JuVaughn Harrison is set to make history at Tokyo 2020, becoming the first American man since Jim Thorpe in 1912 to compete in both the high jump and the long jump. Harrison should be a contender in ...

The men’s high jump at the Olympics came down to sudden death. After New Zealand’s Hamish Kerr and American Shelby McEwen each cleared 2.36 meters, the two athletes went to a jump-off for gold, ...

If there is one takeaway from the 2026 college football season so far, it’s this: we don’t know who’s good and we don’t know who’s bad, which makes forecasting the future spectacularly difficult.

Dick Fosbury, who won the 1968 Olympic high jump title using a new, back-first high jump technique known as the Fosbury Flop, died Sunday morning at age 76. Fosbury died peacefully after a short bout ...

JuVaughn Harrison arrived at LSU in the fall of 2017 as an 18-year-old high-jump specialist. More than most track and field events, the high jump can become stifling. “It’s an event where you can bang ...

TOKYO -- Three-time high jump world champion Mutaz Barshim has ruled himself out of the world athletics championships that open Saturday in Japan after failing to recover from a long-term foot injury.

(Editor's note: This story was published before the 2022-23 NBA season as part of The Sporting News' 6 for No. 6 series.) Bill Russell's legendary NBA career firmly puts him among the greatest to have ...