But locals call it something else now: Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania. Mayor Michael Sofranko is a lifelong Thorper: "In 1970, when we'd go somewhere and they'd say, 'Where you from?' And I'd say ...

Two-time Olympic gold medalist and Pro Football Hall of Fame member James Francis "Jim" Thorpe came into this world on this day in history, May 28, 1888. Born in a one-room cabin in the ...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Jim Thorpe has been reinstated as the sole winner of the 1912 Olympic pentathlon and decathlon in Stockholm — nearly 110 years after being stripped of those gold medals ...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Jim Thorpe has been reinstated as the sole winner of the 1912 Olympic pentathlon and decathlon in Stockholm — nearly 110 years after being stripped of those gold medals ...