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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...
Tramel's ScissorTales: How former Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren tried to help Big 12
The Oklahoman via Yahoo News· 1 year agoKevin Warren’s job was Big Ten commissioner. But Warren did his best to fortify the Big 12. Warren,...
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 ...
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...
Los Angeles Times Book Prizes winners announced
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoJames Ellroy enthusiastically accepts the 2022 Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement at the L.A. Times Book Prizes ceremony Friday. (Varon...
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 &...
Azzi: Wake up to Woke this Presidents' Day
Portsmouth Herald via Yahoo News· 1 year ago"If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that," Roberto Clemente said,...
Rachel Howzell Hall, George Saunders, James Hannaham among L.A. Times Book Prize finalists
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe Los Angeles Times Book Prizes recognize works in 12 categories, with winners to be announced at...
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland: Native Americans Have Always Been Citizens
Native News Online via Yahoo News· 1 day agoOn the snowy morning of December 2, 1960, I was born into the arms of my mother in Winslow, Arizona....