Jim Thorpe won two golds at the 1912 Olympics, then had them stripped (and posthumously restored this year). ... Iva Miller, and was recruited by the New York Giants to play baseball.

It’s been over a century, but Olympic athlete Jim Thorpe will finally be recognized for his sporting dominance. On Friday, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced they will reinstate ...

More than a century late but better late than never, the Olympic powers-that-be at long last have restored Jim Thorpe to his deserved place in sports history. The records he set and gold medals he ...

And back in Jim Thorpe the town, where tourism is thriving, the story of Jim Thorpe the man, gets a little complicated. For one thing, Thorpe himself never set foot in the town while he was alive.

Given permission to try, Thorpe clears the bar with ease, accomplishing in street clothes, and in his spare time, what would have been a school-record high jump. From the time Thorpe returned to the ...

After well over a century, Jim Thorpe -- a Native American track and field athlete -- has been reinstated as the sole gold medalist of the 1912 Olympic pentathlon and decathlon events in Stockholm.