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Past articles by Jordan:

JaVale McGee Is Getting the Last Laugh

The GOAT of Shaqtin’ a Fool has become the role player every title contender needs → Read More

“She Loved Who She Was Becoming”: Breonna Taylor and a Family’s Fight for Justice

More than three months after Louisville police killed Taylor in her home, the officers have yet to be arrested. Now, a quiet family and community are at the center of a national and global movement demanding change. → Read More

The NBA Now Orbits Around Giannis

Antetokounmpo ascended to a new level of superstardom in 2019, winning the league’s MVP award and pushing our imaginations as he scrambled geometry and sped up time on the court → Read More

Chris Paul on His Insatiable Drive and His Last Best Chance at a Title

The Point God’s competitiveness has earned him praise from teammates, vilification from opponents and fans, and, one day, a spot in the Hall of Fame. Paul and those who know him best explain where it comes from. → Read More

Enes Kanter Contains Multitudes

The 26-year-old is many things: New York Knicks center, devout Muslim, star of #NBATwitter, and enemy of the Turkish state. To Kanter, basketball is far more than a paycheck or even a passion. It’s a pathway to something he’s lost: family. → Read More

Waiting for a Modern Music City Miracle

As the city’s population explodes and the music industry continues to evolve in the digital age, what does the dream of making it big in Music City even look like in 2018? → Read More

How Tony Bennett Turned Virginia Into College Basketball’s Spurs

With UVA, Bennett has built a program that seems to feed on itself, sustaining success regardless of the players on the floor. His Cavs are tough and deep and efficient. You can call them boring, but this April, they might finally win it all. → Read More

Heart of Dawgness: A Pre-Title-Game Journey Through Georgia—and Tortured Fandom

With the Bulldogs set to play for their first national title since the 1980 season, the author—a fan riding a Rose Bowl high—crisscrossed Georgia to talk to those who’ve also spent ages wondering if their hope will always end in heartache → Read More

Lane Kiffin Has Something to Say

Long known as college football’s swaggering and job-hopping lightning rod, Kiffin has sparked one of the biggest turnarounds in the country at FAU, and in so doing, has sparked a change in his own career. Naturally, he’d like to talk about it. → Read More

The Real Ricky Rubio Is Finally Ready to Stand Up

The point guard has been many things in his 13-year professional career: prodigy, ghost, fan favorite, outcast. Now with a Utah team on which he feels fully wanted, Rubio is ready to stop trying to fast-forward to what’s next and instead embrace being something else: himself. → Read More

Brenda Tracy’s Fight Against College Football’s Rape Culture

After bearing the burden of a life-altering trauma for 16 years, Brenda Tracy has, over the past 16 months, become the nation’s leading advocate in the fight against sexual violence in college football. → Read More

Gennady Gennadyevich Golovkin-Canelo Alvarez, the Fight of GGG’s Life

The Kazakh fighter has spent his entire life trying to make a matchup as big as the middleweight title bout that’s being billed as the fight of the year → Read More

Touching Death: The Turbulent Life of One of America’s Last Snake-Handling Preachers

Three years after his father was killed during a service, Cody Coots carries on as pastor of the South’s most famous signs-following church. In a town rife with drugs and poverty, Coots leads a group of congregants who live and worship in extremes — and who, by engaging with death, show their faith in a God they believe delivers life. → Read More

“I Won’t Talk About That”

Atlanta suffered one of the worst losses in sports history by blowing a 28-3 lead to New England in last season’s Super Bowl. So how are the Falcons moving on and trying to avoid a hangover effect? By refusing to even discuss, let alone harp on, the past. → Read More

How the Predators Took Over Nashville –

How P.K. Subban and the Nashville Predators took over their city and the 2017 NHL playoffs on their way to a Stanley Cup final berth → Read More

They the North –

Why in-season trade acquisitions and veteran defensive difference-makers P.J. Tucker and Serge Ibaka will key the Toronto Raptors’ chances against the Milwaukee Bucks in the 2017 NBA playoffs → Read More

Inside Michigan’s Captivating NCAA Tournament Run

The Michigan Wolverines may be a traditional sports power, but this March Madness, John Beilein’s team is the closest thing the sport has to a Cinderella → Read More

‘I Shouldn’t Be Here’

Orlando’s Pulse club shooting claimed 49 lives. The tragedy still binds survivors Tiara Parker and Patience Carter, and Alex Murray, the brother of the youngest victim, Akyra Murray. → Read More

Two Days With Donald Trump’s Staunchest Supporters

Who are the Americans refusing to leave his side? → Read More

Scenes From an American Rally

As Donald Trump’s campaign combusts amid one of the most discomfiting periods in recent American history, who are the supporters who refuse to leave his side? → Read More