Sports

Bob Voulgaris and his math prodigy sidekick attempt to create the perfect betting algorithm.

It was a 3-mile footrace. Thousands were in attendance. So how did Michael LeMaitre disappear?

On the meeting of shaggy-haired American ping pong ace Glenn Cowan and Chinese master Zhuang Zedong (who died this week), and how their fleeting friendship thawed relations between the twon nations during the U.S. team’s historic 1971 tour of China.

A profile of Jordan at 50.

A conversation with a 29-year-old approaching his apex.

Investigating a former NFL star’s new business: renting professional athletes to their biggest fans.

A profile of former Duke basketball star Jay Williams a decade after the motorcycle crash that ended his career.

How Singaporean mobster Tan Seet Eng, aka Dan Tan, and a global network of fixers influenced as many 680 soccer matches at the highest levels.

Larry Brown’s mystifying, unpredictable career.

Royce White’s theories of mental illness.

Meet Gene Locks, the onetime Princeton quarterback suing the NFL on behalf of 4,000 former players.

A combat veteran trains to be a college football placekicker.