Courtney’s Story
How one the nation’s most powerful college football program went to great lengths to protect one of its own from repeated accusations of domestic violence.
Finalist: Investigative Reporters & Editors Award for Sports Investigation
Finalist: Deadline Club Award for Sports Reporting
Selected for The Year’s Best Sports Writing
There Will Never Be Another “WTF With Marc Maron”
Read the essay Maron called the best thing that will ever be written about the groundbreaking podcast.
You Can Never Let Them Think They Have A Chance
On the Dianna Russini controversy.
The Greg Hardy Files, Part I and Part II
The reporting that resulted in the Dallas Cowboys player leaving the NFL.
Tie a Tourniquet on Your Heart
Revisiting Edna Buchanan, America’s greatest police reporter.
The Fight To Make Tyreek Hill’s Court Documents Public
Defector Media organized a coalition of media outlets in Florida that went to court to keep the popular NFL player from skirting the state’s stringent public record laws—and won.
The Rise of Jordon Hudson, Small Business Owner
A profile of one of the famous WAGs in sports using only public records.
Against Allegedly
On one of the most popular words in journalism and how it’s used to discredit women who report assault and abuse.
The NFL Investigation and Punishment of Josh Brown Achieved Nothing
Two years into the NFL’s quest to “get it right” on domestic violence, an investigation into how the league was still failing women who reported their spouses for abuse.
When the Robert Kraft Case Fell Apart, the Women Were Left Behind to Pay the Price
What happened to the women in the Robert Kraft massage parlor case? And why did the case collapse?
Simone Biles Wins Gold in Paris
I covered Simone Biles’s final Olympics lives from Paris. Check out a few of my dispatches here and here. This one is my favorite.
Sneaker Con — The Kicks Controversy, Part I
The first episode in a two-part podcast series detailing the rise of a Ponzi scheme built entirely on designer sneakers.
Sneaker Con — The Kicks Controversy, Part II
The second episode, in which we chart the sneaker Ponzi scheme’s downfall and why it was able to happen at all.
14 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Became an Investigative Reporter
Look! I’m in Cosmopolitan! This was a fun one.
Nubia Barahona: The Life of a Child
The death of 10-year-old Nubia Barahona at the hands of her parents became a national story. Both her parents were charged with murder. This — from voluminous court records, audio recordings, hundreds of family photos released by prosecutors, interviews and child welfare documents — is the story of her life.