Auction Block: Famed Charity

...he was one of the earliest visitors. He noticed nice displays of memorabilia from local favorites like Jim Gentile and Billy Hunter, but he noticed that neither Plexiglas case contained a contemporary bubble-gum card...

Fun Facts: Thanksgiving and the NFL

Thanksgiving Day means football, even if that routinely requires a healthy serving of the woeful Lions (they've played on Thanksgiving Day since 1934)...

You Want Someone Who Can Change A Sport?

Michelle Wie Can Change The World

Sports and Politics: Who's Got Presidential Game?

With Nov. 4 in the offing, each candidate is doing every last-minute pitch he can to persuade you that he's the one who should be given the keys to th...

NEXT ATHLETE: MICHELLE WIE

You want someone who can change a sport? Michelle Wie can change the world.

REVIVING THE WILDCAT

...played. It was born from Warner's desire to utilize the talents of his star player, Jim Thorpe. Turns out the guy was a decent athlete. While coaching the Carlisle Indian Institute's football...

The original "Wildcat" was Jim Thorpe

NEXT ATHLETE: MICHELLE WIE

...but did any of them shake their sport or sports itself the way Jackie Robinson or Jim Thorpe or Babe Didrikson did? NEXT should be someone who makes us uncomfortable (see Ali, Muhammad) because...

SHEILA, GET YOUR ... GUN? BLADE? GOGGLES? HORSE? SPIKES?

In our last issue, we asked hundreds of jocks to name the best athlete in the world. Not one mentioned Olympic pentathlete Sheila Taormina. Big mistake.

COMMENT MINING: GREATEST ATHLETE

...and he does but that ain't great. lancethecoug oh, Bo was deservedly mentioned, but not jim thorpe. fsmithk Retired athletes? How about a shout out for Alberto Tomba, the Italian skier? Dude won...

...skills to pick off five passes and deflect 14 last season, which earned him the 2007 Jim Thorpe Award. Says Cason: "I did the things I could do to control my fate in this...

Is This Seat Taken?

Awed by Miami's domination of Florida, BMOC wonders if there's room left on the 'Canes' bandwagon.

THE BIG 10

Will it be OSU for a third straight year?

THIS JUST IN

Track isn't a very big draw in our country. And that's just nuts.

MY BROTHERS' KEEPER

Gang members. Thugs. Murderers. The Bra boys have heard all the labels. But in a powerful new documentary, Koby and Sunny Abberton show why the labels "surfer" and "brother" are the ones that really matter.