On October 17, 1973, John McClamrock was paralyzed playing high school football. Doctors doubted he would make it through the night. But he and his mother refused to give up—for more than three decades.

How a Texas university eagerly accepted a top football player as a transfer even though he had just been kicked off another school’s team for a previous incident of violence involving a female student.

A year ago, he was one of the Premier League’s highest-paid players. Now, after angering China and refusing a pay cut, he has simply vanished.

In 1989, USC had a depth chart of a dozen linebackers. Five have died, each before age 50.

A season with the New England Patriots’ 37-year-old quarterback.

A profile of Mo Isom, a former goalie on the LSU women’s soccer team now trying to kick for the football team.

Can one agonizing defeat destroy a life?

Todd Marinovich was engineered from birth to be the greatest quarterback of all time. He ended up doing heroin in the locker room. A 2010 National Magazine Award winner, reprinted on Longform.

Inside the Rams-Chargers marriage.

Gun violence, high school football and what coaches are doing to keep their players safe

Texans receiver DeAndre Hopkins says he owes his career to his mom. When you hear her remarkable story of survival, you’ll understand his devotion.

The family history behind college football’s most talked-about player.

The life and death of Georgia Frontiere, who was the only woman owner in professional sports when her St. Louis Rams won the 2000 Super Bowl.

An upstart football league goes horribly awry during its first season,.

Meet the Edward Snowden of European soccer.

On the start of the high school football season in Odessa, Texas. An adaptation published alongside the release of Bissinger’s 1990 book of the same name, which led to the movie and the show.

On a pair of kickers.

Eighteen years ago, NFL wide receiver Rae Carruth conspired to kill the woman carrying his child. The woman, Cherica Adams, died. The child, Chancellor Lee Adams, did not.

How a professional football player became a top-flight mathematician.

A road trip through an athletic career.

The precarious existence of NFL placekickers.

Inside the NCAA’s years-long, twisting investigation into Mississippi football.

The NFL is doing everything it can to avoid paying former players who have dementia.

Mechelle McNair on remembering her late husband, NFL star Steve, and moving forward.

An encyclopedic evisceration of the NFL owner and former Six Flags chairman.