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espn.com April 18, 2019
Michelin restaurants and fabulous wines: Inside the secret team dinners that have built the Spurs' dynasty

The server is speaking to a man named Jeremy Threat -- and from the tone in his voice, something is clearly amiss. Threat hustles back to the main dining room of Spataro Restaurant & Bar, an Italian restaurant in Sacramento, California, that has been overrun by the San Antonio Spurs.
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espn.com April 20, 2019
Lowe: James Harden is breaking the blueprint that embarrassed him

What James Harden has done to the Utah Jazz through two blowouts goes back to his greatest humiliation -- Harden's meltdown, and Houston's collective disintegration, against the San Antonio Spurs in the 2017 conference semifinals.
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theringer.com April 22, 2019
The Race to Make the NFL Draft an Exact Science

Since last fall, I have reviewed material from the analytics databases of a handful of NFL teams relating to last year’s draft. The one commonality between all of them is they made me feel stupid regarding both football and math. The difference between them is everything else.
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profootballtalk.nbcsports.com April 22, 2019
FMIA Mock Draft: Four Trades, Four QBs and the 2019 No. 1 Pick Will Be…

Interesting mock draft dropped Sunday morning in the Los Angeles Times.
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theguardian.com April 22, 2019
Is there a single Manchester United player the fans would be sad to lose?

So that’s the team Liverpool are banking on to win them the title? There could have been little pleasure for Liverpool fans in watching Manchester United being gubbed by their Everton on Sunday, just a desperate hope that there will be a reaction, that the shame of such a limp performance will som
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espn.com April 21, 2019
Drafting Patrick Mahomes: How the Chiefs outmaneuvered the NFL

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- In the moments leading up to the start of the 2017 NFL draft, sports agent Leigh Steinberg sat with relative calm at a party thrown by his client, Patrick Mahomes.
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nytimes.com April 16, 2019
A Genius in Full Bloom, Lionel Messi Lifts Barcelona

BARCELONA, Spain — Still, they gasp.
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vanityfair.com April 19, 2019
The Church of Living Dangerously: How One of America’s Biggest Pastors Became a Drug Runner for a Mexican Cartel

A little after five A.M. on December 11, 2017, a gray Volkswagen Passat inched through the darkness of Tijuana toward the brightly lit Customs and Border Protection port of entry at San Ysidro, California.
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fivethirtyeight.com April 22, 2019
It’s Time To Talk About Russell Westbrook

There was a moment in the fourth quarter Sunday night, just before the Thunder officially found their backs against the playoff wall, when Russell Westbrook had a decision to make.
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theguardian.com April 21, 2019
Liverpool and Manchester City are both deserving of title-winners’ confetti

And still they come. It is one of football’s great truisms that the league table never lies. But it can tell the odd half- truth.
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aerogrammestudio.com February 24, 2015
Stephen King’s “Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully – in Ten Minutes”

We came across the following article by Stephen King a little while ago on a number of different websites. We believe it was originally published in a 1986 edition of The Writer magazine and republished in the 1988 edition of The Writer’s Handbook.
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jamesclear.com August 15, 2013
Lessons on Success and Deliberate Practice from Mozart, Picasso, and Kobe Bryant

How long does it take to become elite at your craft? And what do the people who master their goals do differently than the rest of us? That's what John Hayes, a cognitive psychology professor at Carnegie Mellon University, wanted to know.
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newyorker.com June 4, 2016
The Outsized Life of Muhammad Ali

What a loss to suffer, even if for years you knew it was coming.
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sbnation.com April 10, 2014
Meet the Bag Man

The Bag Man excuses himself to make a call outside, on his "other phone," to arrange delivery of $500 in cash to a visiting recruit. The player is rated No. 1 at his position nationally and on his way into town.
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sbnation.com June 18, 2014
The Essence of Velocity

It had been a good meeting as far as Perry Husband was concerned. The 15 minutes he had been promised to convince the Houston Astros' team brass to fundamentally revamp their organizational approach to pitching had turned into close to an hour.
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npr.org December 10, 2018
Exercise Wins: Fit Seniors Can Have Hearts That Look 30 Years Younger

We know we need to exercise for our health, but a lifelong exercise habit may also help us feel younger and stay stronger well into our senior years.
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theatlantic.com February 15, 2018
What Color Is a Tennis Ball?

