Five years after his death, friends, family, and the athletes he covered reflect on the legendary ‘SportsCenter’ anchor and ESPN icon.

Anthony Minghella’s 1999 film adaptation, starring Matt Damon, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, and the coast of Italy, has become a cult classic (and a warning).

Can Jerry Falwell Jr. build Liberty University’s football team into the evangelical version of Notre Dame?

How a bunch of Canadian hipsters wound up smuggling cocaine (and getting caught).

Inside the Hong Kong protests.

How Dan Patrick and Keith Olbermann revolutionized sports broadcasting with SportsCenter.

On the rise and fall of the professional sports bettor.

On a century of Muslim misrepresentation in Hollywood.

He worked as an engineer developing the technology to make Pringles potato chips before embarking on a prolific writing career. Known as the Melville of science fiction and celebrated for his inventive and challenging work, Wolfe died on April 14 at age 87.

A profile of Elaine May, one the most important figures in American pop cultural history—and one of the most hidden.

In 2017, the Hall of Fame Louisville coach’s career collapsed under a string of scandals, leading to his firing from the school he had coached for 16 years. Now, Pitino is finding himself in Greece, coaching Panathinaikos, working for a self-styled Bond villain, and enjoying a new chapter of his life.

On the art of the takedown.

On the grueling nature of Chinese restaurant work and the hopes and dreams of the cooks and delivery men who have migrated to the U.S.

An oral history of the most important deal in sports TV history, when Rupert Murdoch and Fox stole the NFL and John Madden out from under the Big Three networks and launched a television empire.

An oral history of Nirvana ‘Unplugged.’

A profile of the billionaire influencer.

The 26-year-old is many things: New York Knicks center, devout Muslim, star of #NBATwitter, and enemy of the Turkish state.

A quest for tigers in India.

How the magazine industry’s identity crisis is playing out on its front page.

The legacy of Benihana.

As the last remaining Blockbusters shut their doors, a portrait of the customers, the staff, and what it was like as they were finally losing each other, after almost 30 years.

A massive raid on a long-running cockfighting ring in Arkansas has raised complex questions about ICE, immigration, and the future of a centuries-old tradition.

The racially motivated destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood district has never been told in a manner worthy of its importance. Local residents and Hollywood grapple with how to tell its story as the 100-year anniversary approaches.

The inside story of how the U.S. missed the 2018 World Cup.

Did the NBA executive use social media to secretly disparage his players and defend his decisions?