In 1993, his rookie season, more than 1,700 boys were named after Shaquille O’Neal. Now they’ve grown up.

A minute-by-minute account of one of the worst sailing disasters in American history.

Once a Red Sox hero, Curt Schilling’s loud climb towards right-wing media fame may have cost him a spot in the Baseball Hall of Fame. He doesn’t care.

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

How the best tennis player of all time fell in love with the guy who founded Reddit.

On fireworks, massages, Olympic gold, reality TV, marriage, fatherhood—and that incident in Rio.

Remembering the book that changed the way journalists covered the NBA.

Seven months ago, an underdog Brazilian soccer team boarded a plane to play the game of their lives. They never made it.

What it feels like to get hit by a major league fastball.

The planning of Muhammad Ali’s funeral.

A profile of 24-year-old John John Florence.

How Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian government has woven soccer into its grisly campaign of oppression.

For mountaineers, it’s not enough just to get to the top—it’s how you get there that matters.

“Robert Victor Sullivan, whom you’ve surely never heard of, was the toughest coach of them all. He was so tough he had to have two tough nicknames, Bull and Cyclone, and his name was usually recorded this way: coach Bob “Bull” “Cyclone” Sullivan or coach Bob (Bull) (Cyclone) Sullivan. Also, at times he was known as Big Bob or Shotgun. He was the most unique of men, and yet he remains utterly representative of a time that has vanished, from the gridiron and from these United States.”

“Football as we know it is done, because the lawyers are here.”

“The sex abuse is a symptom of a culture that does not allow the athletes to have their voice.”

The NBA’s most “irrationally confident” player tells his story.

He has been in the NBA for 50 years. He’s won nine championships. And he can’t walk away.

Flashbacks from the life of Aaron Hernandez from the person who knew him best, his older brother Jonathan.

How the Raiders got to Las Vegas.

What former NBA coach Monty Williams learned in the wake of losing his wife.

In the era of cord-cutting and mobile viewing, ESPN is at the crossroads.

A day with ESPN’s NFL scoopmaster.

Cyril the Swan was the mascot for a low-level soccer club in the UK. He was known for fighting with other mascots. And refs. And opposing coaches. He also saved the club’s financial fortunes. Then the nine-foot-tall bird became the prime suspect in a serious assault.

On the fleeting magic of volleyball.