The so-called gambling experts who sell their picks, lie about their records, and get paid even when they’re wrong.

A photographer captured the moment when a race organizer confronted a woman who’d snuck into the race.

Brian Chavez was supposed to be the one who made it out of Odessa. It didn’t turn out that way.

On May 12, 2014, Nicole Holder told Charlotte police that she had been assaulted by Greg Hardy. He was arrested, charged, and convicted. Then the case was dismissed on appeal. After a season out of the league, Hardy is playing for the Dallas Cowboys. Owner Jerry Jones has called him a “real leader.”

This is the story, and the photos, of what happened that night.

“Norbert Grupe—a Nazi soldier’s son, boxer, professional wrestler, failed actor, criminal, and miserable human being who was never so happy as when he could make someone hate him—was once a man so beautiful that other men wanted to paint him.”

How an amateur photographer documented the greatest achievement in track and field history.

Why The Undefeated, a site announced more than two years ago, still hasn’t launched.

Football-related brain damage made Rickie Harris fall from the heights of the NFL to serving a DUI sentence in his ex-wife’s basement.

Twelve columns about the boxer’s descent, originally published in the Chicago Daily News and the Chicago Sun-Times.

A profile of “the seven-time defending UFC light-heavyweight champion, practically unbeatable, and already maybe the greatest fighter of all time.”

How a small group of gamers has been able to “set the terms of debate in a $100 billion industry, even as they send women like Brianna Wu into hiding and show every sign that they intend to keep doing so until all their demands are met.”

A trip to the U.S. Open of ping-pong.

A 2011 profile of LeBron James, originally meant to run in Port, that was killed by Nike.

The stories of the 109 black men who have played quarterback in the NFL, from Fritz Pollard to Russell Wilson.

How fight coach Greg Jackson, once dubbed “the Philosopher King of MMA,” does his job.

The family history behind college football’s most talked-about player.

On a makeshift halfway house for down-and-out former wrestlers.

“The first time I was ever published in a book was 1997. It was because I found Roger Ebert’s email and asked him a question.”

The last escape of Anthony Roebles.

On the career and legacy of America’s most popular wrestler.

The story was told by Sports Illustrated, CBS News, and countless others: linbeacker Manti Te’o, Heisman trophy candidate and the face of Notre Dame football, was playing brilliantly despite the tragic loss of his girlfriend to leukemia early in the season. The reporters missed one key element of Te’o’s story, however: the girl hadn’t died. She couldn’t have. She didn’t exist.

“What follows is my attempt, based on a few increasingly hostile exchanges and a close reading of his terrible book, not only to examine why Mariotti is currently jobless but to explain why, in a sane world, he should forever remain that way. I present this as a cautionary tale for other sportswriters, both young and old.”

The strange saga of Sarah Phillips, who went from message board commenter to ESPN gambling columnist and hid her identity from editors, scamming many of the people she met along the way.

A profile of John Alan Schwartz, creator of one of the most notorious movies ever made.

A reporter recounts her weekend as an undercover Juggalette.