The multiple stories behind an iconic college football photo.

A profile of “the seven-time defending UFC light-heavyweight champion, practically unbeatable, and already maybe the greatest fighter of all time.”

Every time a bicyclist rides on an open road, we entrust their lives to a safety net of legal protection and basic human decency. That system has failed.

When should a football player, and in particular one who has suffered three concussions in 10 months, retire?

When 16 women live in a house, compete on a UFC reality show, and punch each other in the face.

Ann Casey pulled herself out of poverty by becoming one of the most revered wrestlers in America. Then she was shot by a drug-running truck driver. This is the story of her comeback.

The flawed data on safety equipment.

Inside the world of bass fishing cheaters.

Life, death, and last year’s Auburn-Alabama game.

“I was in the visiting clubhouse waiting to interview one of the Oakland A’s this year when one of the players called, ‘Here, pussy’—as though he were calling a cat. But of course, he hadn’t lost Fluffy; he’d found a woman in his locker room.”

Last summer, Gia Allemand took her own life in a New Orleans apartment complex. The first person on the scene was her boyfriend, NBA star Ryan Anderson. This is the story of how he survived.

An investigation into sexual abuse in youth sports, with a focus on USA Swimming.

To save himself, a basketball recruit testified against his mother.

“We, the writers—a word I am using in its most primitive sense—arrived in Chicago about 10 days before the baffling, bruising, an unbelievable two minutes and six seconds at Comiskey Park. We will get to all that later.”

The tragic romance of Jim Irsay, the shrewd owner of the Indianapolis Colts, and Kimberly Wundrum, a mother who shared his longtime addiction to painkillers, that ended with her overdosing in the secret condo he bought her.

Relief pitcher Donnie Moore is best known for giving up a crucial home run during Game 5 the 1986 ALCS. It’s not what led to his suicide a few years later.

A trip to the U.S. Open of ping-pong.

The reverberations of an avalanche.

A Jamaican cricket legend bowls in Brooklyn.

An essay on the pitcher, friendship and death.

An essay on Derek Jeter.

On the importance of skateboarding.

On domestic violence and the NFL.

An investigation into who knew what, and when.

The author examines his terrible football career.