It seemed like an easy question. The query came from a Twitter poll I spotted on my news feed last week, from user @cgpgrey. “Please help resolve a marital dispute,” @cgpgrey wrote. “You would describe the color of a tennis ball as:” green, yellow, or other.
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longreads.com March 19, 2019
Is It Ever Too Late to Pursue a Dream?

Dry heaves racked Dan Stoddard’s body as he bent his 6-foot-8, 325-plus-pound frame awkwardly over a toilet, shaking as he vomited up the Gatorade and other fluids he had consumed in an attempt to stave off dehydration.
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jamesclear.com October 28, 2013
Forget About Setting Goals. Focus on This Instead.

This article is an excerpt from Atomic Habits, my New York Times bestselling book.
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npr.org February 25, 2019
Anger Can Be Contagious — Here's How To Stop The Spread

Even if you're not aware of it, it's likely that your emotions will influence someone around you today. This can happen during our most basic exchanges, say on your commute to work. "If someone smiles at you, you smile back at them," says sociologist Nicholas Christakis of Yale University.
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wired.com December 12, 2016
Inside Nike’s Quest for the Impossible: a Two-Hour Marathon

The world record for a marathon, set by Dennis Kimetto of Kenya in Berlin in September 2014, stands at two hours, two minutes, and 57 seconds. If that number means nothing to you, understand this: running 26.2 miles in 2:02:57 is absurdly fast.
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gq.com July 2, 2018
In Praise of Being Washed

You spent years building up something—taste, experience, judgment. You were trying to like what you saw in the mirror, as all ambitious people try to do. What I am saying is, perhaps you actually like that person now. Perhaps you could use the mirror less.
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nytimes.com January 26, 2015
Tom Brady Cannot Stop

Last July, a few weeks before the New England Patriots started training camp, I got a call from Donald Yee, the agent in Los Angeles who has represented Tom Brady since he entered the N.F.L. in 2000.
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wired.com April 11, 2019
How the Boston Marathon Messes With Runners to Slow Them Down

The Boston Marathon course looks like it should be fast. You start out in the distant suburb of Hopkinton—elevation 490 feet above sea level—and then cruise steadily downhill until about mile 9. The finish line has an elevation of a mere 10 feet above Boston Harbor.
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theringer.com February 27, 2019
The Exile of Rick Pitino

What do you mean? A bounty? This was the first story Rick Pitino told me in Athens. It was a good one, and it foreshadowed the madness yet to come. Pitino has lots of stories and, these days, lots of time to tell them.
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theatlantic.com November 28, 2018
How Creed Forever Changed the Rocky Series

Updated at 11:33 a.m. Rocky Balboa sits in a Philly bar as Apollo Creed, in a three-piece suit, holds forth on a grainy black-and-white TV screen. The bartender complains about the “jig clown” on the screen, and asks where the “real fighters” have gone.
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seattletimes.com April 15, 2019
What an Olympic medalist, homeless in Seattle, wants you to know

When Rebecca Twigg was 7, she rode a bike for the first time. There were no training wheels, but Twigg took off like she’d done it in a previous life. She fell only when she realized she didn’t know how to stop, and steered into a wall.
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bleacherreport.com April 4, 2019
What Happened in Green Bay

There had to be a breaking point. An incident, an argument, a loss, a moment that doomed the football marriage of Aaron Rodgers and Mike McCarthy.
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espn.com April 9, 2019
The truth about Michael Jordan's MLB prospects: 'I swear, he was going to the majors'

He has made it very exciting tonight. With the Barons leading 5-1, Jordan steps in for the fourth time ... two of his three at-bats were near homers ...
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theringer.com January 14, 2019
Baseball Is Broken. Can Anything Short of a Strike Fix It?

