A longform piece on fitness, dedication, and crazy feats. Record-setting strongman Mike McCastle trained Colin O’Brady for his epic trek across Antarctica. But that turned out to be only a tiny part of Mike’s story.
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Coaches Who Prey
This yearlong project, published as a four-day series in 2003, now seems prescient: an investigation of sexual abuse by high school coaches, and the system that allowed them to flourish. Told through scores of in-depth interviews with sex abuse victims, perpetrators, parents and educators, the series changed lives and changed laws. It’s been cited in everything from Title IX textbooks to instructional material for police investigators. All thanks to the young women who had the courage to come forward.
The will to lose
Why do the Usain Bolts of the world get all the glory? What about the ordinary humans who come in last? I tracked down people who crossed the finish line last in some of the country’s biggest marathons. Turns out there’s a lot to learn from these “losers.”
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