The Takeaway looks at the deaths of two NYPD officers, an NPR journalist explains why the news outlet is leaving Kabul, and a former player weighs in on the NFL's year of controversy.
Cuba has a long history with the sport of baseball. Here we explore what impact a new diplomatic relationship with Cuba have for Major League Baseball.
The Takeaway explores the backlash from the movie "The Interview," we look at what "Serial" teaches us about the criminal justice system, and we look at the future of Cuban baseball.
The University of Alabama-Birmingham is terminating it's football program, a move that has angered the people of Birmingham and united a divided community.
During a game against the Oakland Raiders, five St. Louis Rams players raised their arms in the “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” gesture made famous by protesters in Ferguson, Missouri.
The Takeaway explores what it's like to a loved one battle breast cancer, we examine Kaci Hickox's Ebola quarantine defiance, and question the value of school sports.
Coach Martin Jacobson kicked his heroin habit and managed to stay off by playing soccer. It changed his life, he says, and now he's helping young New Yorkers to stay on track in school.
Over 100,000 student athletes at the youth, high school, and college levels are homeless. Sports Illustrated spent six months investigating their stories.
The Takeaway explains how the lessons of the Bubonic plague can help fight Ebola, we examine the lives of homeless young athletes, and we explore creativity and ADHD.
New Rochelle High School, the alma mater of former Baltimore Ravens star Ray Rice, is teaching students about domestic and dating violence in the wake of Rice's abuses.
The Takeaway examines the response to the Ebola virus in New York and New Jersey, we check in on Todd Zwillich's political tour of the South, we discuss the culture of school sports.
Die-hard fans of the Kansas City Royals watched their team lose their entire adult lives, but now these underdogs are finally entering the playoffs again for the first time in 29 years.
The Takeaway reviews the last song from Glen Campbell, the long-awaited comeback by the Kansas City Royals, and a MacArthur Grant winner discusses her research.
