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Despite his accomplishments on the field, he was remembered mostly for the many beatings his body absorbed, which left him in constant pain. Jim Otto, who played center for 15 [...]

Byline: Frank Litsky She was from Czechoslovakia. He was from the U.S. And after meeting at the 1956 Games and winning gold medals, they married. Love had breached the iron [...]

She was from Czechoslovakia. He was from the U.S. And after meeting at the 1956 Games and winning gold medals, they married. Love had breached the iron curtain. Olga Fikotova [...]

A top professional in the postwar years, he won the Masters and the P.G.A. championships in 1956. At his death he was the oldest living champion of both. Jack Burke [...]

Twice Soviet champions at the Games, he and Ludmila Belousova revolutionized pairs figure skating in the 1960s with a balletic style before defecting to the West. Oleg Protopopov, who, with [...]

In 1956 in Melbourne, he was dueling with another American when an English runner burst toward the finish line. But Courtney had one last surge in him. Tom Courtney, a [...]

Byline: Frank Litsky He won two Olympic gold medals for Australia, but the second was awarded after a disputed finish - one of the more freakish moments in sports history. [...]

In an era when track and field athletes could rise to national celebrity, Uelses became a newsreel idol and made the cover of Sports Illustrated. In the 1950s and '60s, [...]

The oldest living U.S. Olympic medalist, he met Owens as a teenager, won bronze in the broad jump in 1948 and later created an award in his idol's honor. Herb [...]

The first diver to sweep the gold medals in two Olympics, she won numerous national championships in a career that ended when she was still in her 20s. Pat McCormick, [...]

In a 25-year coaching career, he appeared in 20 bowl games and won 201 games, the fourth-highest total in Southeastern Conference history. Vince Dooley, a Hall of Fame football coach [...]

Though he helped lead Army to three national titles, he was eclipsed by two storied running backs, and his death in 2019 was largely overlooked. Arnold Tucker was an All-America [...]

After a dead-heat finish in the 1950 Wanamaker Mile in New York and a series of yes-no-yes rulings, he was finally declared the winner almost a year later. Don Gehrmann, [...]

Without athletic scholarships, he made outgunned teams winners by keeping them moving and unnerving opponents, leading to one of the biggest upsets in college basketball. Pete Carril, who coached basketball [...]

A national champion diver himself, he led Indiana University to glory over 31 years and guided gold medal winners in the Olympics. Hobie Billingsley, who taught himself to dive from [...]

The second man to run the mile in less than four minutes, he believed that he and his longtime rival, who was the first, had simply done the inevitable. John [...]

The second man to run the mile in less than four minutes, he believed that he and his longtime rival, who was the first, had simply done the inevitable. John [...]

Hard, who was outspoken and independent minded, was the top-ranked American woman from 1960 to 1963. Darlene Hard, a sturdy and strong-willed Californian with a power game who won 21 [...]

The fastest player of her day, she played down her own ability but admitted, ''Billie Jean King said I was her idol.'' Shirley Fry Irvin, a tennis player who in [...]

A genial ''old school'' leader, he took New Mexico State and then Illinois deep into the N.C.A.A. tournament. In a 42-year career, he won close to 800 games. Lou Henson, [...]

A former star for Tennessee, he led Pitt to a national championship and coached the Volunteers for 16 seasons, only to be ousted after heart surgery. Johnny Majors, a homegrown [...]

She is best remembered for winning the gold medal at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, just an hour after her husband, Emil Zatopek, won the men's 5,000-meter run. Dana Zatopkova, who [...]

A four-time Olympic gold medal winner, he failed to qualify in the hurdles at the 1948 Olympic trials, but won gold in the 100-meter dash. Harrison Dillard, a four-time Olympic [...]

Walt Michaels, a strong-willed and occasionally undiplomatic coach who led the Jets to the 1982 American Football Conference championship game but was ousted after they lost, died on Wednesday at [...]

Johnny (Lam) Jones, a former Olympic gold medal sprinter and swift-footed football star at the University of Texas but a noted bust as a football professional with the Jets, died [...]

Ted Lindsay, a Hall of Fame player who packed a fierce combativeness in a slight frame as he helped the Detroit Red Wings win four Stanley Cup championship titles, died [...]

Lindy Remigino, who had never won a major championship and was not even the best sprinter on his Manhattan College track team, but who nonetheless won the 1952 Olympic gold [...]

Laszlo Tabori, who in 1955 became the third man to run a mile in under four minutes, defected to the United States a year later from a Hungary in turmoil [...]

Billy Cannon, a charismatic college and pro football hero whose world came crashing down when he went to prison for counterfeiting, died on Friday at his home in St. Francisville, [...]

Mel Rosen, who retired after 28 years as a renowned track and field coach at Auburn University to lead one of the most decorated American track teams in the history [...]

On the morning of May 6, 1954, a Thursday, Roger Bannister, 25, a medical student in London, worked his usual shift at St. Mary's Hospital and took an early afternoon [...]

Dan Gurney, whose storied career as a racecar driver included numerous firsts, and who went on to become equally successful as a team owner and car builder, died on Sunday [...]

Carmen Cozza, who won 10 Ivy League championships in his 32 years as Yale's head football coach, died on Thursday in New Haven. He was 87. His daughter Karen Pollard [...]

Lones Wigger Jr., a career Army officer and two-time Olympic champion who was hailed as the most decorated rifle shooter in the world, died on Thursday at his home in [...]

Byline: FRANK LITSKY Lones Wigger Jr., a career Army officer and two-time Olympic champion who was hailed as the most decorated rifle shooter in the world, died on Thursday at [...]

Bill Steinkraus, one of America's most celebrated horse-show riders and the country's first to win an Olympic individual gold medal in any equestrian discipline, died on Nov. 29 at his [...]

Byline: FRANK LITSKY Ludmila Belousova, a petite Russian figure skater who, with her husband, Oleg Protopopov, dominated pairs competition in the 1960s, winning two Olympic gold medals for the Soviet [...]

Frank Broyles, a revered football coach and athletic director who helped lift the University of Arkansas into the top ranks of college sports, most memorably by leading the Razorbacks to [...]

Babe Parilli, a two-time all-American under Coach Bear Bryant at the University of Kentucky and then a quarterback for 15 seasons for five National Football League and American Football League [...]

Jim Bush, who coached some of track and field's most successful athletes, more than 20 of whom competed in the Olympic Games, and led the University of California, Los Angeles, [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDLarry Grantham, an undersize linebacker who as the defensive captain of the Jets helped the team upset the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III, a watershed game in the [...]

Adolph Kiefer, a celebrated swimming champion who won gold as a teenager at the 1936 Berlin Olympics and might well have become one of America's greatest Olympic champions if World [...]