much was clear. After I parked the car,…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 7, 2013
LENGTH: 24 minutes (6215 words)

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By Eli Saslow,  Published: DECEMBER 15, 8:18 PM ET       Aa
PUBLISHED: Dec. 15, 2012
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1715 words)
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