Michael Phelps returns to his Olympic training after a 45-day stint at The Meadows.

Investigating the unsolved murder of a former NBA player.

Australian Rocky Perone, age 21, made his minor league baseball debut with a stolen base in 1974. Except he wasn’t Australian, wasn’t named Rocky Perone and most definitely wasn’t 21.

The story of a sudden death amid a high school recruiting scandal in Texas.

A profile of Yankee legend Yogi Berra, who died Tuesday.

The story of a small town just outside Pittsburgh that has suffered through a half-century of economic decline, racial tension, and endless crime. Despite that trajectory, or perhaps because of it, Aliquippa has also produced an astounding number of NFL players.

A 42-year-old man with small hands and a dream.

The multiple stories behind an iconic college football photo.

Life, death, and last year’s Auburn-Alabama game.

Last summer, Gia Allemand took her own life in a New Orleans apartment complex. The first person on the scene was her boyfriend, NBA star Ryan Anderson. This is the story of how he survived.

Relief pitcher Donnie Moore is best known for giving up a crucial home run during Game 5 the 1986 ALCS. It’s not what led to his suicide a few years later.

Shirley Dygert had never jumped before. Dave Hartsock jumped for a living. Neither of them knew what to expect when the parachute failed.

Inside a struggling franchise’s radical rebuilding project.

The story of a high school basketball star’s sexual abuse conviction and its aftermath, told from all sides.

Joe Frazier vs. Muhammad Ali, 20 years after their final fight.

The life and death of Pat Tillman.

The story of Rubin “Hurricane” Carter’s exoneration.

The story of a very bad basketball team.

On the legendary journalist and the book he never finished.

On faith and football.

How race and recollection still frame an Alabama football fatality 40 years later.

A father and his 9-year-old daughter watch Harvard play Yale in football.

Basketball on a Crow reservation and a player named Jonathan Takes Enemy trying to escape.

How a Peace Corps volunteer turned a high school basketball squad into Afghanistan’s national team.

Nine innings with Mr. Baseball.