A profile of a young Steve Prefontaine.

A 16-year-old runner, her coach and the lasting memory of an improbable race.

The strange case of Kip Litton, road race fraud.

On the world’s longest foot race, which takes place entirely within Queens.

He rose from poverty to fame as a marathon champion at only 23. But was his fall from a balcony outside of Nairobi murder, accident, or suicide?

A profile of 101-year-old marathoner Fauja Singh.

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

In Mexico’s remote Copper Canyon, the Tarahumara Indians party hard, get by on a diet of carbs and beer, and can still run 100-mile races, even in their 60s.

His brain and body shattered in a horrible accident as a young boy, Bret Dunlap thought just being able to hold down a job, keep an apartment, and survive on his own added up to a good enough life. Then he discovered running.

The the incredible story of Rick Wershe, an infamous teenage drug dealer in 1980s Detroit who flew in kilos of cocaine and was arrested at 17. Still incarcerated, Wershe now claims he was working with the FBI all along. Was one of Detroit’s most notorious criminals also one of the feds’ most valuable informants?

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What do you do when you think a family member is a murderer? Step one: stop letting her make you dinner.

The story of Frank Bourassa, the world’s most prolific counterfeiter.

He has a staff of 300. His website gets more traffic than Gawker and has 300,000 paying subscribers. He has a clothing line, a string of bestselling books, a movie studio and a radio show syndicated on 400 stations. A profile of Glenn Beck, mogul.

Scrutinizing the gluten-free craze.