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The Greatest, At Rest

One year ago, a chosen few brought Muhammad Ali home for the last time. This is the story of how they carried out their sacred calling.

The allure of Ole Miss football

"'Born and raised where them Rebel flags hang from them slaves' -- Big K.R.I.T."

When Winter Never Ends

How five days in February reveal what Seattle's signing of Ichiro cannot. The future Hall of Famer is haunted by the life he can't escape.

The FBI vs. FIFA

The exclusive account of how a small band of federal agents and an outsized corrupt official brought down the sports world's biggest governing body.

The Secret History of Tiger Woods

The death of his father set a battle raging inside the world's greatest golfer. How he waged that war -- through an obsession with the Navy SEALs -- is the tale of how Tiger lost his way.

“Why Him, Why Me?”

Two tragic collisions on the football field, separated by 26 years, have brought together a high school linebacker and a former college running back in search of the answer to a life-altering question.

Beyond the Breach

A summer in search of saints, sinners and lost souls in the New Orleans that Katrina left behind.

Believe in Featherbowling

This is the story about the most magical, mystical sport on Earth, and the Detroit lifer who improbably became its king. Also, it's about an art heist.

Awakening the Giant

As Y.A. Tittle's memory fades and his body breaks down, the Hall of Fame QB finds fleeting moments of solace in a daughter's love and a final trip home.

While the World Watched

At the same time Argentina hosted the 1978 World Cup, the nation's dictators were waging their "Dirty War" of repression, kidnappings and torture. As the tournament again draws near, ghastly memories are flooding back.

Michael Jordan Has Not Left The Building

As he turns 50, MJ is wondering whether there are any more asses to kick.

How the Green Bay Packers averted financial ruin in a mysterious blaze of glory

"Curly was well ahead of his time with the idea of Rockwood Lodge," says Bob Harlan, president and CEO of the Packers from 1989 to 2006 and now the team's chairman emeritus. "Maybe too far ahead. Rockwood was a beautiful place that in the end turned out to be a total disaster."

When the Beautiful Game Turns Ugly

A journey into the world of Italy's racist soccer thugs.

The phenom

Career arcs are tricky things, and no one knows if this is Trout's floor or his ceiling.

Down here

"And we believe -- well, maybe all but the Unitarians -- that God himself favors our football teams. On Friday nights and Saturday afternoons, our coaches, some of them blasphemers and backsliders and not exactly praying men the other six days of the week, tell their players to hit a knee and ask his favor at the same exact instant the other team is also asking his favor, which I have always taken to mean that God, all things being equal, favors the team with the surest holder on long field goals."

17 days in November

Everything that would destroy them had already been set in motion when Gregory and Jason Halman squeezed into the narrow staircase that led to the tattoo parlor.

The view from within: Michael Vick's 548 days behind bars

"Michael Vick arrives at Leavenworth in time for lunch. He's led by guards to a small cafeteria and left alone, inmate No. 33765-183. A few days earlier, word passed quickly through this Kansas federal prison that Vick would be serving the remainder of his 23-month sentence for dogfighting conspiracy here, making him the most famous athlete ever to pass through its doors. Vick doesn't pause to scout his new surroundings; he turns around, drops his eyes, grabs a tray and slides down the lunch line. But he feels the stares burning his back, and he hears every whisper. <em>Oh, he's a small dude. I thought he was bigger.</em>"

A tree dies in Auburn

"THE TWO TREES AT TOOMER'S CORNER are little miracles. They grow farther north than most live oaks, and for this species of tree the slightest change in weather can be fatal. It turns out, in a strange bit of symbiosis, the trees don't exist in spite of the town and campus around them. They exist, at least in part, because of them, as the brick and concrete hold several extra degrees of heat, enough to make a difference. The trees need Auburn to survive."