Meggett was an All-Pro running back for the New York Giants. He was also a serial rapist.

The wild competition to be “worshipped” by Alaska’s most eligible bachelors.

How much time does Manny Pacquiao have left?

A basketball player, broke and without a Plan B, travels across the country for one last shot at glory.

Billy Dillon was about to sign a contract with the Detroit Tigers. Instead he was convicted–wrongly–of first-degree murder and spent the next 27 years in prison.

The life and sudden death of NASCAR’s Dick Trickle.

The murder of an Olympic champion and the autopsy that shook a city.

Montaous Walton couldn’t throw, catch or hit. But he wanted to be a ballplayer. And with the help of the internet, the media, and an ambitious young agent, that’s what he briefly became.

The story of Héctor Espino, the greatest hitter never to play in the majors.

A profile of Costa Rica’s most famous bull, who is responsible for two riders’ deaths and a brand of craft beer.

“He was, it must be said, a pig. And my heart grew fonder.”

An account of Yukon Quest, Alaska’s grueling, thousand-mile dog sled race.

On the cranky king of New York sports talk.

Richard Simmons at 64, sweatin’ to the oldies (and country and disco) thrice weekly.

The story of the 1944 German national soccer championship game.

Reflections on Mr. Angell, Mr. Kahn and Dad.