The cheerleader who sued the Raiders for failure to pay minimum wage.

The bleak final season of Tony Gonzalez’s Hall of Fame career.

The behind-the-scenes story of how NFL prospect Michael Sam came out.

The stories of the 109 black men who have played quarterback in the NFL, from Fritz Pollard to Russell Wilson.

Tensions rise when a high school teacher fails a star student-athlete.

"Word spread: Jimmy Carter, the prize of the Permian Basin, the boy who could flat-out fly, the jovial kid who never turned in work but still somehow always got Cs, was in danger of getting yanked off the team, all because some Yankee teacher had to show his moral fiber. How convenient that his son just happened to be the backup."

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

How Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder, with a little help from the Bush Administration, got 140 trees chopped down in a national park to improve his view and ruined the life of a park ranger in the process.

On faith and football.

The rigors of youth football.

A profile of the NFL quarterback gone bust.

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

The house at 114 Lake Avenue in Bristol, CT that kept calling Aaron Hernandez, a NFL star by 20, back to “a volatile underworld of guns, drugs, and violence.”

A college football coach is falsely accused of producing and possessing child pornography.

The persistent, tragic behavior of professional athletes.

The NFL attempts to set up a beachhead in China.

Aside from the wealthiest players, nine out of 10 NFL athletes are likely to be insolvent within 10 years of retirement. A new executive MBA program aims to change that.

Amidst the football-obsessed culture of small-town Christian colleges in Kansas, a player is killed at a party.

A profile of NFL commissioner Roger Goodell.

Meet Gene Locks, the onetime Princeton quarterback suing the NFL on behalf of 4,000 former players.

A combat veteran trains to be a college football placekicker.

Being injured in the NFL.

The story was told by Sports Illustrated, CBS News, and countless others: linbeacker Manti Te’o, Heisman trophy candidate and the face of Notre Dame football, was playing brilliantly despite the tragic loss of his girlfriend to leukemia early in the season. The reporters missed one key element of Te’o’s story, however: the girl hadn’t died. She couldn’t have. She didn’t exist.

A season with the best 12-year-old football team in Texas.

A rape case in which most of the evidence lies in the archives of Twitter and Instagram divides a football-crazed town of 18,400.

The story of a rookie clinging to his dream, as told by his uncle.