The S.D. Sportswriters Association has been honoring the state's top athletes, teams and coaches since 1954 with an annual ...

It may surprise some given Team GB's relative lack of success until this century, but athletics leads the way with 19 winners. Among those are athletes who delivered more recent golden moments, such ...

A host of figures from the world of sport died in 2025. Here, we remember some of those sporting names. Tiger Bech: The ...

Jack Johnson becomes the first black man to win the world heavyweight boxing title, with a 14th-round knockout of Tommy Burns in Sydney, Australia. 1917 — Toronto’s Harry ...

The death of Pope Francis brought change to the Catholic Church, which counts 1.4 billion adherents and is now led — for the ...

Arts, entertainment, film, festivals and more events happening this week in the greater Capital Region from Thursday, Dec. 25 ...

1981 — Former world heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali’s 61st and last fight; loses to Trevor Berbick by unanimous decision in 10 rounds at Queen Elizabeth Sports Centre, Nassau, Bahamas.

A no-brainer. This was the year of the Dodgers. Everything else in the Los Angeles sports world fades into the ...

Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, died in February, their passing initially shrouded in mystery. Authorities later determined Hackman, in advanced stages of Alzheimer’s, ...

Put down the turkey sandwich and forget the washing up, it’s time to get those little grey cells working again, with The Scotsman’s big quiz of the year. Ten categories, 100 questions. As ever some ...

Today in History for Dec. 26: In 1776, the British suffered a major defeat in the "Battle of Trenton" during the Revolutionary War.

Dec. 9 1934 — The New York Giants wins the NFL championship by beating the Chicago Bears 30-13 in the famous “Sneakers Game.” With the temperature at 9 degrees and the Polo Grounds field a sheet of ...