Adolf Hitler arrived too late to see Jesse Owens blazing down the track in Berlin’s Olympic Stadium on Aug. 3, 1936, winning the 100-meter race in a record-tying 10.3 seconds and edging out ...

In this Olympic Games year, there is always a look back with a nod of respect, of admiration, for not only what Jesse Owens did, but also when and how he did it. His was a golden story of the 1936 ...

For most athletes, Jesse Owens' performance one spring ... This was the background for the 1936 Olympics. When Owens finished competing, the African-American son of a sharecropper and the grandson ...

It was 1962 when Casey Stengel predicted man would touch the moon before the Mets won the World Series. By February 1965, Mars looked like a lock, too. Each of the Mets’ first three seasons of ...

Later, a second Olympic controversy arose when Jewish American athletes Marty Glickman and Sam Stoller were benched and replaced by African American athletes Jesse Owens and Ralph Metcalfe in the ...

The most famous athlete of his time, his stunning triumph at the 1936 Olympic Games captivated the world even as it infuriated the Nazis. Despite the racial slurs he endured, Jesse Owens' grace ...

Here's every individual event champion from indoor track and field and outdoor track and field in NCAA history.

PHOENIX — Jesse Owens was a record-breaking athlete who gained international fame, breaking barriers in the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany. But for Gina Hemphill-Strachan, the Medal of Freedom ...

Bolt had to forfeit a gold medal he won as part of a relay in the 2008 Olympics after a teammate tested positive. Jesse Owens won the 100-meter race at the 1936 Olympics in 10.3 seconds.

Jesse Owens won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Munich. Owens' story is one of a high-profile sports star making a statement that transcended athletics, spilling over into the world of ...