In the 1980s, Billy Ray Bates, once dubbed “the Legend,” drank himself out of the NBA and ended up playing in the Philippines. For a few wild years, his legend grew—both on the court and in the bars.

Two men. Five days. Five boroughs. Five 140.6-mile triathlons.

How a bootleg prep school profited by ripping off teens with NBA dreams.

Twenty years later, looking back at an infamous paragraph.

The underbelly of Vox Media’s success.

A dispatch from Anthony Scaramucci’s SALT Conference.

“The sex abuse is a symptom of a culture that does not allow the athletes to have their voice.”

The second richest musician in the world, behind Paul McCartney, is James Dolan, owner of the Knicks and Madison Square Garden, whose band JD & The Straight Shot toured opening for Jewel behind an album that sold 113 copies.

The story of Jennifer Frey, a sportswriting prodigy who drank herself to death.

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.