Sporting history and individual triumph intertwine in Michael Loynd’s new offering, The Watermen, out June 7 from Ballantine Books. Loynd—who chairs the St. Louis Olympic Committee, is a ...

Sportswriters and historians are constantly on a quest to rediscover a hero or event, forgotten by time, whose story could be immortalized in a book or on film. And once or twice in a decade, one of ...

Michael Loynd’s recently published book The Watermen: The Birth of American Swimming and One Young Man's Fight to Capture Olympic Gold tells the story of America's first swimming champion, Charles ...

Since the modern Olympics began in 1896, Americans have dominated the swimming competition, winning 578 medals. Australians have the second-highest total, at fewer than half that number (212). A few ...

Living on the Eastern Shore for most of my life I have long appreciated the long cold winters and the scorching hot summers that watermen tolerate to bring fresh seafood to our tables. These watermen ...

Tangier Island is located in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay, just south of the Maryland line. Ken Castelli Tangier Island is an isolated patch of Virginia marshland in the middle of the Chesapeake ...