Fun to watch and fun to play, sporting activities have always had a key role in public life. These sports-related stories take us back to the ancient Olympics and forward to the days of a "Moneyball" approach to baseball.
During 1995, South Africa's senior rugby officials devised a strategy to rally all the people behind the Springboks.
In this clip of historic footage, compiled by Argenta Images, we see Jackie and Rachel Robinson, Pee Wee Reese and Eddie Stankey.
Cat Can Do - during a highspeed power boat race - flips.
Turning a racing powerboat can become a dangerous proposition, even when an offshore racing team is going more slowly during the turn than when drivin...
Folklore has it that William Webb Ellis invented rugby around 1823 while he was a student at the Rugby School in England.
This clip explains the sport of rugby in a way that people (especially those who watch American-style football) can understand.
The Preakness is coming up on May 19. In one of the greatest horse races of all time, Seabiscuit and War Admiral (the then-reigning Triple-Crown winne...
After his Triple-Crown victories, Secretariat raced one more time - on October 28, 1973.
Bill Nack, a sport's writer who watched Secretariat's triple-crown races, wrote a definitive biography about the great champion.
It was a very cold October day, in 1973, when Secretariat took the track at Woodbine.
After winning the Derby and the Preakness, could Secretariat become the first racehorse in twenty-five years to win the Triple Crown at Belmont?
Shergar, the champion thoroughbred, won the Epsom Derby (in England) by ten lengths on June 3, 1981 - the same year he was named "European Horse of th...
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