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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)

The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist

On the morning of July 30, 2012, an accountant named Michel Gauvreau arrived at the Global Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve, housed in a huge red brick warehouse on the side of the Trans-Canadian…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 2, 2013
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3074 words)

“Why’s this so good?” No. 66: Eli Sanders and the bravest woman in Seattle

by Mary Rajkumar | November 27, 2012 The friend who first sent me “The Bravest Woman in Seattle” told me it was stunning but also so unsettling that I should not read it before going to…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 27, 2012
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1054 words)

Deadhead

One night in the winter of 1996, Rob Eaton, a recording engineer who’d worked with Duran Duran and Pat Metheny, showed up at the home of a high-school chemistry teacher in Petaluma, California. Eaton…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 26, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (967 words)

Muse: 'We like pushing it as far as we can'

Muse on stage in Oslo, 25 October 2009. Photograph: Andy Hall for the Observer Ever since the early days of Muse, frontman Matt Bellamy and drummer Dom Howard have shared a running joke about…
PUBLISHED: Sept. 30, 2012
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2653 words)

“Why’s This So Good?” No. 54: John Jeremiah Sullivan and partisan politics

by Ann Friedman | August 14, 2012 Politics should, in theory, be the subject of some of the most compelling narrative journalism. There’s built-in drama! There are winners and losers! The…
PUBLISHED: Aug. 14, 2012
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1034 words)

Simon Reynolds interviews Greil Marcus

Earlier this year I visited Greil Marcus, widely considered the greatest living rock writer, at his home on the border between Berkeley and Oakland to profile him for the British newspaper The…
LENGTH: 32 minutes (8229 words)

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Nobody Says I Love You Anymore

When I moved from Manhattan back to my hometown of Dallas last June, people asked the same question: “Why?” I was accustomed to New Yorkers taking broad swipes at my home state, but I…
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3025 words)
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