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Not just another game: When the USMNT played Mexico in 1980, everything changed

Steve Moyers rose up into the dark Florida sky, on the evening of Nov. 23, 1980, his hair soaked with perspiration and the steady rain that fell from above. The 24-year-old forward, who had recently…
LENGTH: 27 minutes (6820 words)

Don’t Cry for Me, Venezuela

Ch vez, un hombre que anda por ah : Una entrevista con Hugo Ch vez by Aleida Guevara Ocean Press, 145 pp., $14.95 Hugo Ch vez sin uniforme: Una historia
PUBLISHED: Oct. 6, 2005
LENGTH: 2 minutes (554 words)

“Why’s this so good?” No. 61: John McPhee and the archdruid

by Adam Hochschild | October 2, 2012 The New Journalism of the 1960s and 1970s – by Tom Wolfe, Hunter Thompson, and others – made the biggest collective splash in recent American…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 2, 2012
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3477 words)

Ultimate Fighting vs. math: no holds barred

Nick Diaz had the guy on the floor, crawling backwards like a scared crab. As he approached, muscles gleaming, mouth in a menacing snarl, the 9,000 keyed up fans gathered in Las Vegas for the…
PUBLISHED: April 7, 2012
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2094 words)

Under Siege

LENGTH: 20 minutes (5148 words)

The Fragile Teenage Brain

If the sport of football ever dies, it will die from the outside in. It won't be undone by a labor lockout or a broken business model — football owners know how to make money. Instead, the…
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4050 words)

History and Details of Claude Neal Lynching

The 1934 Claude Neal lynching in Marianna, Florida is one of the most notorious spectacle lynchings in history. An unidentified committee of six brutally tortured and killed Claude Neal before…

Long Story Shortlist, First Edition

This is the debut of a regular feature: a collection of the weeks best long-form journalism published in The Times, as selected by our editors. We will also include one pick from The Timess archives.…
AUTHOR:THE STAFF
PUBLISHED: July 8, 2011
LENGTH: 1 minutes (457 words)

Climbers

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PUBLISHED: July 11, 2011
LENGTH: 2 minutes (610 words)
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