Last week, the top catcher on the free-agent market, Yasmani Grandal, signed with the Brewers for just one year and $18.25 million, barely eclipsing the qualifying offer he rejected from the Dodgers in November.
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theringer.com December 13, 2018
The Great NFL Heist: How Fox Paid for and Changed Football Forever

The strangest thing about Joe Buck and Troy Aikman calling an NFL game for Fox is how normal it feels. Twenty-five years ago this month, Fox took over pro football. It didn’t feel normal. It felt like an unnatural cultural event.
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theplayerstribune.com June 18, 2018
I've Got Some Things to Say

Iremember the exact moment I knew we were broke. I can still picture my mum at the refrigerator and the look on her face. I was six years old, and I came home for lunch during our break at school. My mum had the same thing on the menu every single day: Bread and milk.
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theringer.com December 24, 2018
We Are Witnessing the Future of LeBron James

There was a quaint period in the not-so-distant past when we’d imagine the fading days of LeBron James’s NBA career and give it a familiar shape based on predictive deduction.
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chicagomag.com January 29, 2019
How an Olympic Hopeful Robbed 26 Banks on His Bike

This article is published in partnership with Epic Magazine. The man in the baseball cap and sunglasses waited for the teller to notice him. The morning of May 26, 2000, was quiet inside the LaSalle Bank in suburban Highland Park.
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espn.com March 23, 2016
You won't believe how Nike lost Steph to Under Armour

IT'S OCT. 7, 2015, and the Cavs are hosting the Hawks in Cincinnati. It's the NBA preseason, a nothing game, really -- save for one detail: LeBron James is debuting his new, flashy signature sneaker, the LeBron 13.
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theplayerstribune.com November 27, 2018
Earning My Smile

Takes a man to admit that, I think. Let me tell you about one that changed my life.
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golf.com April 4, 2016
What happened to Tiger Woods? It’s the most vexing question in sports

On Thanksgiving night in 2009, Tiger Woods’s meticulously crafted image was shattered in a single-car accident outside of his home in Windermere, Fla.
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medium.com September 23, 2017
Consistency Beats Talent, Luck, Good Intentions, and Even Quality

There are so many people in the world that are so much more talented than you. They’re sexier. Smarter. Richer. More creative. More likable, more charming, better-connected, and better-looking.
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theringer.com November 3, 2016
The Curious Have Won

The Great Analytics War ended at 48 minutes after midnight on November 3, 2016. The terms were unconditional surrender. The losing generals were not able to offer their surrender in person; most of them had long since departed the front for the unemployment line.
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espn.com July 30, 2013
OTL: Trouble with Johnny Manziel

Editors' note: This story includes mature subject matter and language. FOUR DAYS AFTER the tweet, Johnny Manziel did what many boys do when they're in trouble. He went home.
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theringer.com April 4, 2019
The LeBron Paradox

One of the strangest aspects of LeBron James’s deeply strange career is the way it seems to occupy two realities at once.
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theringer.com October 10, 2016
A Flick of the Wrist

After a long summer of topless championship parades, free-agency meetings in the Hamptons, Snapchat mishaps, and gold medals, the NBA is finally, truly, really, almost back. The start of training camp marks the beginning of our NBA Preview. This is How Basketball Works Week.
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grantland.com April 24, 2015
The Rise and Rise (and Rise) of Stephen Curry: The Wildly Miraculous and Quietly Inevitable Success of Golden State’s Point Guard

There are slideshows on the Internet of the house, stately and fountained, where Stephen Curry lived as a boy — the house his parents built in 1996, the year Steph turned 8, on a 16-acre plot a few minutes’ drive from the center of Charlotte, North Carolina. It’s a big house, six bedrooms.
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espn.com January 24, 2019
Inside the Browns' front office, where hope and history collide

IN LATE OCTOBER, owners Jimmy and Dee Haslam summoned all Cleveland Browns employees to the auditorium at team headquarters for a familiar meeting. It was to announce another major shake-up, this time the firing of head coach Hue Jackson.
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theringer.com March 19, 2019
Mike Trout Isn’t Worth $430 Million—He’s Worth Much More

Angels center fielder and divine baseball being Mike Trout is reportedly close to finalizing an extension that will pay him more than $426.5 million over 12 years.
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espn.com April 12, 2019
A star is built: Giannis is the best basketball player alive

