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'Jordan Rides the Bus,' a 30-for-30 Review

It's always fun to talk about what stories would have been the most "bloggable" before blogs existed. When that conversation comes up, it's hard to think of one that might top Michael Jordan's decision to retire from the NBA, fresh off of three consecutive NBA championships to try his hand at professional baseball. Ron...

'June 17, 1994': An ESPN 30 for 30 Review

"I was sitting on the sun porch at my parents' house, watching the NBA Finals." That's the easy, don't-need-to-think-about-it answer whenever the question "Where were you on June 17, 1994?" comes up. Although the question is usually phrased, "Where were you during the OJ chase?" That's because when OJ Simpson and Al...

Guru of Go: The Great and Tragic Story of Loyola Marymount

"It was an instantaneous thing." That's how the death of Hank Gathers is described at the start of Guru of Go, the new ESPN 30 for 30 documentary about Paul Westhead's Loyola Marymount basketball team. Twenty years have passed since Gathers collapsed and died during a game, which means the players on the floor in this...

'Without Bias': Basketball Career Cut Short Still Resonates Today

Len Bias has now been dead longer than he was alive, and yet his life and death don't feel like an old story in Without Bias, the documentary that will debut on ESPN on Tuesday. Instead, the story of Bias, who died of a cocaine overdose at age 22 less than 48 hours after being drafted by the Boston Celtics, feels like...