athletes

A leftist response to the 1936 Games being held in Nazi Germany, the proposed competition was canceled by the Spanish Civil War.

As technologies of quantification and video capture grow more sophisticated, is baseball changing? Do those changes have moral implications?

Greek statues, the Napoleonic wars, and the advent of photography all played a role.

While we're missing three weeks of sporting endeavors due to the Tokyo Olympics, we can revisit one of the most bizarre races in modern Olympic history.

Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth transformed America’s pastime by becoming a new kind of star.

Although largely forgotten today, exercise by club swinging was all the rage in the 19th century.

Reflections on the centennial of America’s greatest sports scandal.

'It’s about time,' said former doubles partner Angela Buxton.

Meet the team that transformed baseball from a pastime to an industry.

How the Toledo Troopers, the most dominant female football team of all time, met their match.

Migrant futboleros in greater Mexico.

Cyclist Tillie Anderson shattered records, dominated her competition, and earned the world champion title.

Invented for athletics, sneakers eventually became status symbols and an integral part of street style.

Brad Ricca dives into the history of the Cleveland Indians' name and the creation of "Chief Wahoo."

Athletes who helped shape our times and the economic freedom that enabled them.

In the 1890s, boxing went from lower class brawling to upper class show of masculinity.

An Olympic runner reflects on segregation and her first experiences with integrated sports events.

The rise of the sport as we know it was centered in Gotham, where big stadiums, heroic characters, and epic sportswriting produced a pastime that bound a city together.

During World War II, the OSS sent Moe Berg to Europe, where he gathered intel on Germany's efforts to build an atomic bomb.

The actor and martial arts star also wanted to be regarded as a poet-philosopher.