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.

A suddenly haunting profile of Joe Paterno, living legend.

An 11-month investigation ends with a booster, now in prison for a Ponzi scheme, going public with details of how he spent millions on college athletes from 2002 to 2010.

The gambler responsible for a point-shaving scandal at Boston College, now a government witness, offers a nuts-and-bolts explanation of how one goes about fixing college sports.

An infamous article on the social dynamics on the Duke campus—it opens at a foam party thrown by a frat—published at the height of the lacrosse team scandal.

A profile of UNLV coach Jerry Tarkanian, who at the time appeared to be losing his 19-year-long battle with the NCAA.

The case for paying college athletes.

A young man, newly out to his parents, undergoes “ex-gay” therapy.

A rugby legend makes history.

On gay life in Saudi Arabia, where coming out is not an option.

How parents and communities are scrambling to adapt as kids start identifying as gay earlier and earlier.

A 32-year-old lets go.

Getting to the truth in the story Tyler Clementi, a gay student at Rutgers, who committed suicide and was spied on by his roommate Dhaurn Ravi. Shortly after this article was published, Ravi was convicted of hate crimes.

There were so many ways the two planes could have avoided the collision. The odds were so slim. But high above the Amazon in 2006, a combination of technology and human fallibility brought them together.

Life as an air-traffic controller at LaGuardia.

The transcript of a disaster.

The story of Southwest Airlines.

On the attempted hijacking of a FedEx flight by a FedEx employee.

On the dream of a transportation system reliant as much on small, safe commuter planes as cars.

The author, two years old when Southern Flight 242 crashed in his backyard, reports on the aftermath, both for his family and for the passengers.

The unpleasant, impossible task of the dealing with the infamous former sports columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times.

As editor-in-chief of Variety, Peter Bart was one of the most powerful people in the entertainment industry. This piece got him suspended.

A profile of Steven T. Florio, then-president and CEO of Condé Nast Publications.

Taibbi goes after New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman for both his politics and his prose.

Ostensibly a review of several releases on the TED Books imprint, this becomes an evisceration of the entire TED-talk culture of pop intellectualism.

A look at the internal culture at Microsoft under Steve Ballmer.

John McCain

John Kerry

Al Gore

Bob Dole

George H.W. Bush

George McGovern