Turning the Tables: The Story of Extreme Championship Wrestling

War Without Death: A Year of Extreme Competition in...
Noted Washington Post sports reporter and columnist Mark Maske has written the Moneyball of professional football, a behind-the-scenes account of a year in the life of the on- and off-field...

Bone Games: Extreme Sports, Shamanism, Zen, and the...
Schultheis explores everything from meditation and ultramarathoning to old Indian myths and biofeedback in his quest to recapture a preternatural state he experienced after a near-fatal...

5 common myths about exercise
While some fitness myths, such as "no pain, no gain," are fading fast, many myths about exercise still exist.

Jon Wertheim: September 11 forever alters lives of...
It was a calm Tuesday morning. Summer had just about seeped into fall. The financial markets were relatively stable. The United States, as it had been for the better part of nearly three...

Reyes lifted after getting hit in first at-bat
NL batting leader Jose Reyes has been lifted for a pinch runner after bunting for a base hit in his first at-bat of the New York Mets ' final game of the season.

Gebrselassi pulls out of Tokyo race
World record-holder Haile Gebrselassie has pulled out of Sunday's Tokyo Marathon because of bruising to his knees.

Surfer hospitalized after Calif. shark attack
A surfer is hospitalized after being attacked by a shark off a California beach.