CHARLESTON — Everyone likes a true underdog story. Mullens native Christy Martin overcame many odds to embark upon a historic ...

Wingspan and arm length are Rueben Bain Jr.’s two worst enemies as concepts this week. While NFL evaluators will have no ...

Mianne Bagger makes sports history at the Women’s Australian Open as the first transsexual to play in a pro golf tournament. 2006 — Rafael Nadal ends top-ranked Roger Federer’s 56-match hardcourt ...

Philadelphia’s most famous set of steps is getting a real-world heavyweight. The bronze statue of boxing legend Joe “Smokin’ Joe” Frazier is set to move this spring to the base of the Philadelphia ...

Securing this rematch more than a decade after their first meeting feels like a sequel to a poorly received movie.

When was the last time a boxing match between two men sat on the wrong side of middle age stopped the world in its tracks, for good or ill?

Stories of professional athletes, pioneering broadcasters, family heritage and overlooked community figures filled the ...

The rematch between Mayweather & Pacquiao is finally happening on Netflix, but boxing fans wonder if the match comes too late ...

Judo was the answer. In 1950, LeMay ordered Lt. Gen. Thomas Power to stand up an experimental physical conditioning unit at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska. The program combined preflight ...

Penn Center recalls Lowcountry visits of Rev. Jesse Jackson, Civil Rights Movement leader and presidential candidate who died ...

February 16, 1970, Joe Frazier won the World Heavyweight Boxing Championship. Thirty-six years later, he brought that legacy to Memphis.

Clay won the 1960 Olympic gold medal in Rome as a light heavyweight, turned professional immediately, and tore through the heavyweight division. By February 1964, he had a 19-0 record and a title shot ...