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.
Mountain sickness, with its common symptoms of dry cough and shortness of breath, can strike above 8,000 feet.
Brownwood High School in Texas does not have a baseball program, so Jim Morris plays football.
Despite advice of scouts, Bean and DePodesta use James's system to pick the 2002 Oakland A's team members.
Beginning in 776 BC and lasting 1,000 years, Greeks gather in Olympia, sacred home of Zeus, to compete in athletics.
Read and listen to Dr. Armnad D'Angour's Olympic poem for the London 2012 games.
In 1995, Mandela and South Africa create a slogan to unite the whole country behind their rugby team: "One Team, One Country."
After a scout for the Milwaukee Brewers sees him pitch, Morris is the team's fourth pick in the supplemental draft.
Mandela wants all people of South Africa to unite and believes support for the rugby team will bring the country together.
In 1971, the U.S. is fighting a war in Vietnam that many Americansdo not support.
Blind in one eye, Red Pollard is a horse-racing jockey who is best-known for riding Seabiscuit to victories.
Before 1995, no black players are members of the Springboks, South Africa's rugby team.
In 1940, Seabiscuit wins his last race, the Santa Anita Handicap, which makes him the biggest money-winning horse of his day.
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