Danny Mack Gable is the greatest and most important figure in the history of freestyle wrestling. Born on October 25, 1948 in the small industrial…
Kevin Wayne Durant is the first freshman in college basketball history to be named Naismith College Player of the Year. Born in Washington, D.C. on…
The contemporary sport of ice hockey was developed in Canada and it is that country’s official winter sport. The Soviet national team was the best…
The Powell brothers are the First Family of lacrosse. The three brothers were born in West Carthage, New York and attended Carthage Senior High School–in…
Nancy Marie Lopez played one of the greatest stretches of golf in the history of the LPGA Tour between 1978 and 1979. Born in Torrance,…
The 1992 men’s U.S. Olympic team featured the greatest collection of basketball talent ever assembled. Basketball was first introduced as an Olympic competition at the…
Severiano Ballesteros Sota is the greatest European golfer of all time. Born in Pedrena, Cantabria–a fishing village on the Bay of Biscay in northern Spain–on…
The University of Pittsburgh has produced many great football players over the years. None combine more talent, grace and class than Larry Darnell Fitzgerald, Jr.…