“The job is to be enough of a personality that they want to know what you think.”

He was the best alpinist of his generation, a quiet, unassuming Canadian known for bold ascents of some of the world’s most iconic peaks. Four months ago, at the age of 25, he traveled to Alaska to join climber Ryan Johnson for a first ascent outside Juneau. They never came back.

Maine adopted Kenyan runner Moninda Marube as a symbol of human trafficking’s invisible casualties. But a close look at his case raises hard questions — and illustrates the challenge of investigating and prosecuting trafficking crimes.

The Belgian forward’s journey to greatness.

The former NHL tough guy tells his story of head trauma, depression, and his search for peace.

I don’t want to die. But, you know, nothing is for certain. And I’m tired of keeping quiet.

On bareback horse relay racing, a Native American tradition:

“It’s going to be America’s next extreme sport,” he predicts. “Compare it to Professional Bull Riders, PBR. Look how big that got—a million in prize money in every city they go to. That’s how Indian Relay is going to be in 10 years. I look for it to be at every track in the country by 2025.

How the women of U.S. Gymnastics found their voice.

A year with the scandal-plagued squad.

The inside story of how the U.S. missed the 2018 World Cup.

The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League did everything it could to keep lesbians off the diamond. Seventy-five years later, its gay stars are finally opening up.

Inside the NCAA’s years-long, twisting investigation into Mississippi football.

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

Did the NBA executive use social media to secretly disparage his players and defend his decisions?

The NFL is doing everything it can to avoid paying former players who have dementia.

Bill Benter did the impossible: He wrote an algorithm that couldn’t lose at the track. Close to a billion dollars later, he tells his story for the first time.

Riding along with the cycling lawyer who’s trying to change that.

(It’s PB&J.)

It’s worse than you thought.

The neck-and-neck race that electrified the 1982 Boston Marathon.

The life and death of the racehorse Secretariat.

The complicated post-retirement life of Joe DiMaggio.

“Wonder Boy” is heading to the NBA, and he’s out to change how we think about European imports.

On Montana’s Flathead Indian Reservation, basketball is about much more than winning.

On the eve of his 26th WrestleMania appearance, friends, colleagues, and victims of the WWE’s longest-reigning superstar talk about the making of the Undertaker.

A profile of a previously unknown rookie pitcher for the Mets who dropped out of Harvard, made a spiritual quest to Tibet, and somewhere along the line figured out how to throw a baseball much, much faster than anyone else on Earth.