How to lose weight while barely moving.

On the retirement of Ted Williams.

On the joy of watching Roger play live at Wimbledon.

On October 17, 1973, John McClamrock was paralyzed playing high school football. Doctors doubted he would make it through the night. But he and his mother refused to give up—for more than three decades.

The origin story of a now-ubiquitous celebration.

On the lost pickup basketball games in D.C. between Wilt Chamberlain and Elgin Baylor, then both still in college, during the summer of 1957.

In a Plano bowling alley one night, Bill Fong came so close to perfection that it nearly killed him.

Just before his first NBA game, an 18-year-old LeBron James was asked about the pressure of controlling the combined fortunes of a city, major corporations, and the league. “I can handle it,” he said.

A hockey player's life spirals out of control.

The case for paying college athletes.

The story of one of the great final acts in sports history.

How Barcelona became the most successful—and most beloved—club in soccer.

A woman told police she was raped by three New York Mets. They were never charged.

A profile of Mo Isom, a former goalie on the LSU women’s soccer team now trying to kick for the football team.

A hockey father's escalating faultsthe.

On surfer girls in Maui; the story that led to the film Blue Crush.

One man’s quest to stop horse racing deaths.

On the rise and fall of the professional sports bettor.

A youth wasted on pro-level ultimate frisbee.

A profile of a 25-year-old Spanish sensation.

At age 17, Bonnie Richardson won the Texas state track team championship all by herself. Then she did it again.

A profile of a previously unknown rookie pitcher for the Mets who dropped out of Harvard, made a spiritual quest to Tibet, and somewhere along the line figured out how to throw a baseball much, much faster than anyone else on Earth.

Wealthy businessman Merv Bodnarchuk put together the dream team of curling. Then he put himself in the lineup.

On the start of the high school football season in Odessa, Texas. An adaptation published alongside the release of Bissinger’s 1990 book of the same name, which led to the movie and the show.

A road trip through an athletic career.