Kenesaw Mountain Landis takes office as baseball’s commissioner. 1947 — Carl Hubbell, Frank Frisch, Mickey Cochrane, and Lefty Grove are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Built as a venue for wrestling and boxing matches, the Coliseum Arena was the site of Martin Luther King Jr.’s first speech ...

New York has interviewed 13 known candidates for the general manager job as it looks to replace Joe Douglas, who was fired in ...

By Eric Bottjer JOHNNY CHESHIRE, 77, Scottish featherweight, passed in early 2024. Cheshire represented England in the 1968 ...

It is during this period that Joe Louis, ‘The Brown Bomber’ and one of the most ... along with other famous black people and sportsmen including fellow boxer Sugar Ray Robinson could be used to raise ...

Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. More funds are flowing in for the development of the Joe Louis Greenway, including a $10.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of ...

the uncle remarked that “that boy is going to be another Joe Louis.” That sounded OK to him, and the next day he filled an old burlap sack with rags, corn cobs, and Spanish moss, and hung it ...

Martin St. Louis is making an impressive transition from Hall of Fame player to NHL head coach with the Canadiens. The Canadiens beat the Stars 3-1 Thursday night in Dallas, improving their record ...

The sport of boxing is deeply rooted in American culture. For nearly 150 years, the United States has produced wave after wave of talented pugilists and dominated the sweet science on the world stage, ...

Joe T. Robinson will have a new man in charge for the first time in two decades when it takes the field next season, but the face leading the Senators will be a familiar one. The school ...

I’m talking, of course, about the Atlanta Falcons’ young dynamo, Bijan Robinson. With Robinson likely in line for a big contract of his own in the near future, he thanked Barkley for making ...