Oral History

‘We never played for Sterling anyway. It wasn’t like we were going out representing Sterling. We were representing our families, the city of Los Angeles and our fans.’

Forty-three years ago, the upstart Bears upset top-ranked Washington and Lee in men’s lacrosse

Thirty years ago, Doug Williams directed the most prolific quarter in playoff history to become the first black quarterback to win the Super Bowl

Nick Cannon, Zoe Saldana, Dallas Austin and more on the film’s legacy and its fictional — but real — HBCU marching band

A play-by-play of that afternoon when a basketball game was more important than the drug game

A bittersweet oral history of the longest 13.5 seconds in NCAA championship history

And it features heavyweights such as Jamie Foxx, Marsha Ambrosius, Raphael Saadiq, and Lil Wayne

An oral history of the album that brought the ultimate boy band back to life

An oral history of professional sports’ only platinum album