Jim Thorpe, stripped of his 1912 gold medals because he'd been paid to play minor league baseball, was reinstated Thursday as the sole winner of that year's Olympic decathlon and pentathlon by the ...

Big Jim Thorpe, famed American athlete and former U.S. Olympic great, center, sets a fast pace for some girls during a "junior olympics" event on Chicago's south side June 6, 1948 sponsored by a V.F.W ...

The Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame (OSHOF) and Jim Thorpe Association announced today that Clemson cornerback Avieon Terrell ...

The 15 semifinalists for the 2025 Jim Thorpe Award were released on Tuesday, which saw TCU safety Jamel Johnson among the ...

Cincinnati Bearcats safety Antwan Peek Jr. was named a semifinalist for the Paycom Jim Thorpe Award. Peek Jr. is a former ...

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 across a ...

A new project by the History Channel explores the triumphs and injustices of Jim Thorpe’s career. “He’s one of the greatest Americans,” the director Chris Eyre said. By Emmanuel Morgan A court ...

It’s been 100 years since Jim Thorpe dashed through the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, and we’re still chasing him. Greatest-evers are always hard to quantify, but Thorpe is especially so, a ...

Considered to be one of the greatest athletes of all time, Jim Thorpe is getting his gold medals back after he was stripped of them in 1913. The International Olympic Committee announced on Friday ...