Elite athletes are often mythologized in tales that transform them into superhuman figures closer to Paul Bunyan than someone who puts a ball through a hoop or cradles a pigskin while running ...

Ever since that honest Indian, Jim Thorpe, Olympic track-and-field star and all-round athlete, discovered that he had sold out his amateur standing for the pottage ($25 a week) of two summers of ...

The exact date of Jim Thorpe’s birth is unknown, but it is generally believed that the first Native American to win an Olympic gold medal for the United States—regarded by many as one of the ...

In 1887, twin boys were born in a log house on the Sac and Fox reservation near the town of Bellemont, Oklahoma. Their mother, Charlotte, a devout Roman Catholic of French and Potawatami ancestry, and ...

True story of Native American Jim Thorpe, who rose from an Oklahoma reservation to become a collegiate, Olympic, and professional star. After his medals are stripped on a technicality and his ...