​Maeve Kyle, Ireland’s first female track and field Olympian at the 1956 Melbourne Games, has died at 96. Born in Kilkenny in 1928 but spending most of her life in Ballymena where she founded ...

On this day in 1963, Sonny Liston took on Floyd Patterson at the Las Vegas Convention Center for the undisputed heavyweight ...

We were free-range roosters and not Riace bronzes,” once said Livio Berruti, who would become the eponymous athlete of those ...

In 1958, a young fighter left Montana for Chicago and came back with a story he’s told the rest of his life. Francis Turley, who grew up in Musselshell and attended high school in Roundup, once ...

Crusading journalist and an­ti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells-Barnett is born in Holly Springs, Miss. Wells-Bar­nett was a ...

As Daniel Dubois looks to make history against Oleksandr Usyk in their undisputed heavyweight clash at Wembley Stadium, ESPN ...

Elvis Presley, the “king of rock and roll;” John Lennon, the founder, rhythm guitarist, and co-lead vocalist of the Beatles; ...

D C Studios’ highly anticipated upcoming superhero horror movie Clayface has finally had plot details revealed, and it sounds ...

There is no way Cassius Clay should be called "The Greatest," in any category except being a professional thug. He was a draft dodger because he claimed his religion forbade ...

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Ali did his best to sell the fight. He arrived in London with his brother Rudy and, according to Remnick, readily posed for pictures with everyone while wearing a three-piece suit and bowler hat. He ...