Jackie Robinson was an exceptional athlete and a ... City College — and was a four-sport star in baseball, football, basketball and track and field. According to the California Community ...

Before Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Jackie Robinson became ... where he competed in baseball, basketball, football and track and field. Robinson arrived at UCLA after graduating from Pasadena ...

A former NBA player repeatedly promised to build a resort-arena on the Las Vegas Strip. Investors and Nevada officials ...

Tuesday was the 50th anniversary of Jackie Robinson’s debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers. By now, most — if not all — of you are surrounded by homage to the break-down of the color barrier in baseball.

Baseball player and civil rights icon Jackie Robinson has been immortalized in many ways — movies, with a larger than life statue in Jersey City, and baseball players all wear his number 42 on ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Jim Becker, a world-traveling journalist who covered Jackie Robinson’s big-league baseball debut and the U.S. Army’s retaking of Seoul during the Korean War, died Friday.

Welcome to the Amsterdam News Family! I’m honored to be Amsterdam News‘ Publisher and my father, Wilbert “Bill” Tatum, before me. We’ve been reporting the news of the day from a Black ...

1960 — Paul Pender beats Sugar Ray Robinson in a 15-round split decision to capture the world middleweight boxing title. 1962 — Bob Feller and Jackie Robinson are elected into baseball’s Hall of Fame.

Becker chronicled many watershed events, such as Jackie Robinson’s first major league game in 1947, the hostage-takeover and killings of Israeli athletes during the 1972 Munich Olympics ...

Kareem should be in that conversation… Him and Bill Russell, they’re our Jackie Robinson in Basketball,” Barkley said. Maybe it’s time for us—and the “lightweight reporters” pointed ...