All the World is Staged
Catching “the world’s most prolific criminal fixer of soccer matches.”
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John Urschel Goes Pro
How a professional football player became a top-flight mathematician.
'Fight Club' With Better Jokes
An oral history of Garry Shandling’s secret pickup basketball game.
Out in the Great Alone
A trip to the Iditarod.
Privileged
“I know that, as a white man, I have to hold my fellow white men accountable.”
The Charcuterie Board That Revolutionized Basketball
How Steve Kerr transformed the Golden State Warriors offense.
The Final Whistle
Meet the Edward Snowden of European soccer.
Guns 'R Us
A report from Sprague’s Sports, a firearms emporium in Yuma, Arizona.
What Tyler Skaggs Left Behind
On the death of a major league pitcher and its aftermath.
Goals
For Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe, the work is just getting started.
The Cowboy and the King
Can a cowboy become the greatest polo player of all time?
The Secrets of the World’s Greatest Freediver
With only a single breath, Alexey Molchanov, history’s most daring freediver, is reaching improbable depths—and discovering a new kind of enlightenment as he conquers one of the world’s wildest sports.
Year of the Pigskin
A season with the American Football League of China.
How Thailand's Most Notorious Prison Became a Fight Club
The Muay Thai fighters of Klong Prem.
Once a Star, a Cricketer Is Now an Exile
A Jamaican cricket legend bowls in Brooklyn.
The Glorious Plight of the Buffalo Bills
The relationship between Buffalo and its team.
Friday Night Tykes
A season with the best 12-year-old football team in Texas.
(Un)dead Wrestler Of The Week: The Undertaker
On the career and legacy of America’s most popular wrestler.
The One-Legged Wrestler Who Conquered His Sport, Then Left It Behind
The last escape of Anthony Roebles.
Colorado's Most Amazing and Punishing (and Magical) Race
How a 100-mile footrace saved a beleaguered town.
Tangled Up in Blue
The brief life and complicated death of Tommy Lasorda’s gay son.
The Shooting Star and The Model
Inside the Oscar Pistorius murder case.
The Unknown Slugger
The story of Héctor Espino, the greatest hitter never to play in the majors.
The Loser
A profile of the boxer Floyd Patterson, after a painful loss to Sonny Liston.
The Moment I Became a Novelist
The baseball game that launched a career in fiction.
