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America has a lot of great sports memories in the history of the country. Here are the greatest moments in American sports ...
When it comes to sports, some victories aren’t just determined by the scoreboard. They’re about grit, heart, and refusing to ...
2013 — LeBron James has 37 points and 12 rebounds, and the Miami Heat repeat as champions with a 95-88 victory over the San Antonio Spurs in Game 7 of the NBA Finals. 2017 — Tiger Woods checks into a ...
Colin wins the Tidal Stakes at Sheepshead Bay and retires undefeated after 15 starts. No major American racehorse approaches this record until 1988, when Personal Ensign retires with ...
Anna Wile helped the Hilliard Davidson girls track and field team win its first OHSAA state championship June 7 at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium.
Jesse Owens, Ohio State track marvel, shown as he won the 220-yard dash, beating the world's record by 3/10 of a second, and his nearest competitor, Andy Dooley of Iowa, by ten yards, at the 1935 ...
OWENS, JESSE (12 September 1913-31 March 1980), was a world record setting track-and-field athlete during the 1930s.In 1950 sportswriters voted him as the world's top track star of the century. Born ...
It was 1936 Berlin and 21-year-old Jesse Owens had beaten his new pal Luz Long, 23, to the gold medal in the long jump - breaking the world record with a jump of 8.06 metres.
Jesse Owens' four-gold-medal performance in 1936 in Berlin was iconic. For him to do what he did at that time, ... That 400 relay team won with a world-record time of 39.8 seconds. ...
Adolf Hitler arrived too late to see Jesse Owens blazing down the track in Berlin’s Olympic Stadium on Aug. 3, 1936, winning the 100-meter race in a record-tying 10.3 seconds and edging out ...
Jesse Owens became the first African American athlete to win the 'big four', i.e., gold medals in the 100m, 200m, long jump and 4x100m relay, apart from setting new records in several of them. × ...
The world record-breaking track athlete, who famously went up against Hitler’s ideologies and the dictator himself at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, kept his family life separate from his sports career.