Andrew Heisel

Willie Burton's 53-point game for the Philadelphia 76ers on December 13, 1994 is all the more remarkable given what he went through to accomplish it.

Comparisons between American football and Roman gladiator games are common. Do historians think they're apt?

Long before copper bracelets and nanobubbles, the sports world—and America, too—went all-in on the pseudoscience of biorhythms.

Teams have found out that angry mascots appeal more to fans than friendly mascots.

Jeff Blake was a star quarterback in the NFL and he says that ball deflation is both commonplace and a distraction from the NFL's real problems.

There has always been a debate over the last two minutes of NBA games—too exciting or too dull, too slow or too fast. It hasn't always been a great conversation.

For decades, one of basketball's most beloved techniques has been under assault by ardent old-schoolers who want the dunk dead and buried.

We got a bunch of NFL kickers to talk about all the ways they used to doctor game balls because investigative journalism is what we do here.

The "Heads Up" program is supposed to make football safer, but all it's doing is shifting blame onto players for the NFL's brain trauma crisis.

The same drug used in lethal injections and CIA mind-control plots was used by an NFL team to determine if a player was faking an obvious injury.

The argument remains that NFL players knew the dangers of playing football, but decades of reports show that no one—players included—knew the full scope of the danger.