Wikimedia Commons/Harris & Ewing Collection Jim Thorpe Jim Thorpe became America’s greatest athlete while trapped in a system ...

The official presentation of the Paycom Jim Thorpe Award takes place in Oklahoma City, following The Home Depot College ...

Tuscaloosa native Joe Lary added to his family legacy recently when he was honored by Marquis Who's Who list for his lifetime ...

Léon Marchand's life changed drastically after he won four gold medals a year ago in the Paris Olympics. He was a national ...

The legacy of the Lary family grew recently as Tuscaloosa native Joe Lary was honored by Marquis Who’s Who, a group that ...

2007 — Michael Rasmussen, the leader of the Tour de France, is removed from the race by his Rabobank team after winning the 16th stage. Rasmussen is sent home for violating (the team’s) internal rules ...

A new TV series titled "THORPE" will dramatize the life of legendary Native American athlete Jim Thorpe, with support from ...

Jim Thorpe didn’t have such connections. But he did recover from the ignominy of having his medals stripped to star both as a ...

An Olympic winter is upon us, and snow sports athletes around the world are preparing so they can hopefully win a medal on the world stage. It wasn’t clear what those medals would look like, but ...

The 2026 Milano Cortina Olympic and Paralympic Winter Olympics medals were unveiled this week at an event in Venice. The medals are described as a "celebration of Italian design and victory ...

VENICE (AP) — The Milan-Cortina Olympics are the first games with two host cities in the name. So the medals for the upcoming Winter Games represent “two halves coming together.” Organizers for the ...

BP announced it had capped its crippled underwater well that sent millions of barrels of crude gushing into the Gulf of Mexico for three months.