Silvano Alves, from Brazil, aboard Showoff, competes at a Professional Bull Riders event in 2013. Bull riding is a brutal and unforgiving sport. Professional bull riders lead a nomadic existence, ...

Have you ever watched an NBA game and wondered where a player came from? Not in the sense of what college or high school he went to, but going back to the very beginning to where he was born? Well, we ...

Construction for Mount Rushmore started in 1927 and completed in 1941. For decades, Mount Rushmore was a large hill and tourist attraction in South Dakota. Then, fans and media turned it into the ...

Baseball heroes make the impossible happen. Baseball heroes are born in pressure situations. Although it’s a team sport, at-bats are so a one-man show in the batter's box. It’s the hitter’s time to ...

The 1990s were a pretty awesome time to be an NBA fan — not only was the sport exploding in popularity, but the chances were, if you had an NBA team in your town, you were getting a new arena. Of the ...

Tom Hanks, center, shares some laughs with Dennis Miller, left, and Ron Howard at the old ballgame. Celebrities are just like us. They are human after all. Although they’re a little higher profile, ...

Winning football games is a tradition at Long Beach Poly in Southern California. High school football has become more than local news. Networks like ESPN and Fox Sports devote time and money to ...

Where have all the hypercompetitive, in-it-to-win-it Major League Baseball team owners gone? Straight to the bank. The baseball gravy train is on a roll. In 2022, the average MLB franchise was worth ...

Here's how all 68 college football teams from Power Five Conferences and Notre Dame rank headed into the 2023 football season. When it comes to where the power resides in college sports, college ...

In some parts of the country, high school football teams have traditions and legacies that stretch back to the beginnings of the sport. In other parts, high school football dynasties have just sprung ...

The value of NFL teams and the wealth of their owners has shot through the stratosphere in the last two decades. It was just 20 years ago that you could still get an NFL team for a bargain basement ...

There is something breathtaking about watching a truly great sprinter. It's the reason that track and field events at the Summer Olympics are among the most watched in the world. And those truly great ...