The US figure skating team of 1961 contained the golden girls and boys of their generation. That year’s National Championships…
Doping in sport wasn’t new when the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome came around, and cycling had led the way…
Every so often in sport there arrives on the scene a team of such prodigious talent that future glory is…
First held in 1923, the 24 Hours of Le Mans is a true test of speed, skill and, above all,…
They were sporting legends in their own lifetimes - which would be tragically cut short in 1949. Italy’s Torino football…
The years immediately following World War II saw vast crowds flocking to football games in Britain, as entertainment-starved working men…
In Queen Victoria’s time, wherever Britons went a-colonizing they took with them the sporting institutions they were used to. In…
Any time a seismograph gives a Richter scale reading of 8.3, lots of people somewhere suffer a terrible ordeal that…
Those who know no better might reasonably assume the Long Island Express speeds commuters into Manhattan from fashionable Nassau and…