Over the top

The "Greatest Story Ever Told" is about Jesus himself, but these days you'd half-expect to find that title on a bookseller's sports shelves. A quick glance at the genre shows many epic tales of triumph, glory and agony. Way, way too many, actually.

Gladwell-Simmons III

Bill Simmons and Malcolm Gladwell return for Gladwell-Simmons III: The War to Settle the Score.

The apex of the World Football League

Page 2 celebrates the 35th anniversary of the star-crossed World Football League's only championship game.

From wrestling to stand-up comedy

You spend 25 years wrestling and you decide to call it quits. What do you do? How about try stand-up comedy...

...signature feather boa and glitter sunglasses by professional wrestler Chyna Wednesday July 14, 1999 during a World Wrestling Federation press conference at the Target Center in Minneapolis. Ventura, who wrestled under the name Jesse "The...

Actor Quinton Aaron and pro wrestling? Hmmm

...and 360 pounds and posing with a WWE championship belt, could survive against the brutes in pro wrestling? "I'm not really an athlete," said actor Quinton Aaron, who portrayed football player Michael Oher in...

Mark Cuban: I can take Vince McMahon

...into mixed martial arts. And his television network, HDNet, is a big proponent of MMA. But pro wrestling? So I asked Cuban about it Wednesday night. (FYI, he prefers interviews via e-mail. I kid...

Inside the Celebrity Boxing Federation

The Celebrity Boxing Federation is ... well, you really need to see it firsthand to believe it.

NFL Pregame Ritual (Week 10)

No other media outlet prepares you for NFL Sunday like Page 2 does with the Pregame Ritual.

The Weekly Best for 11/10

Welcome to the Weekly Best, giving you the cream of the crop in sports, pop culture and beyond.

Q&A with MMA's War Machine

John "War Machine" Koppenhaver talks about his porn career.

Stay away from these picks

Bill is on a roll picking NFL games so he politely asks you to stay away from his picks if you've been having bad luck.

Mulligans for the entire sports world

Page 2 suggests the entire sporting world take a page from golf to erase its worst memories.

Breaking down everything from Week 6

Bill Simmons breaks down the Week 6 matchups on the field, off the field and everywhere in between.

This Sporting Life: Strange bedfellows

Jeff MacGregor wonders which pursuit makes any sense: Linda McMahon's call to politics or Rush Limbaugh's call to ownership?