A trip to learn about Myanmar’s traditional sport, chinlone, goes awry.

A broke agent hustles on the extreme fringe of pro basketball.

The baseball game that launched a career in fiction.

Joe Namath believes hyperbaric oxygen treatment can reverse the brain damage he and others suffered playing football, so much so that a treatment center carries his name. The science, however, doesn’t support his claims.

“The whole thing has a sort of Taylor Swift-meets-jihad feel.”

The best women’s tennis player of all-time opens up.

“This is a story about the most magical, mystical sport on earth, and the Detroit lifer who improbably became its king. Also, it’s about an art heist.”

Alberto Salazar is one of the most celebrated running coaches in the world. Is he also a cheater?

The hockey legend’s new life as a medical icon for a questionable stem-cell treatment.

A 42-year-old man with small hands and a dream.

How Sepp Blatter controlled soccer.

Searching for the line between courage and humility on an expedition to Cirque of the Unclimbables, a remote ring of perfect rock-climbing mountains in Canada.

Doping is a problem for equine sports, too.

Football-related brain damage made Rickie Harris fall from the heights of the NFL to serving a DUI sentence in his ex-wife’s basement.

On Amaris Tyynismaa, the 14-year-old star runner who has Tourette’s.

Pacquiao and his entourage.

On Juliana Buhring, a former cult member who became the first woman to bike around the world.

An essay on Floyd Mayweather Jr. as both.

Is it homage? An art project? Whatever it is, it is very Brooklyn 2015.

Kate Matrosova was a classic overachiever and, at 32, had everything to live for. Still she set out alone into the mountains of New Hampshire—and a deadly storm.

The double life of Aaron Hernandez.

The woman that the mixed martial arts star beat nearly to death tells her side of the story.

Tracing the 3,339 miles the Canadian ran in 1980, on one good leg and one prosthetic limb.

The mysterious death of one of college basketball’s most promising coaches.

Darren Sharper was once an NFL star. He was also a serial rapist, one who law enforcement failed to stop.