Babe Ruth was sport's highest-salaried star early in the decade, earning $80,000 per season, around $1.5 million (£1.13m) in today's money. But as the Great Depression deepened, pay fell. Across the ...

Albuquerque honors Johnny Tapia. Terence Crawford's Omaha gym holds its ground. Mike Tyson's glitzy Atlantic City turf has ...

John Wayne is synonymous with the legends of the Western, but that's not the entirety of his career. These are his five best ...

Houston boasts a proud heritage of Olympic gold medalists that includes shotgunner Forest McNeir, Texas’ first Olympic champion in 1920, boxer George Foreman, figure skater Tara Lipinski, basketball ...

A 19-day push to build a UFC arena at the White House mirrors a frantic 1921 construction in Jersey City for a historic ...

Using information collected from the Social Security Administration's historical baby names database, Stacker compiled a list of the top five baby names for both girls and boys in every decade ...

It’s 10 years to the month since Muhammad Ali died. As a boxer, athlete-activist, and self-marketeer, he was ahead of his time. He also died ahead of his time. In boxing we know that repetitive blows ...

She was just 17 when she played Joan Crawford’s ungrateful daughter in the classic 1945 melodrama. It was the high point of a ...

A glance at what the U.S. could have looked like in an alternate universe where Britain won and put American independence on ...

The town of Westville has been celebrating July 1 since 1907 and is expecting around 12,000 people to take in the festivities ...

The United States reached the 1930 World Cup semi-finals without Stark. Imagine if the country's greatest goalscorer had gone ...