On the rise and fall of the professional sports bettor.

How cable sports channels extort hundreds of dollars per year out of every cable subscriber for programming that less than 10% regularly watch.

The first sports bra was invented in 1977. It was two jockstraps sewn together.

On the history, science, and rise of ACL tears.

A profile of the first and only transgender MMA fighter.

How the game gets made.

While many trans athletes have become political lightning rods, nonbinary people like Layshia Clarendon are left out of the conversation. In a sex-segregated sports world, where do they fit in?

On the death of NBA star Reggie Lewis.

How Cantor Fitzgerald is bringing the principles of day trading to sports betting in Vegas.

The case for paying college athletes.

This presentation was shown to potential recruits for the new Maven SI venture, and it details exactly how the people now in charge of Sports Illustrated plan on turning it into the sort of volume-driven content farm that ruled the web a dozen or so tweaks of the Google algorithm ago.

These women want the right to compete in big-wave contests—and get paid as much as men do.

An investigation into the Dr. Anthony Bosch and his “East Coast version of BALCO,” which allegedly supplied baseball stars Alex Rodriguez, Melky Cabrera and others with performance-enhancing drugs.

How the Las Vegas Golden Knights, the expansion hockey team now in the Stanley Cup Finals, built a brand from scratch.

The so-called gambling experts who sell their picks, lie about their records, and get paid even when they’re wrong.

Catching up with the controversial radio host, who recently returned to the air after years away.

A veteran magazine journalist changes jobs at 57.

There exists a swarm of angry sports fans who maintain that they do not want to talk about Colin Kaepernick or the national anthem, and Barstool has cleared a space for them to gather and talk, mostly, about just how much they don’t want to talk about politics. They claim to be an overlooked majority — the vast market inefficiency that will richly reward anyone who will let them watch their games, memes and funny videos without having to feel bad about themselves. Barstool is their safe space.

On faith and football.

Inside a struggling franchise’s radical rebuilding project.

The life and death of the racehorse Secretariat.