The Players Tribune

Heath and Wellness

The Players’ Tribune is a new media company that provides athletes with a platform to connect directly with their fans, in their own words. Founded by Derek Jeter, The Players’ Tribune publishes first-person articles from athletes, providing unique insight into the daily sports conversation. Through impactful and powerful long- and short-form articles, video series and podcasts, The Players’ Tribune brings fans closer than ever to the games they love.

ALL STORIES

The world kind of has a feeling now of what it’s like to be paralyzed.

Eric LeGrand

If being a dad slash husband slash athlete during all of this got a 2K rating, I have to say I’m a 97.

Gerald McCoy

If baseball returns in 2020, it will probably be without me.

Trey Mancini

Knowing the world, and seeing how things have always evolved, I think we’ll get through this as a unit.

Josef Newgarden

By staying at home we are all fighting together against this virus so that things can go back to normal as soon as possible.

Roberto Carlos

It’s not easy, and it’s definitely not fun, but social distancing works.

Cameron Heyward

There’s really nothing else that I am looking forward to right now, other than taking it one day at a time.

Monica Puig

Putting your thoughts — your darkest, most brutal ones — into words is the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do.

Hayden Hurst

I'm planning on staying in the house until we hear that there’s a cure or that it’s contained.

Dion Dawkins

I’ve said from the beginning — ever since I became stuck in Poland — that the Games were 100% not happening this summer.

Monica Aksamit

I’m no doctor, or no politician, or no public health expert. But I know one thing, man. We all got a responsibility to those kids.

Udonis Haslem

I think I’m past the point of shock. For the most part, I’ve just been lying low and looking at my life through a different lens.

Kyle O’Quinn

Don’t worry about what anybody says. Don’t worry about how your boys react to it, or about what people got to say about it on social media.

Ben Gordon

I’m going to start by telling you something you already know: I miss you.

Jeff Okudah

When I woke up that morning in Fort Myers, I was sitting all alone in my underwear ... in the driver’s seat of a parked car that didn’t belong to me. And there

Bobby Jenks

When he was seven, Bheem Goyal was diagnosed with leukemia. Make-A-Wish Foundation helped him live his dream of spending a day with the Sounders and his hero, g

Bheem Goyal

In 2016, Ricky Rubio lost his mother to cancer and nearly gave up on basketball. This right here — this is for her.

Ricky Rubio

Chelsea Stewart O'Brien pens a letter to her dad, PGA Tour legend Payne Stewart, on the 20th anniversary of his death.

Chelsea Stewart O’Brien