Longform

The complicated post-baseball days of Joe DiMaggio.

Basketball’s iconoclast is now a broke recluse at 37.

Five years after they leave the league, 60 percent of NBA players have nothing left. In the NFL, it’s closer to 80 percent after just two years. A breakdown of the economics of retirement.

Terrell Owens at 38: unemployed, nearly bankrupt after losing his shirt in a electronic-bingo entertainment complex development plan gone bust, father of four children (one of which he has never met), frequent bowler.

Before he was a Twitter savant, Jose Canseco was a juiced-up terror.

Former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling needed funding for his ambitious video-game startup. Rhode Island politicians needed jobs and a vision for how to transform the state’s beleaguered economy. The story of a $75 million bet gone bust.

The crumbling of an American icon.

On Stephon Marbury’s (not totally sad!) NBA exile in China.

Baseball legend Lenny Dykstra’s on-field brilliance and private-life disasters, from drunk driving to failed investment and publishing ventures.

A profile of Jordan at 50.