A Kenyan runner loses himself in Alaska.

What happens when Moneyball-style statistical analysis is applied to mixed martial arts.

How the golfer hasn’t changed, post-scandal.

Try as his publicity squad might, it’s tough to maintain—or now restore—the Tiger Image when former insiders sprout secret-sharing campaigns. “It’s always a divorce,” David Feherty, longtime commentator and golf-gab-show host, told me recently. “Tiger expects the curtains to remain drawn, and when somebody opens them, it pisses him off. He has appeared superhuman for so long, and it’s like he feels the need to perpetuate that myth.”

A newspaper writer’s attempt to solve the mystery of a homeless man who claims to be a once-famous boxer.

On the rodeo.

On Mike Powell, a Chicago-area high school wrestling coach who hasn’t allowed a life-threatening illness to interrupt his life’s work.

A report from the freediving word championships.

On a young Arnold Schwarzenegger and the body-building culture of Venice Beach in the 1970s.

On the late Angelo Dundee, who trained Muhammad Ali.

The story of Attila Ambrus, who was released from jail this morning in Hungary. Nicknamed the Whiskey Robber because witnesses always spotted him having a double across the street prior to his heists, Ambrus only stole from state-owned banks and post offices, becoming a Hungarian folk hero during his seven years on the lam. While on his spree he was also the goaltender for Budapest’s best-known hockey team and was arguably the worst pro goalie ever to play the sport, once giving up 23 goals in a single game.

Excerpted from Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts.

How a rugby legend came out and made history.

A travelogue of a three-month tour of Muay Thai boxing camps in Thailand. The author, 28, died in a hit-and-run shortly after returning to the U.S.