Increasingly worn down by the pandemic, a dad goes to a baseball game.

Can a cowboy become the greatest polo player of all time?

Three years ago, college football was rocked by a domestic violence scandal that ended with Ohio State firing assistant coach Zach Smith and suspending head coach Urban Meyer. Both men have since reinvented their images and careers. But what about Courtney Smith, the woman who said she had been abused for years by Smith while he coached at Ohio State? This is her story.

The Atlanta Braves-New York Mets game from Sept. 21, 2001, remains a historic moment of grief, mourning, and hope after 9/11.

When the Arlee Warriors cleared an astonishing path to the state basketball championship, they brought healing to the community.

How to lose weight while barely moving.

Paul Wulff, a college football coach, was only 12 when his mother vanished from their family home. After 41 years of searching, he finally has been able to piece together some details of a mystery that upended both his life and family.

Pedestrianism was a sport of epic rivalries, eyewatering salaries, feverish nationalism, eccentric personalities and six-day, 450-mile walks.

A profile of the gymnast.

For years, Hou was the only woman who stood a chance against the very best. But she had her own ambitions.

On the early NBA days of the league’s newest champion.

When I was 27, I quit my job to travel and ski-bum, and by that point I had managed to save a small sum that could float me for a year. I called it my fuck-you money, because if I was ever in a situation I didn’t like—stuck in a job or with a boyfriend I wanted to leave—I could say fuck you and go. Living in ski towns is how I learned the dirtbag lifestyle, and to my surprise I took to it naturally and with enthusiasm.

How the Baltimore Orioles first baseman overcame stage 3 colon cancer.

On the retirement of Ted Williams.

The author and his daughter make a pilgrimage to witness greatness.

An ocean race from the Olympic Peninsula to Alaska, with no motors allowed.

How much can athletes really make in niche sports? A whole lot more than you might think.

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

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.

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.