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Why Do We Turn Some People Into Heroes And Others Into Villains In Sports?

Documentary filmmaker Jonathan Hock wants you to confront your love or hate for John Calipari by Jeremy Repanich

Sports Fans Need To Get A Grip

ESPN’s Mike Greenberg on how fan behavior is getting worse and what can be done to improve it by Justin Tejada

The Mothers Who Lost Their Children To Police Brutality “It tore my world apart. The same people who are supposed to help took my child's life” They loved Jordan Edwards, Michael Brown, and Trayvon Martin better than anyone. Now they’re the “wrong” kind of murder victim

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Britni De La Cretaz
The Washington Post Just Became The First Major Newspaper With Women Covering Every Sports Beat “It happened that way by chance, more than anything else”

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Anya Alvarez
The San Francisco Giants Think These Headphones Will Help Them Win Halo Neuroscience claims their brain-stimulating headsets will make the team’s practices more effective Halo Neuroscience claims their brain-stimulating headsets will make the team’s practices more effective

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Joseph Misulonas

This Restaurant Charges Rich People And Poor People Differently How—and why—do they get away with it? They’re allowed to give different prices for the same food

Food

Tasbeeh Herwees
Why Doctors Soon Might Be Prescribing Video Games “Throw Trucks With Your Mind” is based on ADD therapy “The techniques … are the same ones you use for treating attention deficit disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and anxiety”

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Asi Burak and Laura Parker
The Real Insanity of March Madness
The NCAA’s harshest critic explains how college sports went so wrong, and how they can get right

The NCAA’s harshest critic explains how college sports went so wrong, and how they can get right

Sports

Jeremy Repanich

Merriam-Webster’s Subversive Objectivity A conversation with the highbrow trolls behind our dictionary of record’s cheeky online presence How a stodgy old reference book became America’s sassiest defender of the truth

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Alex Halperin
The Most Powerful Posse In Compton An innovative program is turning LA’s most overlooked neighborhood into an equestrian haven An innovative program is turning LA’s most overlooked neighborhood into an equestrian haven

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Kristin Marguerite Doidge
Brown Girls Is A Love Letter To Tender Female Friendships The new show celebrates women of color in their full humanity “This is what it must mean to be a white person, to see so many different depictions of yourself in media in very different ways”

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Tasbeeh Herwees

A Surf Camp For The Gay Community Grows In Brazil “Being good to yourself and finding community can be a powerful form of activism” “Being good to yourself and finding community can be a powerful form of activism”

Sports

Keph Senett
Here’s How Hard It Is To Get A Mammogram In America Even under the best of circumstances, health care for US women can be a nightmare I’ve been trying to get my boobs squished between two plates of glass for over a year

Health

Kayt Sukel
Why A New Young Adult Book Is A Must-Read For Everyone Angie Thomas’ debut young adult novel is taking the country by storm A new young adult novel with a Black Lives Matter theme—straight from the author’s own life

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Andre Grant

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