In 1971, an unlikely activist sued to overturn Iowa’s ban on married women and mothers playing school sports. She just wanted to play.

(It’s PB&J.)

For more than 40 years, a former Olympian allegedly has been molesting boys and young men. Now, they’re speaking out.

The family history behind college football’s most talked-about player.

The life and death of Georgia Frontiere, who was the only woman owner in professional sports when her St. Louis Rams won the 2000 Super Bowl.

At LeBron James’s I Promise School.

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

A two-part investigation into why so many more young players are getting seriously injured.

On the World Cup star’s relationship with her older brother, who has watched most of her games from a prison cell.

Jared Lorenzen was a star quarterback in college. He won a Super Bowl. And just like the author, he has spent his entire life fighting, and losing, a battle with his weight.

Pete Philo had a successful NBA career as a scout for the Pacers, Timberwolves, and Mavericks. He got all those jobs after being convicted of raping a teenager.

An upstart football league goes horribly awry during its first season,.

Carried away by love—for risk and for each other—two of the world’s best freedivers went to the limits of their sport. Only one came back.

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.

The best women’s soccer team in the world fights for equal pay.

A profile of the Golden State Warriors head coach.

What do you do when you hear that Mike Tyson is opening a weed resort in the middle of the California desert? You go investigate.

On the rise and fall of the professional sports bettor.

Inside the dysfunctional world of the Los Angeles Lakers.

Meet the Edward Snowden of European soccer.

Mary Bacon took a bullet while pilfering fruit as a child. Mary Bacon dropped out of school in the sixth grade and was pregnant by age 16. Mary Bacon had a romantic relationship with Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke. Mary Bacon was kidnapped by a stalker. That same stalker later tried to shoot her with a gun. Not all of those sentences are complete horseshit.

How Steve Kerr transformed the Golden State Warriors offense.

A Major League umpire learns that his children share the same deadly genetic disease.

The curious rise and spectacular crash of the Alliance of American Football, a new league that went under in just eight weeks.

An Iowa sports radio pioneer turns scammer.