Mary Pilon

Author, Director, Producer, Reporter

Pickleball, America's fastest-growing sport, boasts a roster of 37 million players nationwide, creating a multi-million-dollar craze that has celebrity investors and Wall Street jumping over the net.

Dreambreaker: A Pickleball Story

In this unvarnished and affecting memoir, Olympian Kara Goucher reveals her experience of living through and speaking out about one of the biggest scandals in running.

Kara Goucher grew up with Olympic dreams. She excelled at running from a young age and was offered a Nike sponsorship deal when she graduated from college. Then in 2004, she was invited to join a secretive, lavishly funded new team, dubbed the Nike Oregon Project. Coached by distance running legend Alberto Salazar, it seemed like the opportunity of a lifetime.

Kara was soon winning a World Championship medal, going to the Olympics, and standing on the podium at the New York and Boston marathons, just like her coach. But behind the scenes, Salazar was hiding dark secrets. He pushed the limits of anti-doping rules, and created what Kara experienced as a culture of abuse, the extent of which she reveals in her book for the first time. Meanwhile, Nike stood by Alberto for years and proved itself capable of shockingly misogynistic corporate practices.

Told with stunning honesty, The Longest Race is an unforgettable story and a call to action. Kara became a crusader for female athletes and a key witness helping to get Salazar banned from coaching at the Olympic level. Kara’s memoir reveals how she broke through the fear of losing everything, bucked powerful forces to take control of her life and career, and reclaimed her love of running.


The Longest Race

An investigation that occurred when the Bishop Sycamore Centurions, a presumed high school football team from Columbus, Ohio, took on perennial prep powerhouse Img Academy.

BS High

An exciting look at the official behind-the-scenes podcast for HBO's BS High documentary.

The BS High Official Podcast

It highlights how ESSENCE Magazine has informed and reflected Black culture in the United States in the last 50 years.

Time of Essence

A documentary that focuses on a dangerously legendary water park and its slew of injuries and crimes along with child safety concerns.

Class Action Park

Free Parking

Investigates an explosive NCAA scandal. Stephen Godfrey takes viewers inside the war between Ole Miss and Mississippi State and emerges with a portrait of the inherent injustice of NCAA sports.

Foul Play: Paid in Mississippi

The closing ceremony to the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Rio 2016 Olympic Games Closing Ceremony

Broadcast television coverage of the Rio 2016: Summer Olympics Games of the XXXI Olympiad, an international multi-sport competition that took place in and around Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from 05 August 2016 through 21 August 2016.

Rio 2016: Games of the XXXI Olympiad

Examines the implementation and ineffectiveness of anti-doping policies in sports.

Doped: The Dirty Side of Sports

Books du Jour introduces a brand new literary program with a simple premise. Every week, the host invites three authors to lunch to discuss their work and their main concerns about life at large. The guests for the pilot are Ayana Mathis, "The Twelve Tribes of Hattie"; Gary Shteyngart, "Little Failure: A Memoir," and Joshua Henkin, "The World Without You."

Books Du Jour

The stories behind interesting and unusual artifacts stored in museums are told.

Mysteries at the Museum

A series showcasing documentaries on American history.

American Experience

America’s top gymnasts have been showstoppers at the Summer Olympics for decades—the women’s artistic team won nine medals in 2016 alone. But beneath the athleticism, smiles, sponsorship deals, and haul of gold medals was a dark secret: a story of sexual abuse and trauma that, when revealed, became one of the biggest scandals in the history of American sports.

In early 2018, Larry Nassar, the former doctor for USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University, was sentenced to serve out the rest of his life in prison after pleading guilty to a variety of sex crimes. In a show of unparalleled force, more than 150 young women—from gold medalists to former Michigan State University athletes to old family friends—confronted the once beloved Nassar in court, sharing their pain and resolve. Many of them took legal, financial, and career risks to speak out.

But these women’s stories also reveal a disturbing, more far-reaching truth: that the institutions responsible for protecting them—from the United States Olympic Committee to local police departments—had known in some form about the abuse for years and had not put an end to it. Twisted tells the harrowing story of these crimes and how Larry Nassar got away with them for as long as he did.

New York Times best-selling author Mary Pilon and reporter Carla Correa chronicle the scandal from its inception, tracking the institutions that Nassar hid behind, the athletic culture that he benefited from, and the women who eventually brought him to justice. In this Audible Original, you’ll hear directly from these people—including the voices of coaches, parents, industry leaders, and the survivors themselves—as they grapple with the truth about Nassar and describe what it took to bring him down.

