On the career and legacy of America’s most popular wrestler.

An account of Yukon Quest, Alaska’s grueling, thousand-mile dog sled race.

A profile of NFL commissioner Roger Goodell.

On the Israeli national baseball team.

A 16-year-old runner, her coach and the lasting memory of an improbable race.

“This is the story of Billy Conn, who won the girl he loved but lost the best fight ever.”

A profile of 101-year-old marathoner Fauja Singh.

Bob Voulgaris and his math prodigy sidekick attempt to create the perfect betting algorithm.

It was a 3-mile footrace. Thousands were in attendance. So how did Michael LeMaitre disappear?

On the meeting of shaggy-haired American ping pong ace Glenn Cowan and Chinese master Zhuang Zedong (who died this week), and how their fleeting friendship thawed relations between the twon nations during the U.S. team’s historic 1971 tour of China.

A conversation with a 29-year-old approaching his apex.

Investigating a former NFL star’s new business: renting professional athletes to their biggest fans.

A profile of former Duke basketball star Jay Williams a decade after the motorcycle crash that ended his career.

How Singaporean mobster Tan Seet Eng, aka Dan Tan, and a global network of fixers influenced as many 680 soccer matches at the highest levels.

Larry Brown’s mystifying, unpredictable career.

Royce White’s theories of mental illness.

Meet Gene Locks, the onetime Princeton quarterback suing the NFL on behalf of 4,000 former players.

A combat veteran trains to be a college football placekicker.

An investigation into the Dr. Anthony Bosch and his “East Coast version of BALCO,” which allegedly supplied baseball stars Alex Rodriguez, Melky Cabrera and others with performance-enhancing drugs.

On the cranky king of New York sports talk.

Being injured in the NFL.

The story was told by Sports Illustrated, CBS News, and countless others: linbeacker Manti Te’o, Heisman trophy candidate and the face of Notre Dame football, was playing brilliantly despite the tragic loss of his girlfriend to leukemia early in the season. The reporters missed one key element of Te’o’s story, however: the girl hadn’t died. She couldn’t have. She didn’t exist.

On the casting process for New York’s cult leader-like spin instructors.

Life after scoring 100-plus points in a basketball game.

A season with the best 12-year-old football team in Texas.