The Quidditch World Cup sounds dorky, and make no mistake: it is. But these sorcery-loving Harry Potter fans play pretty rough, as Eric Hansen found out when he captained a bad-news team of ex-athletes, ultimate Frisbee studs, slobs, drunks, and some people he knows from Iceland. Brooms up, and may the best Muggles win.

When London threw its name into the hat for the 2012 Olympics, many had doubts. Not former sport minister Tessa Jowell. Interviewing Tony Blair, Ken Livingstone, and others Jowell recruited to her cause, Michael Joseph Gross details the grueling, often farcical campaign that won the city its prize—plus a $14.5 billion tab.

When Don Waters finally read the unpublished memoir given to him by his late father—an absentee figure he grew up resenting—he was shocked to learn that the old man hung with Greg Noll during surfing’s golden age in California. Sounds like grounds for a quest.

He's won again! He's back! Or so we're told again and again as we prepare for the most highly-anticipated Masters in years. But the sad truth is that Tiger Woods—the real Tiger—is still the same cursing, pouting, hermetically sealed prima donna he's always been, before the car wreck, before the affairs, before the fall. And if all that didn't change him, then nothing ever will.

The lost tribe of sportswriters known as the Chipmunks.

A moment of not-silence for football's suddenly altered version of the same reality.

Sunday at TPC Sawgrass is Mother's Day, and no woman has balanced the demands of the game and parenthood with more grace than Barbara Nicklaus.

What happens when double dutch and other schoolyard games are combined with serious speed, skill, and swagger?

A near-death experience involving his wife and newborn son in 2003 served as an epiphany for Phil Mickelson. Since then the four-time major champion has quietly used his wealth and position to better the lives of a wide variety of people. Here are their stories...

Ashima Shiraishi is redefining the physical tools required to be an elite climber. Next up? Sixth grade.