Introduction / Mary Pilon and Louisa Thomas
The sporting house / Charles Bock
Yankees strike / Bob Sullivan
Banderillero / Barry Newman
An Athens odyssey skips the medal mark : sailing out of a square story / Kevin Hall
The peanut vendor and the curse / Samuel Graham Felsen
That loser LeBron / Ryan O'Hanlon
Two white kids from New York kicking ass / Brian Platzer
Too lucky in love / Joshua Prager
If you can't beat 'em / Louisa Hall
The great Wimbledon FC heist / Ryan Bailey
The 1908 Olympic marathon / Arthur Conan Doyle
Requiem for the Ivory Coast : the anatomy of Greece's last-minute penalty / Rowan Ricardo Phillips
The "Dewey defeats Truman of sports / James Andrew Miller
Chasing Ashton Eaton : an unintended pursuit of the world's greatest athlete that no one has heard of / Jeremy Taiwo, as told to Stefanie Loh
Galiyeva-ed / Carla Correa
The Kyrgios enigma / Louisa Thomas
Tomato can blues / Mary Pilon
Washington Generals win! / Matt Nissenbaum
The guy wearing a hat / Andrew Lehren
Losing on purpose / Mike Pesca
Larry and the ball / Abby ellin
The loser / Gay Talese.