goodreads/sports
They led a cycling revolution in a country where women were forbidden to ride. When the Taliban returned to power, their only hope was a harrowing escape to an uncertain future.
The long read: I was once Ireland’s No 1 player, and tried for years to climb the global ranks. But life at the bottom of the top can be brutal
She overcame trust issues and chartered a yacht. Now Caitlin Clark is ready for March.
The Netflix series “Sunderland ’Til I Die” serves as a thesis both for fandom and for the inevitability of its disappointments.
After the 2022 All-Star Game, Morant's misconduct became more frequent -- and dangerous. Since then, serious allegations have emerged. Lawsuits and subpoenas remain open. And a 24-year-old superstar's career is on the brink.
Once the next big thing in American sports, Jai Alai has all but completely disappeared over the past 20 years. But in Miami, the game is still played for much smaller crowds and stakes.
The long read: A series of financial scandals have rocked Italy’s most glamorous club. But is the trouble at Juventus symptomatic of a deeper rot in world football?
Stolz, the 18-year-old from Wisconsin, won three gold medals at the speedskating world championships, finishing his turns in a way that seemed like something out of a storybook.
Erik Sowinski is a professional pacer, a talented runner who is in high demand on starting lines, and nowhere to be found at the finish.
When the top teams in Greece meet, the story lines, and the rivalries, regularly extend far beyond the soccer field.
Gary Hunt is an enigma. He trains with the intensity of a modern athlete, but relaxes like a sportsman of a bygone era. He is fiercely competitive but unbelievably laid-back. How did he become the greatest cliff diver of all time?
He won four Super Bowls and retired as the undisputed greatest. What came next was turning a legacy into a life.
Eleven-year-old Victoria has her sights set on playing Little League with the boys. She goes through tryouts and is told to learn to cook…
Dave Bresnahan never made it past AA, but, thanks to a specially prepared potato, he holds a place in baseball lore
The legendary Dodgers broadcaster, who died Tuesday at age 94, was a modern Socrates, only more revered. He was simultaneously a giant and our best friend.
Football in Russia was booming after the 2018 World Cup - now, thanks to the invasion of Ukraine, it promises to keep on shrinking
Participants in the Tennessee race must negotiate extreme temperatures, wild terrain and more than 50,000 feet of accumulated ascent
In 2019, Charles Conwell unintentionally ended Patrick Day’s life with his fists. Now he’s trying to make sense of his life, and boxing itself.
He’s the greatest marathoner in history, a national hero in Kenya, and an icon for runners around the world. But despite his fame and wealth, Eliud Kipchoge chooses to live the most basic lifestyle. Cathal Dennehy travels to the highlands of Kenya for an inside look at his training camp and to meet a champion with a quiet, complex personality
James A. Garfield High School in Seattle is a place where you can feel the history thrum throughout the hallways. Quincy Jones and Jimi Hendrix were students here. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke …
In 2002, Kobe Bryant's surprise arrival at Harlem's legendary court caused a stir. This is the oral history of what happened when the Lakers great put his streetball cred on the line.
‘He was just out there drilling long threes in his shades and hitting cutters. It was really incredible.’
On the Long Island Inferno, two fathers, both with complicated pasts took it all too far. Neither man was ever the same.
Valdosta might be a 24-time state football champ, but lately its program has been rocked by a racial discrimination lawsuit filed by a former coach, the hiring of controversial coach Rush Propst and a secret recording that alleged cheating by SEC powers.
Indiana is set to host a Big Dance unlike any other, evoking the madness—from buzzer beaters to bourbon-soaked basketball—of the state's fabled high school tournament.
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Iga Swiatek of Poland came out of nowhere to win the French Open in October. A sports psychologist was with her all the way.
How did an executive in one of the league's smallest markets steal millions of dollars -- and get away with it for years?
For many female wrestlers, the toughest challenge is finding opponents.
In suburban Fort Worth the frail psyche of a football prodigy collided with the crazed ambition of his dad, who himself had been a high school football star way back when. The consequences were deadly.
How Stan Smith went from a "decent" tennis player to the most popular trainer on the planet
As the son of African immigrants, Antetokounmpo was unwelcome in Athens. Then he showed promise as a basketball star.
Over the past 20 years, Gregg Popovich has sliced an exclusive culinary trail across America -- all for a singular purpose. This is the story of his legendary team dinners, and how they have served as a pillar of the Spurs' decadeslong dynasty.
Why the world was wrong about the "worst Olympian ever."
In 2017, the Hall of Fame Louisville coach’s career collapsed under a string of scandals, leading to his firing from the school he had coached for 16 years. Now, Pitino is finding himself in Greece, coaching Panathinaikos, working for a self-styled Bond
Any idiot can get married. Any idiot can be a father. An NBA title? That’s work. That’s worth crying over.
You didn’t think this was one of those fairytales where the kid gets some pep talk, and everything changes right? It REALLY isn’t that.
The Portuguese super-agent Jorge Mendes joined forces with investors from Shanghai and planned to cash in on buying and selling athletes, documents show.
Unlikely comrades Diana Taurasi and Brittney Griner play overseas for the money. As it turns out, they also simplify their lives.
Courtney Dauwalter specializes in extremely long races. But her success in winning them has opened a debate about how men’s innate strength advantages apply to endurance sports.
On the football field, one team went from six to eleven. Another went from eleven to six. And both faced challenges they didn’t expect.
Dudes like me ain’t supposed to talk about this type of stuff. I’m about to tell you some real shit. Things I haven’t told anybody.
A long-dormant police investigation gives the case new life.
Dining out with courtsiders, a rogue, impish species in the tennis ecosystem.
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Sammy Gelfand is the numbers guy behind the Golden State Warriors’ success. Some pretty good players help, too.
On Montana’s Flathead Indian Reservation, basketball is about much more than winning.
A profile of UConn basketball coach Geno Auriemma, who has not found peace despite unprecedented success.
“The reason women-only billiards tournaments exist is not because the players can’t beat men. It’s because they can.”
'God's Quarterback' was the archetype American success story, but the triumphs everyone saw masked the inner turmoil no one knew about.