At 24 years old, Giannis Antetokounmpo is the best basketball player in the world. He is the best offensive player on a top-five NBA offense. He's the best defensive player on the No. 1 defense.
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espn.com March 22, 2017
Inside the 'Tinderization' of today's NBA

This story appears in ESPN The Magazine's Analytics Issue. Subscribe today! The gatekeeper of America's most popular nightclub is a 33-year-old man known to NBA players simply as "Purple." And tonight he's busy.
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fs.blog June 11, 2014
Avoiding Stupidity is Easier than Seeking Brilliance

Simon Ramo, a scientist and statistician, wrote a fascinating little book that few people have bothered to read: Extraordinary Tennis Ordinary Players. The book isn’t fascinating because I love tennis. I don’t.
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hbr.org October 1, 2013
Ferguson’s Formula

Some call him the greatest coach in history. Before retiring in May 2013, Sir Alex Ferguson spent 26 seasons as the manager of Manchester United, the English football (soccer) club that ranks among the most successful and valuable franchises in sports.
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grantland.com April 6, 2015
1990s Orlando Magic Oral History

“Our owner, Rich DeVos, said, ‘Why not us? Why not now?’ Everybody was saying we’re too young to win a championship. We hadn’t suffered enough. Little did we know, we would be suffering by the end.” —Tree Rollins They were destined for greatness.
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theringer.com September 5, 2018
Nike’s Big Gamble on Colin Kaepernick

For the past two years, Nike has kept Colin Kaepernick on the bench despite an endorsement partnership that dates back to 2011.
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sbnation.com May 30, 2018
Inside the NCAA's years-long, twisting investigation into Mississippi football

No matter what else happens, remember the T-shirts. It’s easy for them to get lost in this whole saga. There are overwhelming distractions to come. But don’t forget about the T-shirts, because nothing else will matter when we’re done.
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outsideonline.com November 25, 2018
Murder on a Mountain Bike

Around 10 A.M. on Friday, September 15, 2017, Ginger Chase-Watkins called the Old Town Bike Shop in Colorado Springs looking for her husband, Tim Watkins. She hadn’t heard from him in more than 24 hours.
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bleacherreport.com November 15, 2017
The Secret (but Healthy!) Diet Powering Kyrie and the NBA

The M-V-P chants shower Kyrie Irving as he toes the line for two free throws. The point guard is putting the finishing touches on a 35-point masterpiece against the Atlanta Hawks, and the crowd bellows with praise from every corner of the arena.
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espn.co.uk August 3, 2012
Kurkjian: What it feels like to get hit by a pitch

A baseball is a wondrous little thing. It weighs 6 ounces -- the same as an apple -- and is the perfect size and shape for the hand. It is the ideal home for the proudest autographs, so white and pristine, resting on the mantel or in the trophy case.
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theringer.com July 26, 2016
The Best Player in the NFL Is Also the Weirdest

"In the next 5,000 years there won’t be any more freckles or red hair," says Denver Broncos linebacker Von Miller. "That’s the way humans are evolving." Miller is sitting in Venice, California, during an offseason in which he’s become one of the most famous athletes in America.
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theguardian.com December 22, 2015
The devil and José Mourinho

José Mourinho’s whole career seems to be one long revenge plot. Despite his great success, his various reigns have all ended in spectacular discord.
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bloomberg.com March 30, 2017
ESPN Has Seen the Future of TV and They’re Not Really Into It

ESPN broke ground on this $175 million, 194,000-square-foot facility, called Digital Center 2, in 2011. It was billed by executives as “future-proof,” capable of adapting to any possible change in the way people watch sports. At the time, ESPN looked indestructible.
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slate.com February 15, 2019
How Colin Kaepernick Beat the NFL

On Friday, the NFL and representatives for Colin Kaepernick and Eric Reid announced that they had settled a grievance suit with the two players over alleged collusion to keep them out of the league because of their protests during the anthem.
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vox.com November 12, 2015
I spent 2 years cleaning houses. What I saw makes me never want to be rich.

