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.

Two years ago, the climbing photographer known as Nathan Smith saw no way out, after struggling for years with gender-identity issues in the male-dominated outdoor industry. Then—slowly, bravely—Nikki introduced herself to the world.

Skiing and partying at the sport’s most dangerous race.

How coach Gregg Popovich’s love of fine wine led to a 20-year run of success in the NBA.

The former NBA player is forever linked to the murder of his girlfriend.

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

A profile of Tiger Woods at 21.

The rise and fall of basketball player Daniel “Gus” Gerard.

“I know that, as a white man, I have to hold my fellow white men accountable.”

How Craig Carton, a morning host on WFAN, ended up running a Ponzi scheme.

At age 17, Bonnie Richardson won the Texas state track team championship all by herself. Then she did it again.

Riding along with the cowgirls bringing women’s bronc riding back to the rodeo.