Dorsey High’s football program is about more than athletics

Under Coach Paul Knox, football offers a haven from the streets where players can learn to break free of tackles, on field and off.

Published: Dec 4, 2009
Length: 24 minutes (6,063 words)

2009 Sportsman Of The Year: Derek Jeter

It is not so much what he accomplished at 35—a fifth World Series ring capping a historic season, to be sure—as how the Yankees’ shortstop arrived at his iconic place. Being the ultimate team player and a role model synonymous with winning has brought him still another title: Sportsman of the Year.

Published: Dec 7, 2009
Length: 20 minutes (5,044 words)

Streaming will never stop downloading

Far from being a cure for the industry’s woes, substituting streams for downloads wastes bandwidth, reduces privacy and slows innovation

Source: The Guardian
Published: Dec 8, 2009
Length: 15 minutes (3,940 words)

Faux Friendship

William Deresiewicz discusses the shaky future of friendship.

Published: Dec 6, 2009
Length: 14 minutes (3,502 words)

I Could Fix That

Published: Dec 17, 2009
Length: 8 minutes (2,143 words)

The Man. Amen.

In the Book of Saint Earl of the Woods, let us now turn to the next chapter, verse 1997, in which the presumed messiah—halo, swoosh and all—is revealed to be, gasp! a 21-year-old kid

Source: GQ
Published: Apr 1, 1997
Length: 26 minutes (6,555 words)

I Live in a Van Down By Duke University

Source: Salon
Published: Dec 9, 2009
Length: 32 minutes (8,095 words)

Where to Find the Salvation of Tiger Woods

For one suddenly tortured cynic, at least, it’s close to home. Because if there’s not a geek playing a hound playing a perfect man in your family, the one being wrung out by the tabloids has still laid bare a new power for men who cheat: the power of the truth

Source: Esquire
Published: Dec 7, 2009
Length: 6 minutes (1,598 words)

The Genesis 2.0 Project

Compared with the market-driven, killer-app insta-culture of the Digital Age, the new Large Hadron Collider exists in a near-magical realm, a $9 billion cathedral of science that is apparently, in any practical sense, useless.

Source: Vanity Fair
Published: Jan 1, 2010
Length: 16 minutes (4,065 words)

The Gambler Who Blew $127 Million

Published: Dec 5, 2009
Length: 11 minutes (2,761 words)