What happend to Serafim Todorov after the 1996 Olympic featherweight semifinals.

Bill Bradley was a Rhodes scholar, a three-term U.S. Senator and a presidential candidate. But before all that, he was the best college basketball player in the country.

The death of Bobby Phills, an NBA player who made one terrible mistake.

“The regular average layman couldn’t see what I see. And the way they’re painting the trainer is all wrong. Look at him there, screaming, Do this! and Do that! I never had anyone telling me what to do. I did it. Shouting at the fighter like that makes him look like an animal, like a horse to be trained.”

Ronnie O’Sullivan is the best snooker player in the world. He’s also the most tormented.

The making of an all-time great video game.

For a few weeks a few years ago, Jeremy Lin was on top of the basketball world. Now he’s riding the bench, being taunted by Kobe Bryant, and trying to figure out what the hell happened.

An athlete without arms or legs tries to get a spot on a the national wheelchair rugby team.

What happened to one of the most hated basketball players in NCAA history after playing a single season at Georgetown.

Billionaire Marcelo Claure wants to help David Beckham bring professional soccer to South Florida. He just doesn't want to talk about it.

Twelve columns about the boxer’s descent, originally published in the Chicago Daily News and the Chicago Sun-Times.

A profile of a promising young runner.

Daniel Norris lives out of his car. He’s also the #1 pitching prospect for the Toronto Blue Jays.

A profile of Sage Kimzey, the 20-year-old king of rodeo.

The team’s grand, analytics-driven experiment led by a business school grad who won the GM job after giving a “PowerPoint presentation that Sixers executives now recall as an ‘investment thesis.’”

Lester Cotton’s transformation from reluctant football player to top Alabama recruit, and the hopes and dreams of a neighborhood that ride on his shoulders.

The pecking order of All-Star Weekend sex-with-basketball-player-or-rapper hopefuls.

What’s the reason for Mike Tyson’s continuing appeal?

On former North Carolina basketball coach Dean Smith, who died Saturday, and his battle with dementia.

Irina Pavolva is trying to steer the Brooklyn Nets through a rough patch. Will she make it?

Inside Roger Goodell’s troubling (or wildly successful, depending on who you ask) tenure as NFL commissioner.

Cheryl Stearns wanted to become the first woman to skydive 20,000 times. She came up 14 jumps short.

A 58-year-old diabetic and his team of amateur rugby players attempt to qualify for the 1984 Summer Olympics in rowing.

The unbelievable life of Fray Tormenta.

How ESPN anchor Stuart Scott battled cancer.