Let me tell you something you already know: Your housekeeper spies on you. We work alone. We get bored. What do you expect?
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newyorker.com January 28, 2019
Why Tony Romo Is a Genius at Football Commentary

Traditionally, in sports broadcasting, a color commentator’s job is to explain to viewers what they just saw. But, during the past few weeks of N.F.L.
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theringer.com January 2, 2019
The Curse of a Salary-Cap-Eating Quarterback

In 1966, San Francisco 49ers star quarterback John Brodie received a contract pitch from the Houston Oilers: “We can set things up so that if you want to, all you’ll ever have to do is play golf and drink beer and gamble,” Oilers general manager Don Klosterman told him, according to the book A
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nytimes.com May 2, 2018
Washington Redskins Cheerleaders Describe Topless Photo Shoot and Uneasy Night Out

When the Washington Redskins took their cheerleading squad to Costa Rica in 2013 for a calendar photo shoot, the first cause for concern among the cheerleaders came when Redskins officials collected their passports upon arrival at the resort, depriving them of their official identification.
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theringer.com March 4, 2019
We Got Our Hands on 73,000 Never-Before-Seen MLB Scouting Reports. Here’s What We Learned.

What would we learn if we could see what an MLB team’s scouts saw? For the first time, we can: A former member of the Cincinnati Reds front office provided The Ringer with a copy of the Reds’ scouting database from between 1991 and 2003, consisting of more than 73,000 reports.
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bleacherreport.com October 1, 2018
Is Social Media Addiction in the NBA Out of Control?

This summer, JJ Redick wanted a reset. He had been telling himself that he would do it for several years but couldn't bring himself to follow through at first. Social media was his way of staying current with the news and keeping up with the reactions and the reactions to the reactions.
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slate.com December 6, 2016
Basketball’s Nerd King

Reprinted from The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds. Copyright © 2017 by Michael Lewis. With permission of the publisher, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. All rights reserved
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buzzfeednews.com January 17, 2016
The Tennis Racket

Betting worth billions. Elite players. Violent threats. Covert messages with Sicilian gamblers. And suspicious matches at Wimbledon. Leaked files expose match-fixing evidence that tennis authorities have kept secret for years.
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outsideonline.com May 4, 2018
The Marathon World Record Holder the World Forgot

If you crossed paths with Maureen Wilton Mancuso in Toronto, it would be easy to give nothing more than a passing glance to the 64-year-old woman running trails with her dogs.
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qz.com July 2, 2017
I went from sedentary academic to 100-mile marathon runner—thanks to the science of self-control

Most people have days they’ll never forget. For me, that day is April 26, 2011. It was my first time appearing on National Public Radio. As part of the program All Things Considered, host Michele Norris interviewed me about my research that suggested increasing narcissism in pop music lyrics.
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slate.com November 28, 2018
The 40 Greatest Family Games

For some families, game nights are at the very core of who they are and how they live together.
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wbur.org December 14, 2018
My Dad's Friendship With Charles Barkley14:24

Like this story? Sign up for Only A Game's newsletter and subscribe to the podcast. When Charles Barkley's mother, Charcey Glenn, passed away in June 2015, Barkley's hometown of Leeds, Alabama, came to the funeral to pay respects. But there was also an unexpected guest.
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theringer.com December 19, 2018
The NFL’s Analytics Revolution Has Arrived

The football analytics revolution may not be obvious, but it is happening in front of you all the time. There is an NFL team that plans to run more offensive plays to the side of the field farthest from its opponent’s bench.
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espn.com February 28, 2018
How Steph Curry leads like no other NBA superstar

It was exactly a year ago when teammates first noticed a change in Stephen Curry. The Golden State Warriors had just witnessed Kevin Durant suffer a knee injury, which immediately cast doubt on the team's chances of advancing to the NBA Finals for a third consecutive year.
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wired.com November 2, 2018
An Aging Marathoner Tries to Run Fast After 40

Running is the most elemental sport. The equipment is simple: shoes, socks, shorts, shirt. The activity is natural. We once ran after antelopes on the savannah, and we now run around playgrounds as kids. For the most part, we compete against ourselves.
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nytimes.com August 25, 2015
The Meaning of Serena Williams

