Alabama lost in the Orange Bowl to the Texas Longhorns, a team Arkansas beat. Caveness also spent the 1973 season as a linebacker coach for the Houston Oilers. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2010. He died of melanoma at the age of 71 on 10 May 2014. After...
Why She Lost Them: Former world champion track and field star Marion Jones won three gold medals and two bronze at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Rumors started to circulate that Jones used steroids following an interview with one of her trainers, Victor Conte, who told ABC'...
Originally trained in judo, after becoming the first American woman to earn an Olympic medal in the sport at the 2008 Summer Olympics, Rousey began to pursue a career in mixed martial arts. She then went on to set the record for the most UFC title defences by a woman, losing only twice...
During the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Adolf Hitler attempted to use the Games as a showcase for his Third Reich and the supposed superiority of the Aryan race. Jesse Owens turned that theory on its head right quick by winning four gold medals in the 100m sprint, the long jump, 200m sprint, ...
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I can be that mom — that cool mom," she said. "Just to be able to compete at the Olympic Games and to hit four events, do the best that I did was something that will last for me forever. It'll just be cool to be able to tell my kids one day that I went to the Olympics...