Ashima Shiraishi is the most talented rock climber in the world. She’s also 14.

A photographer captured the moment when a race organizer confronted a woman who’d snuck into the race.

A legend hangs on.

The Rattlesnake Derby is like a bass-fishing tournament, except you really don’t want a bite.

On the quarterback everyone loves to hate.

Bobby Fischer unravels before the 1972 World Chess Championships, a.k.a. the “Match of the Century.”

Brian Chavez was supposed to be the one who made it out of Odessa. It didn’t turn out that way.

How a disgruntled group of University of Miami football fans got the head coach fired by flying insulting airplane banners high over Sun Life Stadium.

A profile of the UFC fighter after her first loss.

An interview with Tiger Woods as he turns 40.

Andrea Duke is 36. She began running marathons competitively two years ago. She’s already qualified for the Olympic Trials.

How the Caltech basketball team, losers of 310 straight conference games, figured out a formula for winning.

What happened after the first openly gay player in Division I men’s basketball came out.

How a tiny island 5,000 miles from the U.S. mainland has produced so many NFL players.

On God, childhood, and baseball.

The death of a high school football player and the life that has followed for the kid who made the hit.

A conversation about leadership, Grantland, regret, and the President’s favorite conspiracy theories.

Paul Phua rose from a Borneo numbers runner to being the biggest bookmaker in the world. Then he found poker.

Michael Phelps returns to his Olympic training after a 45-day stint at The Meadows.

On May 12, 2014, Nicole Holder told Charlotte police that she had been assaulted by Greg Hardy. He was arrested, charged, and convicted. Then the case was dismissed on appeal. After a season out of the league, Hardy is playing for the Dallas Cowboys. Owner Jerry Jones has called him a “real leader.”

This is the story, and the photos, of what happened that night.

The first sports bra was invented in 1977. It was two jockstraps sewn together.

The disgraced former FIFA president tries to defend himself while eating boiled beef.

A profile of Henry Hook, the world’s best crossword puzzler, who died this week.

How one woman’s sexual assault by four University of Oregon football players in 1980 unwittingly led to the state’s expansive free speech protections.

“Norbert Grupe—a Nazi soldier’s son, boxer, professional wrestler, failed actor, criminal, and miserable human being who was never so happy as when he could make someone hate him—was once a man so beautiful that other men wanted to paint him.”