One of the nation's most successful sporting events began as a financial flop. Hastily planned and poorly promoted, the inaugural NCAA tournament in 1939 was such an afterthought that many teams that ...

Willie "Woo Woo" Wong, a man of small stature but large athletic talent who went on to become one of San Francisco's biggest basketball names in the 1940s and among the finest Chinese American players ...

GASTONIA - When Duke University begins its 111th season of basketball on Friday night in the Basketball Hall of Fame Tip-Off Classic, the Blue Devils will be the No. 1 team in the country and a ...

During his time as head coach, Forrest “Frosty” Cox led the team to two National Invitational Tournaments and three NCAA tournaments. The 1937-38 team appeared in the NIT, reaching the finals. The ...

It was a chaotic scene easily mistaken for the Stock Market Crash of 1929. Thousands of hysterical, screaming men in suits and fedoras filled narrow streets, packed like sardines and swept along in a ...

Sports movies combine big dreams with steep challenges, high hopes with hard work, heartbreaking failure with inspiring success. You can say the same thing about a Wisconsin author’s real-life quest ...

During the 1940s, downtown Hammond was the place to go — whether it was to shop, see a show, or grab a bite to eat. On March 31, 1940, the usual weekend crowd increased from a few hundred to tens of ...

Author Dan Manoyan died last year, leading many people to assume that his book on Granite City’s 1940 state championship basketball team would never be made into a movie. Enter Randall Manoyan, Dan’s ...

HAMMOND — In the 1940 Indiana Boys Basketball State Tournament, the Hammond Tech Tigers beat Dyer, E.C. Washington, Clark, Whiting, Brook, Froebel, South Bend Riley, Logansport and Lapel before ...