Sport

You Used to Need a Doctor's Permission to Run a Marathon: How Amateur Athletics Became Everyone's Game

In the 1960s, doctors warned that jogging could kill you and women were banned from marathons entirely. Today, over 2 million Americans cross finish lines annually, paying hundreds of dollars for the privilege.

Mar 16, 2026

They Smoked Between Innings and Called It Training: The Lost World of the Early Baseball Player

A century ago, professional baseball players drank during road trips, smoked in the dugout, and trained by doing almost nothing at all. The modern MLB athlete lives in a different universe — and the story of how we got from one to the other says something profound about how far our understanding of the human body has come.

Mar 13, 2026