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

The planning of Muhammad Ali’s funeral.

On learning to jog.

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.

A profile of the Golden State Warriors head coach.

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

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

How the Raiders got to Las Vegas.

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

Ted Williams grows old.

A profile of a previously unknown rookie pitcher for the Mets who dropped out of Harvard, made a spiritual quest to Tibet, and somewhere along the line figured out how to throw a baseball much, much faster than anyone else on Earth.

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.

(It’s PB&J.)

On the fleeting magic of volleyball.

An NHL goalie on playing with mental illness.