What baseball writers did during the steroid era.

The wild competition to be “worshipped” by Alaska’s most eligible bachelors.

How Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder, with a little help from the Bush Administration, got 140 trees chopped down in a national park to improve his view and ruined the life of a park ranger in the process.

The life of a mid-level bookie.

Tonya Harding, Nancy Kerrigan and the “why me?” misheard around the world.

A profile of the first and only transgender MMA fighter.

Eleven members of an Australian rugby club traveled to Bali. After a bomb went off at a nightclub, only five of them made it home.

On the history, science, and rise of ACL tears.

The story of Orlando “El Duque” Hernandez’s flight from Cuba.

Brazil’s restless youth in the lead-up to the World Cup.

A profile of Avishek Sengupta, who drowned at the Walk the Plank obstacle during an endurance race last year.

The war between Major League Baseball and Alex Rodriguez, “fought with six-figure payoffs in the tanning salons and strip malls of South Florida.”

On faith and football.

How much time does Manny Pacquiao have left?

How to get Americans to “pay $45 to $75 to run for their lives from 1,500-pound, bad-tempered beasts.”

The realities of the fighting life.

Searching for the real reason why a bunch of kids partying at the empty home of an NFL player became a national story.

A profile of former Rutgers basketball coach Mike Rice, who was fired in April after a video of him berating players went viral.

A homegrown boxer sets his sights on the big time.

What did soccer have to do with two brutal murders after a pickup game?

Tyson on his childhood in Brooklyn and the man who changed his life. An excerpt from his upcoming memoir, Undisputed Truth.

After two cycling-related deaths, the social fitness network becomes a target.

A basketball player, broke and without a Plan B, travels across the country for one last shot at glory.

Two very different fates at the Chicago Marathon.