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Julius Menendez, who coached Muhammad Ali to the gold medal at the 1960 Olympics, has died. He was 90.

My first visit to a professional football ground was in 1960, when my father took me to Springfield Park to watch a schoolboy game. My mother never really understood my dad's obsession with football and why he would want to walk 40 minutes across tow...

In one moment, Sir Alex Ferguson had seen an opportunity to make history again arise. Although the great Real Madrid side of 1960 might have fired his fascination with the European Cup, their modern successors at bitter rivals Barcelona seemed lik...

A look at the bombastic and abbreviated life of Stanley Ketchel, from one of America's greatest sportswriters.

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- Former Patriots offensive guard Jack Davis has died at the age of 80. Davis, an original member of the team when it was formed in 1960 as the Boston Patriots of the American Football League, died on Jan. 1 in Palm Harbor, Fla...

Nov. 27, 1960 and 1965: Gordie Howe must have had a thing for late November. On Nov. 26, 1961, he played in his 1,000th game -- a nice enough milestone, but hardly a significant as the two that happened one day later, date-wise. On this day 52 yea...

The Rams dominated the second half to hand the Cardinals their seventh loss in a row, 31-17 on Sunday.

Nov. 15, 1960: Before there was Wilt Chamberlain's 100, there was Elgin Baylor's 71. That's what took place on this day 52 years ago, when the third-year Los Angeles Lakers forward torched the New York Knicks in Madison Square Garden, making 28 f...

Oct. 29, 1960: Fifty-two summers ago, a young boxer named Cassius Clay claimed the light heavyweight Olympic gold medal in Rome. Not long after, Ali turned pro -- and on this day that same year, the man who would be Muhammad Ali fought for the fir...

Oct. 13, 1960: Some called him "The Glove," but Bill Mazeroski did more than field the ball. You might have heard of one such occurrence: on this day 52 years ago, when the Pittsburgh Pirates second baseman took a 1-0 pitch from Ralph Terry, with the...

England's Football Association says Britain is unlikely to enter a men's team for the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics.

Sept. 9, 1960: On this first football Sunday of the 2012 NFL season, we look back to the first football Friday (or any day) in American Football League history. That's when two of the league's eight teams squared off, with coach Frank Filchock and hi...

Philip E. Moriarty, who coached U.S. divers at the 1960 Olympics and was Yale's swimming and diving coach for 17 years, has died. He was 98.

Jimmy Carr, who won an NFL championship in 1960 with the Philadelphia Eagles, has died in Indiana. He was 79.

The IAAF says three-time Olympic champion Peter Snell of New Zealand will be among the 24 inaugural members of the international athletics federation's Hall of Fame.

Led by a trio of Welshmen and a goal by an Englishman, Britain's first Olympic soccer team since 1960 advanced to the quarterfinals of the London Games with a 1-0 victory against Uruguay on Wednesday.