The Question: Who are the highest paid players in professional basketball? What about baseball? The Answer: USA Today carries comprehensive information…
Joe Montana is the most famous quarterback in the history of the San Francisco 49ers, having led the team to four Super Bowl victories in the 1980s. Joe Montana joined the San Francisco 49ers in 1979…
Professional football player Thomas Herrion was an offensive lineman for the San Francisco 49ers who collapsed and died following an exhibition game in August of 2005. Herrion grew up in Fort Worth…
(Encyclopedia) Cruyff, Johan, 1947–2016, Dutch soccer player. He played forward (1964–73) for the Dutch League's Amsterdam Ajax team, assuming a key role in their six league championships, four Dutch…
(Encyclopedia) Charlton, Bobby (Sir Robert Charlton), 1937–, one of the most celebrated of all English soccer players. Famous for his graceful athleticism, powerfully accurate kick, and sportsmanlike…
(Encyclopedia) Beckenbauer, Franz Anton, 1945–, German soccer player nicknamed der Kaiser. The only person to win the World Cup as both player-captain (1974) and coach (1990), he began his career at…
(Encyclopedia) ReginaReginarĭjīˈnə [key], city (1991 pop. 179,178), provincial capital, S Sask., Canada, on Wascana Creek. The city is the distribution and service center for one of the world's…
(Encyclopedia) Noll, Chuck (Charles Henry Noll), 1932–2014, American professional football coach, b. Cleveland, B.S. Univ. of Dayton, 1953. A guard and linebacker in college and with the Cleveland…
The Marshall TragedyThe worst plane crash ever of an American sports team by Michael Morrison The fountain on the Marshall University campus commemorating the plane crash of 75 athletes and…
Actor John David Washington broke out in 2018 as the star of Spike Lee's movie, BlacKkKlansman, playing an African-American policeman who infiltrates the KKK, a white supremacist group. Washington's…
