Twenty-three years removed from her days as a gold medal-winning gymnast with the U.S. Olympic team in the 1996 Atlanta Games, Dominique Dawes still can’t stop moving. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] As a mother of four small children, there is little time to reminisce about the old days. But Dawes is still making a positive impact in […]
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Herman Boone, high school football coach who inspired ‘Remember the Titans,’ dies at 84 | The Washington Post
Herman Boone, a trailblazing football coach who led Alexandria’s T.C. Williams High School to a Virginia state championship in 1971 and was later portrayed by Denzel Washington in the Hollywood film “Remember the Titans,” died Dec. 18 at his home in Alexandria. He was 84. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The cause was lung cancer, said his daughters, […]
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The Cleveland Summit and Muhammad Ali: The true story | The Undefeated
Historic meeting organized by Jim Brown had an economic incentive
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Track legend Harrison Dillard, four-time Olympic champion, dies at 96 | Cleveland.Com
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Harrison Dillard was a huge underdog when he lined up for the 100-meter dash at the Olympic Games of 1948 in London’s Wembley Stadium. A capacity crowd of 83,000, including the king and queen of England, assumed he had little chance to win against an unequalled array of speedsters. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Fans […]
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Fast track to stardom | The Washington Post
Fueled by joy, 17-year-old speedskater Maame Biney races from Ghana to Virginia to Utah and soon to PyeongChang.
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