There is no more exuberant winner than Serena Williams. She leaps into the air, she laughs, she grins, she pumps her fist, she points her index finger to the sky, signaling she’s No. 1. Her joy is palpable. It brings me to my feet, and I grin right back at her, as if I’ve won something, too.
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outsideonline.com June 19, 2018
The Last Days of Marc-André Leclerc

In the summer of 2016, I was researching the northwest face of the Devil’s Thumb, an infamous peak in southeast Alaska chronicled in Eiger Dreams, by Jon Krakauer.
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espn.com October 19, 2016
Golden State's Draymond Green problem

This story appears in ESPN The Magazine's October 31 NBA Preview Issue. Subscribe today! Editor's note: This story contains explicit language.
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nytimes.com April 12, 2019
Stephen Curry Has a Popcorn Problem

Stephen Curry’s dazzling pregame shooting sessions have become a dynasty of their own throughout a half-decade of dominance for the Golden State Warriors. Dribbling two balls at once. Swish after swish from steps inside the half-court stripe.
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longreads.com March 20, 2019
A Walk On The Wild Side: The Pete Ripmaster Journey

“I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardsh
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nytimes.com August 24, 2017
How Roger Federer Upgraded His Game

Wonder Year Near the end of a conversation with Roger Federer earlier this month, in a small dining room that had been set aside for us off the lobby of the Mount Stephen Hotel in Montreal, I asked if he happened to catch the final poignant seconds of Usain Bolt’s remarkable career as a solo runne
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bloomberg.com February 12, 2019
Things I Never Knew About Skiing Until I Was a Private Instructor in Aspen

Slopeside shenanigans, gallons of sprayed Champagne, celebrities behaving badly, and… ski gangs? It’s all in a day’s work at Aspen. In the late 1800s, as gold miners moved through the Colorado Rockies, they came upon the would-be ski resort of Aspen, with Mount Sopris as its crown jewel.
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nytimes.com August 20, 2006
Roger Federer as Religious Experience

Almost anyone who loves tennis and follows the men’s tour on television has, over the last few years, had what might be termed Federer Moments.
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newyorker.com August 26, 2013
Nick Kyrgios, the Reluctant Rising Star of Tennis

Nick Kyrgios, the twentieth-ranked tennis player in the world, stepped to the baseline. He briskly bounced the ball and rocked forward to begin his serve, his arms swinging. He has a narrow waist and strong shoulders, a greyhound’s look, and a greyhound’s air of languid indifference.
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si.com August 1, 2017
The Complicated Life and Death of Hideki Irabu

This story appears in the Aug. 7, 2017, edition of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. Subscribe to the magazine here. No one had noticed anybody come or go for days when, just after 4 p.m.
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nytimes.com December 18, 2017
Deliverance From 27,000 Feet

Five Sherpas surrounded the frozen corpse. They swung axes at the body’s edges, trying to pry it from its icy tomb. They knocked chunks of snow from the body, and the shattered pieces skittered down the mountain.
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espn.com December 7, 2018
How Kareem Hunt's Chiefs career crashed after a night out

THE FEBRUARY NIGHT that ended Kareem Hunt's career with the Kansas City Chiefs -- and landed the NFL in yet another controversy involving an act of violence against a woman and captured by a security camera -- might have culminated with Hunt kicking a woman in the hall of a luxury hotel, but it bega
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theringer.com May 30, 2018
The Curious Case of Bryan Colangelo and the Secret Twitter Account

Update, June 7: Philadelphia 76ers president of basketball operations and general manager Bryan Colangelo has resigned from the team.
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news.nationalgeographic.com July 30, 2017
We Evolved to Run—But We're Doing It All Wrong

These days, running seems to have little to do with survival—it’s all about sport watches and burning calories.
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longreads.com January 17, 2017
Michael Joyce’s Second Act

Michael Joyce climbs into his father’s station wagon on a Sunday afternoon, the light of southern California glowing soft and gold. Joyce is tiny and cherubic, his face freckled and full, his hair a shock of strawberry blonde.
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espn.com February 10, 2019
OTL: The inside story of how Bob Costas got yanked from the Super Bowl

