On the history, science, and rise of ACL tears.

Searching for the real reason why a bunch of kids partying at the empty home of an NFL player became a national story.

A trip to Hempfest with cannabis breeder DJ Short.

Behind the scenes with Maury.

An open letter on Grand Theft Auto 5 and aging out of the Rockstar Games franchise.

Myst, twenty years later.

The lost dream of Korleone Young, a high school basketball star who skipped college and flamed out after only one NBA season.

On boxer Canelo Alvarez.

In January, the body of a 17-year-old athlete was found in his high school’s gym. The authorities ruled it an accident. His friends and family aren’t convinced.

Three days on road with former chef and current rap eccentric Action Bronson.

The drunken genius of Harry Nilsson, the American Beatle.

On the county fair and casino circuit with Huey Lewis, who at 61 is “part of a select fraternity of musicians who can draw a couple thousand people in dozens (if not hundreds) of middle-American towns … scattered throughout the country.”

An oral history of the 2003 World Series of Poker, as poker went mainstream in America and online players invaded the competition.

The NFL attempts to set up a beachhead in China.

A drunken evening with the Primer and Upstream Color director.

Charles Pierce’s classic GQ profile of Tiger Woods, annotated.

Two decades later, unpacking a historic bust.

The crumbling of an American icon.

In February, Jerusalem’s FC Beitar, the only soccer team in the Israeli Premier League to have never signed an Arab player, signed two Chechnyan Muslims, sparking national controversy and pitting the organization against their ultras fan club La Familia.

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

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.

An essay on television and race.

Royce White’s theories of mental illness.