Riding along with the Mets broadcast trio, the main reason to watch the team.

A road trip through an athletic career.

A profile of Tiger Woods at 21.

The precarious existence of NFL placekickers.

Hanging out with the AirHogs of Grand Prairie.

Ted Williams grows old.

Black excellence in the land of tennis.

The 20-year-old is poised to burst into the top tier of women’s tennis. Can she also burst Japan’s expectations of what it means to be Japanese?

On mascots.

His brain and body shattered in a horrible accident as a young boy, Bret Dunlap thought just being able to hold down a job, keep an apartment, and survive on his own added up to a good enough life. Then he discovered running.

The improbable rise of Dallas Wings star Liz Cambage.

Nothing can match Cuban post-season baseball fever.

Glory, grief, and the race for the Triple Crown.

One of the most accomplished Himalayan guides works at an outdoor retailer in Lower Manhattan.

A profile of Jordan at 50.

In her fight to end sexual abuse, the Olympic champion is challenging the very institutions she led to glory.

The ultra-athlete and the doubters.

Petra Kvitova’s long road back.

The rise and fall of CrossFit’s science crusader.

Catching “the world’s most prolific criminal fixer of soccer matches.”

How the children of African immigrants came to control the destiny of teams in France and Belgium and what it says about European identity.

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.

The life and times of Myrtis Dightman, who broke the color barrier in professional rodeo and became one of the best bull riders who ever lived.

“The job is to be enough of a personality that they want to know what you think.”

He was the best alpinist of his generation, a quiet, unassuming Canadian known for bold ascents of some of the world’s most iconic peaks. Four months ago, at the age of 25, he traveled to Alaska to join climber Ryan Johnson for a first ascent outside Juneau. They never came back.