26.2 at 50

By BY THE NEW YORK TIMES AND JERÉ LONGMAN from NYT Sports The New York City Marathon’s 50th running is on Sunday. This is the story of one race, five boroughs, dozens of champions and over a million hopeful runners.https://nyti.ms/3mKYVxC

The Moving Moments as the Paralympics Ended

By BY CHANG W. LEE AND GWEN KNAPP from NYT Sports Sights from Tokyo as the Games wrapped up.https://nyti.ms/3hrxvtR

Dispatch From the Paralympics

By BY CHANG W. LEE from NYT Sports What happened in competition during the first week of competition in Tokyo.https://nyti.ms/3zJIx4A

Live Updates: Photos from the Belmont Stakes

By BY HIROKO MASUIKE AND VICTOR J. BLUE from NYT Sports New York Times photographers bring you scenes from the final race of the Triple Crown schedule.https://nyti.ms/3uU3Vkk

Skateboarding’s Cardinal Rule: Dare to Be You

By BY JOHN BRANCH from NYT Sports We asked photographers across the country to document how skateboarders come together to foster community.https://nyti.ms/34uwU3u

Vanessa Bryant Uses Her Platform to Battle the Powerful

By BY JONATHAN ABRAMS from NYT Sports Through social media and a lawsuit, she is trying to hold law enforcement to account in ways that are uncommon for women, and especially for women of color.https://nyti.ms/32nZrGS

Scenes from the First Rounds of the Masters

By BY DOUG MILLS from NYT Sports Our staff photographer Doug Mills brings us an inside look at Augusta National.https://nyti.ms/2PIlUvL

It’s March. Is It Still Madness?

By BY GILLIAN R. BRASSIL from NYT Sports At the N.C.A.A. basketball tournaments this year, the intensity is on the court but not in the stands.https://nyti.ms/3rpn2RE

The Iditarod for Teens

By BY MARLENA SLOSS from NYT Sports The Junior Iditarod, the longest race in Alaska for competitors under 18, is a chance for young mushers to guide sled dogs through nearly 150 miles of Alaskan wilderness.https://nyti.ms/2N1a3aL

Muhammad Ali as You’ve Never Seen Him

By BY GEORGE GENE GUSTINES from NYT Sports A new graphic novel mixes comic book art and rarely seen photography to depict the legendary 1974 fight between Ali and George Foreman.https://nyti.ms/3byDQQp

A Quiet Life of Loud Home Runs: Hank Aaron in Photographs

By BY THE NEW YORK TIMES from NYT Sports The slugging outfielder was a rock of consistency for 23 seasons. He was a superstar unlike any before him — or any since.https://nyti.ms/2MbS5Bv

Mourning at the Places Where ‘El Dios’ Walked

By BY ANITA POUCHARD SERRA AND RORY SMITH from NYT Sports During three national days of mourning for Diego Maradona, Argentines traveled — sometimes hundreds of miles — to honor him at the sites where his talent once made them smile.https://nyti.ms/3lA6uU7

Leonard Kamsler, a Dissecting Golf Photographer, Dies at 85

By BY GLENN COLLINS from NYT Sports He pioneered the use of strobe photography to break down a golfer’s swing. He was also innovative, even crafty, in documenting P.G.A. tournaments for decades.https://nyti.ms/3m9HeVK

One Nation, Under Maradona

By BY THE NEW YORK TIMES from NYT Sports Images from the life of one of soccer’s — and Argentina’s — biggest icons.https://nyti.ms/2J31tq2

The World’s Stadiums Become a Lifeline

By Unknown Author from NYT Sports Soccer fields, football stadiums, tennis courts and martial arts arenas have been filling gaps in health care systems overwhelmed by the coronavirus pandemic.https://nyti.ms/2SqoK6v

Eat, Pray, Kevin Love

By BY ALEX WONG from NYT Sports Coming off a losing season with the Cleveland Cavaliers, Love found what he had been missing: time to travel.https://nyti.ms/2o4jCJn

Eat, Pray, Kevin Love

By BY ALEX WONG from NYT Sports Coming off a losing season with the Cleveland Cavaliers, Love found what he had been missing: time to travel.https://nyti.ms/2P89WZw

The Everest Climber Whose Traffic Jam Photo Went Viral

By BY TIM MUTRIE from NYT Sports Nirmal Purja snapped the photograph of an overcrowded Mount Everest summit while on a quest to climb the 14 tallest mountains in the world in record time.https://nyti.ms/30iwiO9

The Long and Surprising History of Roller Derby

By JENNIFER HARLAN from NYT Sports “Noise, color, body contact” for all.https://nyti.ms/2GxtBgj

N.B.A. Photographers ‘Do It for the Gram,’ Too

By ALEX WONG from NYT Sports New technology and the rise of social media have changed what it means to take pictures of the N.B.A. One new requirement: making the athletes look good on Instagram.https://nyti.ms/2G9GEUm