The catfishing of Chris Andersen.

The story of a high school basketball star’s sexual abuse conviction and its aftermath, told from all sides.

The Chinese team heads to the home of elite running.

“Someone has sliced open soccer’s hourglass, and the sand has come pouring out on to the streets.”

A profile of Bosnian striker Vedad Ibisevic, who has come home after escaping the war more than 20 years ago.

“Formal bullfighting is an art, a tragedy, and a business. To what extent it is an art depends on the bulls and the men who are hired to kill them, but it is always a tragedy and it is always a business.”

A Little League season in Camden, New Jersey, where the murder rate is 17 times the national average.

Joe Frazier vs. Muhammad Ali, 20 years after their final fight.

The Muay Thai fighters of Klong Prem.

An oral history of the 2002 Western Conference finals between the Los Angeles Lakers and Sacramento Kings.

Previously: Jonathan Abrams on the Longform Podcast.

On May 16, 1913, after he’d spent years earning a chance at American stardom, Canary Islander shortstop Alfredo Cabrera played his one and only Major League Baseball game.

Policing Tottenham Hotspur fans.

A trip to Turkey for a soccer game between bitter rivals and its accompanying madness.

A profile of the Los Angeles Clippers owner, an oft-sued real estate baron with a documented racist streak and a penchant for heckling his own players, on the occasion of him winning an NAACP lifetime achievement award.

The life and death of Pat Tillman.

The unequal risk of climbing Mount Everest.

The story of Rubin “Hurricane” Carter’s exoneration.

A season with the American Football League of China.

Inside the lack of an investigation into Florida State Heisman Trophy winner Jameis Winston.

On a basketball coach starting over at the lowest levels of the game after his ascendant NCAA career ended in a hazy tabloid scene at a Cleveland crackhouse.

Yasiel Puig’s journey to the Dodgers.

How to buy college football players, in the words of a man who delivers the money.

Jai Alai once packed Florida’s frontons with gamblers and glamor. Today, America is down to a single top-level pro who plays under the name Tevin in honor of Tevin Campbell.

The cheerleader who sued the Raiders for failure to pay minimum wage.