Investigating a former NFL star’s new business: renting professional athletes to their biggest fans.

It was a 3-mile footrace. Thousands were in attendance. So how did Michael LeMaitre disappear?

Bob Voulgaris and his math prodigy sidekick attempt to create the perfect betting algorithm.

“He was, it must be said, a pig. And my heart grew fonder.”

Why almost everything we think we know about the iconic photo from Robinson’s first game is wrong.

The story of 1968’s Golden Globe, a race to see who could become the first sailor to circumnavigate the world solo without stopping.

The life of the former defensive tackle, who was paralyzed during a kickoff return.

A conversation about leadership, Grantland, regret, and the President’s favorite conspiracy theories.

A legend hangs on.

“Calça de veludo ou bunda de fora.” Why Neymar, one of the world’s best talents hasn’t taken the money and run.

When should a football player, and in particular one who has suffered three concussions in 10 months, retire?

Cheryl Stearns wanted to become the first woman to skydive 20,000 times. She came up 14 jumps short.

What happened to one of the most hated basketball players in NCAA history after playing a single season at Georgetown.

An athlete without arms or legs tries to get a spot on a the national wheelchair rugby team.

Is it homage? An art project? Whatever it is, it is very Brooklyn 2015.

On Juliana Buhring, a former cult member who became the first woman to bike around the world.

The hockey legend’s new life as a medical icon for a questionable stem-cell treatment.

On the day of the earthquake, two men went into Haiti’s Soccer Federation headquarters. Only one came out.

Kevin Hart wanted a scholarship to play Division I college football. It didn’t come. So he made one up–and called a press conference.

Sex in the NBA in the wake of Magic Johnson’s HIV announcement.

A decorated college track coach, forced to resign because of an affair she had with a athlete 10 years before, fights back.

A profile of the Oklahoma City point guard, who is averaging a triple-double in his first season without Kevin Durant.

A profile of NASCAR Dale Earnhardt Jr., who is returning to racing after a series of concussions.

In the era of cord-cutting and mobile viewing, ESPN is at the crossroads.

A minute-by-minute account of one of the worst sailing disasters in American history.