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Olympic hero Jim Thorpe's barnstorming life included one happy year playing baseball in Milwaukee
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWhile Olympic gold medalist and NFL Hall of Famer Jim Thorpe may have been the world's greatest...
Review: A legendary Native athlete is restored to glory by the Olympics and a rich new biography
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoJim Thorpe was both a man and a myth, one that endures a century after his story unfolded. The Native American athlete’s life had the arc of tragedy — a chaotic upbringing; glory in collegiate ...
LeBron James has a point: Why aren’t we asking more about Jerry Jones?
Touchdown Wire via Yahoo Sports· 1 year agoOn November 23, David Maraniss and Sally Jenkins of the Washington Post published a story about...
Tramel's ScissorTales: Why OU-Texas is a bigger get for SEC than USC-UCLA for the Big Ten
The Oklahoman via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSoutheastern Conference commissioner Greg Sankey made an off-hand, but on-point, comment the other...
BookLovers: Five more books to add to your beach bag
The Standard-Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoOur summer reading series continues, BookLovers. Whether you’re headed to Horseneck, Round Hill, or your own backyard, I have — you guessed it — Five...
The 5 best nonfiction books of 2022, according to Mary Ann Gwinn
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year ago(Illustrations by Mel Cerri / For The Times. Book jackets from Little Brown, Liveright, Simon &...
The high five isn’t as old as you think: Do you know who invented it?
WJZY via Yahoo Sports· 4 weeks ago(NEXSTAR) – It’s very likely that humans had figured out how to slap their raised palms together...
"Mobituaries": The final resting place of sports superstar Jim Thorpe
CBS News via Yahoo News· 7 months agoA Pennsylvania community changed its name to Jim Thorpe, after the Olympic champion and Native...
Glenn Burke, MLB's 1st openly gay player, spoke to TODAY's Bryant Gumbel in 1982
TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe former Dodger outfielder sat down with TODAY's Bryant Gumbel to discuss his decision to come out...
This TSU star helped make Nashville 'center of Black basketball in America' in the 1950s
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 1 year agoHe dreamed his way off the harsh streets of Gary, Indiana. "That's where dreams come from," Dick...