Before racking up over 1,000 tackles and winning Super Bowl XXIX, Gary Plummer was an undrafted nose tackle-turned-linebacker who played
In 1980, the intersection of sports and politics came to a bizarre head. Faced with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, President Jimmy
The Polish press called it ‘Kentomania!’, an American basketball player who filled arenas beyond capacity and dazzled audiences
“Her legacy is everywhere you look,” says Glenn Stout, author of ‘Young Woman and the Sea’. In the late 1990s, Stout was working with David Halberstam
The game had everything - great teams, players, coaches, passionate fans, spectacular touchdowns, five lead changes, and a thrilling conclusion!
In the late 1940s, German brothers Adolf and Rudolf Dassler parted ways in a bitter sibling quarrel.
One of the greatest NFL quarterbacks of the 1980s, Joe Theismann came out of Notre Dame as a Heisman Trophy contender and an All-American in both football and academia.
He spent 12 years with the …
Beloved, respected, and even idolized, Ayrton Senna was one of the world’s leading drivers on the Formula One circuit when he met death on the track
In 1989, when Tracy Edwards made it known that she was entering the 32,000-mile Whitbread Round the World Race with an all-female yacht
Before he became America’s 45th Commander-in-Chief, and 47th President-elect, Donald Trump was many things in the business world.
“Bowling has been a great American pastime for well over 100 years,” explains Tom Clark, Commissioner of the Professional Bowlers Association
Forty-seven years ago, Reggie Jackson knocked 3 home runs in the 6th game of the World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers,
It’s more than 5 decades since ping-pong turned the tables on America’s frozen relations with the People’s Republic of China.
Following my father's death in 1991, I discovered a simple locked box that had been my dad’s when he was young.
Authors, Mark and Matthew Jacob, are out with a new book, ‘Globetrotter: How Abe Saperstein Shook Up the World of Sports’.
The toughest sport on dirt is planting its western roots in America’s biggest city. “Who ever thought there would be a PBR team in Brooklyn?”
On December 15, 1930, tea mogul Thomas Lipton stepped into New York’s City Hall to collect a trophy. Mayor Jimmy Walker
“College football began with the Northeast schools and Yale had the best athletes,” says Rich Marazzi, author of two books on the subject