In July 1961, Mr. Bennett was performing in Hot Springs, Ark., and about to head to the West Coast when...
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Six-time World Champion Mark Foster previews the World Aquatics Championships Forty-seven gold medals, and possibly two of the world's longest-standing...
As the Cold War was waning, the physicist Lewis Branscomb feared that America’s economic and scientific superiority was in jeopardy....
During the eight months Caeleb Dressel spent not swimming, he was surprised by the things he came to miss. Some...
Perhaps it was Scooter’s resemblance to a glossy black jelly bean that earned him the title on Friday night as...
After 14 rounds of words like “probouleutic” and “zwitterion” and “schistorrhachis,” Dev Shah, an eighth grader from Florida, had to...
Crew members assemble the main stage ahead of the 2023 Scripps Nations Spelling Bee on Sunday, May 28, 2023, at...
Buddy Melges, a Wisconsin native who became the first sailor to win both an Olympic gold medal and the sport’s...
Jim Brown, the Cleveland Browns fullback who was acclaimed as one of the greatest players in pro football history, and...
Doyle Brunson, a champion poker player who, in a long, lucrative and colorful career with a deck of cards, won...