How race and recollection still frame an Alabama football fatality 40 years later.

A decorated college track coach, forced to resign because of an affair she had with a athlete 10 years before, fights back.

The rigors of youth football.

Sex in the NBA in the wake of Magic Johnson’s HIV announcement.

The lost dream of Korleone Young, a high school basketball star who skipped college and flamed out after only one NBA season.

Charlie Rowan was a small-time cage fighter who couldn’t catch a break. He owed money to impatient people and needed to start over. Late one night, he came up with a plan.

On boxer Canelo Alvarez.

On lucha libre’s exóticos, “wrestlers who dress in drag and kiss their rivals, never quite revealing whether the joke is on their opponents, themselves or conservative Mexican society at large.”

A profile of the NFL quarterback gone bust.

In January, the body of a 17-year-old athlete was found in his high school’s gym. The authorities ruled it an accident. His friends and family aren’t convinced.

In search of the former boxing champ, who refuses to believe he has HIV.

On September 20, 1973, 50 million Americans watched Bobby Riggs lose to Billie Jean King in a tennis match dubbed “The Battle of the Sexes.” This spring, a man named Hal Shaw came forward with a secret he’d held for 40 years: Riggs, in debt to the mafia, had lost on purpose.

On not making the NBA.

“Professional boxing is the only major American sport whose primary, and often murderous, energies are not coyly deflected by such artifacts as balls and pucks.”

A father and his 9-year-old daughter watch Harvard play Yale in football.

The house at 114 Lake Avenue in Bristol, CT that kept calling Aaron Hernandez, a NFL star by 20, back to “a volatile underworld of guns, drugs, and violence.”

Basketball on a Crow reservation and a player named Jonathan Takes Enemy trying to escape.

A profile of Russell Baze, the winningest jockey in American history.

An interview on nature vs. nurture with the author of The Sports Gene: Inside the Science Of Extraordinary Athletic Performance.

How the heir to a horse racing empire became an informant on the Zetas cartel as they pushed their money laundering operations into the lucrative quarter horse trade.

Billy Dillon was about to sign a contract with the Detroit Tigers. Instead he was convicted–wrongly–of first-degree murder and spent the next 27 years in prison.

How a Peace Corps volunteer turned a high school basketball squad into Afghanistan’s national team.

How cable sports channels extort hundreds of dollars per year out of every cable subscriber for programming that less than 10% regularly watch.

The last great brawling sports team in America—Reggie, Catfish, Goose, Gator, and the Boss—remember their fallen leader.