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The New Yorker

"Carolina Kostner and the Fight Against Doping," January 28, 2015
"The Jock-Tax Man," April 10, 2015
"Why the Cubs Kept Their Best Prospect Down," April 28, 2015
"Sponsoring FIFA Corruption," June 2, 2015
"The Mission of a Female Powerbreaker," July 24, 2015
"Are Minor Leaguers Paid Legal Wages?" August 20, 2015
"Mixed Martial Arts Meets Khmer Boxing," February 19, 2016
"Donald Trump's Immigrant Mother," June 24, 2016
"You Throw Girl: An Olympic Shot-Putter's Feminist Mission," August 11, 2016
"Sania Mirza's Unlikely Stardom," September 10, 2016
"The New York City Marathon Quadruplets," October 23, 2016
"What Pregnant Athletes Can Achieve," April 26, 2017
"The Ripple Effects of the Muslim Ban on High School Basketball," March 18, 2017
"Shalane Flanagan and the Triumph of Women Running," November 6, 2017
“The U.S. Women’s Hockey Team Hard Road to the Winter Olympics Finals,” February 21, 2018

Esquire

"Caged: What Drives Ronda Rousey to Wake Up and Fight," November 10, 2015
"Is it too Late for Tim Tebow to be Saved?" December 2, 2015
"'I'm Fucking Weird,' How Royce White Became the Most Important Basketball Player Alive," May 7, 2017

THE NEW YORK TIMES (FULL INDEX HERE)

A newspaper spread of comic-style illustrations headlined Confessions of a Dead Man

“Sculptured by Weights and a Strict Vegan Diet,” January 4, 2012
“Fire Survivor and a Possible Olympian: A Horse Named Neville,” January 12, 2012
The Amantle Montsho Series: Part I, “Footprints on a Path to Gold,” April 21, 2012, Part II, “Solitary Refinement: A Runner’s Quest,” June 1, 2012, Part III, “The 400: Aching to Win,” July 7, 2012
“Middle Schools Add a Team Rule: Get a Drug Test,” September 22, 2012
“Armstrong Aide Talks of Doping and Price Paid,” October 12, 2012
"Warm Weather Forces Changes Ahead of Iditarod Race," February 3, 2013
Westminster Investigation
Part I, "Safety Concerns Stoke Criticism of Kennel Club," February 9, 2013, Part II, "Judge For Westminster Dismisses Doubts About Fairness," February 10, 2013 and "Dog's Death After Westminster Leaves Handler Suspicious," February 27, 2013
"London. Tokyo. Athens. Tulsa? A Heartland Olympic Dream," June 30, 2013
"Judges of a Graceful Sport, Caught in a Clumsy Cheating Scandal," July 16, 2013
"Tomato Can Blues," September 2013
"Unplugging in the Unofficial Capital of Yoga," June 19, 2014
"High-Fives, Not High Reps: CrossFit Programs for Preschoolers Focus on Fun," October 1, 2014
"Where Americans Come Together," January 27, 2017
“The Future of Men’s Gymnastics is not Well-Balanced,” August 27, 2018
“‘I’m Weird, but I get Results,’: Have you Met This Wizard on the Subway?” May 26, 2019
“Trump Didn’t Know People Could Die from the Flu. His Grandfather Did,” March 22, 2020

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The Wall Street Journal

“Beetle Bailey’s Long March: Classic Cartoons Look for a Home,” July 16, 2008
“The Big Bored: NYSE Traders Look for Diversions as Life Slows on the Floor,” May 4, 2009
“From Ordering Steak and Lobster, to Serving It,” June 2, 2009
“The $550,000 Student Loan Burden,” February 31, 2010
“Bank of Mom and Dad Shuts Amid White-Collar Struggle,” April 5, 2010
“When Student Loans Live on After Death,” August 7, 2010
"A High-Rise Plan Kills High for Ken Kesey Fans," January 5, 2016

NBC News

"Think Olympic Figure Skating Judges Are Biased? They Might Be," Feb 6, 2018
"Figure Skating Judges Who Break the Rules Return to Judge Another Day," Feb 8, 2018

Bleacher Report/CNN

"'Hush-Hush,' Inside the NFL's Domestic Violence Policy," January 31, 2017

ESPN

"Steve Prefontaine's Last Run," Grantland (RIP!), May 29, 2015

bloomberg businessweek

"Full-time Traders, Overtime Refs," December 10, 2015
"Texting Out an SOS: Messaging Apps are Helping Some Women Escape Human Trafficking," December 24, 2015
"Prison Dating Websites Are Under Threat," July 20, 2017
"Should Ex Convicts Be Lawyers?" November 14, 2017
“How to Break an NDA,” May 1, 2018
“The Dallas Mavericks’ New CEO is Cleaning Up a #MeToo Mess,” December 20, 2018
“Trader Joe’s Employees Say Virus Response Was Haphazard and Chaotic,” April 8, 2020

VICE

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An illustrated runner on an open road

"Call Me Matt: Life as a Transgender High School Athlete," July 16, 2015
"Jay-Z's Tennis Prodigy," September 6, 2015
"David Foster Wallace at the U.S. Open, 20 Years Later," September 20, 2015
"Youth Sports Behind Bars," September 25, 2015
"Silicon Valley's Plan to Turn Inmates Into Coders," October 16, 2015
"Eat, Pray, Pollute," May 11, 2016
"Is Paying $80,000 to Freeze Your Head Worth Seeing What the Future Will Be?" February 7, 2017
"Oregon Duck Fans are Tailgating in the Front Lawn of a Youth Jail," October 20, 2017

Fortune

"Less Than Half of Women's College Sports Teams Are Coached by Women," September 14, 2015
"The NFL Has a Plan to Recruit More Female Refs. Will it Work?" October 19, 2015
“How Much is a Little Girl Worth? The Painful Financial Fallout of the Larry Nassar Case,” June 27, 2019

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WIRED

"The Last of the Typewriter Men," February 20, 2015
"Instagram is Ruining Travel," April 13, 2016
"Inside the Weird World of Social Media Marathon Cheating," October 18, 2017

politico

"Letter from Reykjavik: Iceland is not Greece" June 11, 2015
"What Did the Big Banks Know About FIFA?" June 12, 2015
"The World Cup Pay Gap," July 6, 2015, (subsequent congressional action and a lawsuit)

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