Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Mighty Oak"
A hockey player's life spirals out of control.
A hockey player's life spirals out of control.
Jeff W. Bens Guernica Sep 2020 10min Permalink
How a group of 17 trans athletes came together last November to make history.
Katelyn Burns SB Nation Apr 2020 15min Permalink
A hockey father's escalating faultsthe.
Bradley Babendir The Sun Magazine Nov 2019 10min Permalink
The former NHL tough guy tells his story of head trauma, depression, and his search for peace.
I don’t want to die. But, you know, nothing is for certain. And I’m tired of keeping quiet.
Nick Boynton The Players' Tribune Jun 2018 20min Permalink
How the Las Vegas Golden Knights, the expansion hockey team now in the Stanley Cup Finals, built a brand from scratch.
Noah Davis Racked Oct 2017 20min Permalink
An NHL goalie on playing with mental illness.
Corey Hirsch The Players' Tribune Feb 2017 20min Permalink
A retired fighter worries that he has all the symptoms of CTE.
John Branch New York Times Jun 2016 Permalink
John Scott is a hockey enforcer — he makes his living fighting, not scoring goals. Scott wasn’t supposed to make the NHL. He certainly wasn’t supposed to make the all-star game. But when the fans voted him in, the league tried to keep him on the bench.
John Scott The Players' Tribune Jan 2016 10min Permalink
The hockey legend’s new life as a medical icon for a questionable stem-cell treatment.
Reeves Wiedeman New York May 2015 20min Permalink
The making of an all-time great video game.
Blake J. Harris Read-Only Memory Mar 2015 25min Permalink
On goalies, and in particular, really good Finnish ones.
Chris Koentges The Atlantic Feb 2014 30min Permalink
How a rogue p.r. man pulled a fast one on professional hockey.
Alan Siegel Sports on Earth Jan 2014 15min Permalink
How a financial advisor for NHL players may have orchestrated a massive fraud.
Katie Benner Fortune Jul 2013 15min Permalink
The story of Attila Ambrus, who was released from jail this morning in Hungary. Nicknamed the Whiskey Robber because witnesses always spotted him having a double across the street prior to his heists, Ambrus only stole from state-owned banks and post offices, becoming a Hungarian folk hero during his seven years on the lam. While on his spree he was also the goaltender for Budapest’s best-known hockey team and was arguably the worst pro goalie ever to play the sport, once giving up 23 goals in a single game.
Excerpted from Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts.
The Vancouver riots and an unforgettable image.
Chris Ballard Sports Illustrated Dec 2011 20min Permalink
Dead of an accidental overdose at 28, Derek Boogaard rose from Western Canada’s rugged youth leagues to become on of Hockey’s most feared pugilists. Along the way, what happened to his brain?
John Branch New York Times Dec 2011 40min Permalink
The bizarre tale–and unlikely turnaround–of an NHL player who tried to have his youth coach murdered.
L. Jon Wertheim Sports Illustrated Feb 2011 Permalink
A remembrance of relationships formed when the author, at 13 and using a false identity, frequented hockey chat rooms.
Katie Baker Deadspin Jan 2011 20min Permalink