A teenager finds his dreams of becoming a basketball star threatened after he free falls into the harrowing world of drug ...

Leonardo DiCaprio may have been born in 1974, but he was made in the 1990s. Over the course of just a few years, DiCaprio went from total unknown to household name. Everyone remembers the ...

Punk-rock poet and musician Jim Carroll, who chronicled his wild teen years in "The Basketball Diaries," has died of a heart attack, his ex-wife told The New York Times. By Chris Michaud, Reuters, The ...

Mark Wahlberg’s 1995 feature The Basketball Diaries is highly regarded as one of the actor’s best movies. But Wahlberg shared that it had a brief influence on others’ perception of him. To help shed ...

Jim Carroll, who died 10 years ago Wednesday, was a star high school athlete who was also drawn to writing, particularly poetry. Author and poet Jim Carroll was just 12 years old when he started ...

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Editor's noteCharlyn Chu is a senior captain on the Richard Montgomery girls' basketball team. She will write a diary series for The Washington Post throughout the season to document the life of a ...