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.
Meet Branch Rickey, the former president and general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers who believed that Major League baseball had to include non-white ...
Citation - the first race horse to win $1 million - won the Triple Crown in 1948.
Cricket is the national sport of India.
Deep-sea diving, in modern times, includes diving by means of remote submersibles like Alvin.
Dickie Eklund fought Sugar Ray Leonard on the 18th of July, 1978.
In 1953, Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first two people known to scale the summit of Mt.
This historical footage - during which Francois Pienaar discusses Nelson Mandela - sheds light on how the Springboks' captain viewed South Africa's Pr...
On the 8th of June, 1924, George Mallory and Andrew (Sandy) Irvine were attempting to reach the summit of Mt.
Did George Mallory and Sandy Irvine reach the top of Mt. Everest before they disappeared? Seven decades after their attempt, Conrad Anker finds Mallor...
Before each rugby match, the All Blacks of New Zealand perform the "Haka" - a traditional war dance of the country's Maori people.
This clip, from Jackie Robinson: A Life Story, includes interviews with Jackie Robinson and features segments from his baseball-playing days.
The Biography Channel has produced a "mini-bio" of Jackie Robinson and has made it available at their YouTube Channel.
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