The persistent, tragic behavior of professional athletes.

A profile of Costa Rica’s most famous bull, who is responsible for two riders’ deaths and a brand of craft beer.

Inside the Oscar Pistorius murder case.

How pitching phenom Steve Carlton became a yoga-loving conspiracy theorist who calls a concrete bunker his home.

The NFL attempts to set up a beachhead in China.

The brief life and complicated death of Tommy Lasorda’s gay son.

Aside from the wealthiest players, nine out of 10 NFL athletes are likely to be insolvent within 10 years of retirement. A new executive MBA program aims to change that.

The harrowing first ascent of the mountain’s West Ridge.

Former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling needed funding for his ambitious video-game startup. Rhode Island politicians needed jobs and a vision for how to transform the state’s beleaguered economy. The story of a $75 million bet gone bust.

“He has hit rock bottom, and he just hasn’t accepted it yet.” Basketball’s iconoclast is a broke recluse at 37.

Why almost everything we think we know about the iconic photo from Robinson’s first game is wrong.

Charles Pierce’s classic GQ profile of Tiger Woods, annotated.

On Felix Baumgartner and his 24-mile jump.

One year before his death, Mickey Mantle describes a life of drinking.

The crumbling of an American icon.

A trip to the French island of Réunion to report on a bloody battle between surfers and sharks.

“At the gym, he’s not Garrett Holeve, the guy with Down syndrome. He’s G-Money, an up-and-coming fighter with big ambitions.”

How a 100-mile footrace saved a beleaguered town.

How a longtime gambling addict and a small band of his cronies manipulated both the game and betting exchanges from a tiny Berlin cafe, going as far as buying ownerships of teams in order to insure their failure.

Amidst the football-obsessed culture of small-town Christian colleges in Kansas, a player is killed at a party.

In February, Jerusalem’s FC Beitar, the only soccer team in the Israeli Premier League to have never signed an Arab player, signed two Chechnyan Muslims, sparking national controversy and pitting the organization against their ultras fan club La Familia.

The last escape of Anthony Roebles.

The story of Tim Danielson, one of America’s top high school distance runners, who went on to murder his ex-wife.

“He was, it must be said, a pig. And my heart grew fonder.”

An appreciation of the hometown team.