ZURICH, Switzerland (AP) — The U.S. was knocked off the top spot in FIFA's latest women's rankings by world champion Spain.

Shigeko Kagawa, a 114-year-old retired physician from Nara Prefecture, has became Japan’s oldest living person, following the ...

Colorado Buffaloes coach Deion Sanders was one of the best overall athletes in his playing days. Coach Prime is arguably the greatest defensive back in football ...

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

1902 — Jim Jeffries knocks out Bob Fitzsimmons in the eighth round ... s first quadruple gold medalist and the first U.S. woman to win four in a single Olympics. 1998 — Three spectators are killed — ...

VIDEO ABOVE | Jim Thorpe’s Presidential Medal of Freedom on display at ... By 1912, he competed in the Olympics, winning gold medals in the pentathlon and the decathlon. However, those medals were ...

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

HISTORY's latest sports documentary focuses on Jim Thorpe, who was voted the greatest athlete of the first half-century in 1950 ahead of Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey and others.

Jim Thorpe: Lit by Lightning tells the story of the Sac and Fox/Potawatomi sports icon, often called the greatest all-around athlete in history, whose accomplishments and struggles still resonate ...

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.

OLYMPICS;Torch Run Takes a Wrong Turn When it comes to honoring Jim Thorpe, the 1912 Olympic decathlon and pentathlon champion who is considered by many the greatest athlete of the first half of ...