Legendary swimmer Mark Spitz, born in 1950, etched his name in history at the 1972 Munich Olympics, clinching an astonishing ...

Olympic gold medalist Barbara Ann Cochran, cross-country skiing pioneer Trina Hosmer, snowboarding trailblazer Betsy Shaw and freestyle skiing legend Donna Weinbrecht recently participated in a Virtua ...

The Oscar-nominated documentary September 5 follows an American sports broadcasting team’s experience during the horrifying events of the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics. It revisits the real-life tragedy ...

Before the opening of the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, I began to realize that this idealistically conceived gathering of the world’s athletes might not offer me an escape from the world’s problems ...

Tragedy strikes the 1972 Olympics when terrorists attack the Israeli team live on TV. September 5, 1972: During the 1972 Munich Olympics—the first Olympic Games to be broadcast live on television—the ...

It’s been 50 years since America lost one of its greatest distance running legends, but Michael Marckx can still feel the ache of losing his boyhood idol. Steve Prefontaine was only 24 when he died in ...

Tom Jordan remembers the first time he attended a meet at Hayward Field featuring University of Oregon distance runner Steve Prefontaine. Jordan had just settled into his seat in the old east ...

Jan Johnson, the bronze medalist in the men's pole vault at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich and gold medalist at the 1971 Pan American Games, died Feb. 23 in Atascadero, California. He was 74. Born ...

Former Alabama pole vaulter and 1972 Olympic bronze medalist Jan Johnson has passed away according to an announcement on social media. Johnson held the school record in the men's pole vault at 18 feet ...

Al Michaels is probably best known to current sports fans as the voice of ABC's "Monday Night Football," NBC's "Sunday Night Football" and Prime Video's "Thursday Night Football." Yet during a ...

The International Cricket Council Champions Tournament, beginning this week, highlights how national rivalries and geopolitical tensions can meet on playing fields Courses in the Critical Sports ...