I'll throw this in here since you were reminded of another Players' Tribune article. It has to be because they use of ghostwriters all the time. Every single one of their articles have the same form, same word selection, same pacing.
Has anyone else noticed this? I'm not saying it's bad bad, but tough to take seriously if all of them are so similar. It'd be fun to go through and do some text analysis to see if it's provable.