An NBA lottery pick and drug addict tries to rebuild his life.

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 implosion of the daily fantasy industry is a bro-classic tale of hubris, recklessness, political naïveté and a kill-or-be-killed culture.

A profile of the Carolina Panthers quarterback.

An East German weightlifter ingested more anabolic steroids than any other athlete in recorded history. It didn’t end well.

A pre-Olympics profile of the now-gold medalist.

“Rio is about far more than Phelps adding to his legacy. It’s the next step toward achieving the same peace and balance on land as he’s had in the water.”

With the biggest bout of his career looming, Andre Ward — who some consider the world’s best boxer — opens up about his family and his faith.

A beaten man tries to come back from purgatory.

He set a world record in the 100-yard dash as a teenager. He was mentored by Muhammad Ali and a man who orchestrated the largest bank embezzlement in U.S. history. He was homeless for part of his adult life before making a comeback at age 34. Throughout it all, Houston McTear was really, really fast.

On NFL siblings Michael and Martellus Bennett, who “tend to perplex people.”

In the midst of a tribal burial, Jim Thorpe’s third wife burst in to remove his body, setting in motion a decades-long battle over the Native American athlete’s final resting place.

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 the Dancing Dolls of Jackson, stars of the reality show Bring It! and part of a long Southern tradition of majorette dancing.

On the mysterious death of a high school basketball star in Dallas.

The story of the Refugee Olympic team.

Life as an Olympic-level archer.

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

A profile of Ken Griffey, Jr., six years after he last played a baseball game.

On being — and playing for — Lady Vols basketball coach Pat Summitt.

A former Ohio National Guardsman recalls being dunked on by LeBron James as a teenager — and how the James helped get him through the Iraq War.

Just before his first NBA game, an 18-year-old LeBron James was asked about the pressure of controlling the combined fortunes of a city, major corporations, and the league. “I can handle it,” he said.

In the city of Rosario, some fans have evolved into a mafia with an illicit cash flow and a stable of hit men. A look inside their homicidal turf war.

When the Champ met Castro.