IN DECEMBER 2015, the movie "Concussion" was set for a Christmas Day release in nearly 3,000 theaters across America. The film told the story of the NFL's attempts to discredit research tying brain damage to football, and Bob Costas wanted to address it on national television.
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outsideonline.com April 11, 2018
Rescue on the Killer Mountain

It was already late—just one hour before sunset on January 25, 2018—and they had yet to reach the summit. The shadows of the high Himalayan peaks were growing longer every second, covering the surrounding valleys with a dark veil and turning the air so cold that every breath became painful.
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jamesclear.com January 23, 2017
The Beginner’s Guide to Deliberate Practice

Hogan was one of the greatest golfers of the 20th century, an accomplishment he achieved through tireless repetition. He simply loved to practice. Hogan said, “I couldn't wait to get up in the morning so I could hit balls.
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theringer.com October 29, 2018
Klay on Klay: The Warriors Guard on the Hidden Art and Craft of His Game

Klay Thompson was experiencing nostalgia for his Washington State school days. I was showing him his own stats on a spreadsheet because I wanted to see whether he found the numbers as fascinating as I did.
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grantland.com August 6, 2015
The End of the Hoop Dream: A Journey to the Extreme Fringe of International Basketball

Fueled by desperation and long-shot hopes, a twentysomething huckster agent leads 10 end-of-the-line players on a European exposure tour. It could be their final chance at basketball glory, but will anyone buy what he’s selling? Jon Solomon has the same birthday as Michael Jordan.
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nymag.com November 25, 2017
Is This the End of the NFL?

A few weekends ago, at a seersucker-in-November southern horse-racing event I attended with some lovely and friendly people who will nevertheless be the first ones taken out when the revolution comes, a family friend, an older white man, asked me what I, the one sportswriter he knew, thought of the
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thecut.com September 9, 2018
Serena Williams and the Game That Can’t Be Won (Yet)

I don’t care much about the rules of tennis that Serena Williams was accused of violating at Saturday night’s U.S. Open final.
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espn.com August 18, 2014
Matthew Berry's Draft Day manifesto

Welcome. Pull up a chair. May I take your drink order? Because we're gonna be here a while. I've given this thing a complete rewrite, but some things remain the same: It's very long, and my editor takes a week's vacation after he's done with it.
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nytimes.com December 12, 2018
He Helped Build an Artists’ Utopia. Now He Faces Trial for 36 Deaths There.

Once a week, Max Harris is allowed to leave his 6-by-12-foot cell to go outside.
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slate.com May 31, 2016
Don’t Run a Marathon

Have we devised any greater waste of time and energy than the running of the marathon? I’m asking for a friend. This friend will soon be training for the New York City Marathon, and he’ll be going at it for a span of 20 weeks.
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jamesclear.com October 28, 2013
Forget About Setting Goals. Focus on This Instead.

This article is an excerpt from Atomic Habits, my New York Times bestselling book.
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outsideonline.com December 20, 2018
Life and Death on El Capitan

Jason Wells’s phone buzzed as photos of crumpled climbing garb popped onto his screen. “Knickers, pants, and 2 of socks, underware [sic], shirt, fleece. Also puffy and new with tags…rain jacket,” wrote Tim Klein in an accompanying text message. It was Thursday May 31, 2018.
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nytimes.com February 13, 2009
The No-Stats All-Star

Out of Duke University. . . . A 6-foot-8-inch forward. . . . He had more or less admitted to me that this part of his job left him cold.
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theatlantic.com November 6, 2018
American Meritocracy Is Killing Youth Sports

The state of youth sports in America is either booming or suffering, depending on which box score you’re checking. You could follow the money.
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nytimes.com October 4, 2018
Yuki Kawauchi Is Distance Running’s Elite Oddball

KUKI, Japan — Even from two blocks away the stride was familiar — muscular, insistent, arms low and wide — and the runner could be only one person, Yuki Kawauchi, improbable winner of the 2018 Boston Marathon, hamburger connoisseur and fastest man in a panda costume.
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