You walk around carrying this invisible weight — this pressure on your whole spirit—because the worlds you’re trying to fit into are rejecting you in so many ways. And you think it’s your fault.

The Brooklyn Nets were built to be an unbeatable superteam of eccentric basketball superstars. Will they dominate the N.B.A. playoffs?

The Brooklyn Nets were built to be an unbeatable superteam of eccentric basketball superstars. Will they dominate the N.B.A. playoffs?

Can the International Swimming League take on the IOC and Vladimir Putin?

A 2018 profile of the tennis star.

On the Long Island Inferno, two fathers, both with complicated pasts took it all too far. Neither man was ever the same.

Mo Pinel spent a career reshaping the ball’s inner core to harness the power of physics. He revolutionized the sport—and spared no critics along the way.

In the north Bronx, a small group of elite Ethiopian runners struggle to survive. The persecution they fled was far more harrowing.

How a Zoom call with Tamika Catchings affirmed everything.

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 joy of watching Roger play live at Wimbledon.

On October 17, 1973, John McClamrock was paralyzed playing high school football. Doctors doubted he would make it through the night. But he and his mother refused to give up—for more than three decades.

A profile of the professional wrestler.

How a Texas university eagerly accepted a top football player as a transfer even though he had just been kicked off another school’s team for a previous incident of violence involving a female student.

On the lost pickup basketball games in D.C. between Wilt Chamberlain and Elgin Baylor, then both still in college, during the summer of 1957.

On Bill May, considered to be the greatest male synchronized swimmer who ever lived, and his long quest for Olympic gold.

A rider’s self-improvement project becomes a whole lot more.

On the Yonkers Hoot Owls.

In a Plano bowling alley one night, Bill Fong came so close to perfection that it nearly killed him.

Mike Schyck and hundreds of other Ohio State University athletes suffered sexual abuse by Dr. Richard Strauss. Schyck and many others believe then-OSU assistant wrestling coach Jim Jordan—now a congressman from Ohio—knew about it.

Inside the dual legacies of NFL players’ union boss DeMaurice Smith.

For Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe, the work is just getting started.

Kobe Bryant in twilight.

An obituary for the baseball legend.

It’s a multilevel marketing company called AdvoCare. Or maybe it’s a pyramid scheme.