Born: Oct. 12, 1975Track & Field American sprinter and former college basketball star at North Carolina; voted Women's Athlete of the Year by Track & Field News in 1997,98 and 2000; 1999…
Born: 1915 Electric Guitar, Multi-Track Recording. Paul's innovations led to his first solid-body electric guitar in 1946. He produced a series of extremely popular recordings—using advanced multi-…
Entrepreneur, developer of racetracks, roadways, and resortsBorn: Jan. 12, 1874Birthplace: Greensburg, Indiana Carl Fisher grew up in Indianapolis. He quit school at age 12 to work in a grocery…
Round Three: Monarchos vs. Point GivenPreview of the 2001 Belmont Stakes and the Triple Crown by John Gettings Kentucky Derby winner Monarchos (left) is sure to face stiff competition from…
Name at birth: Mildred Ella DidriksenMildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias was voted the outstanding woman athlete of the century in a 1950 Associated Press poll. Though she gained her greatest…
Black athletes raise fists for Civil Rights Movement
by John Gettings Tommie Smith (center) and John Carlos raise fists for Black Power in 1968. (Source: AP) Related Links…
(Encyclopedia) discus throwing, gymnastic exercise of the ancient Greeks, revived in modern times, especially as part of the Olympic games (in which it is an event of the decathlon) and as an event…
