ANN ARBOR, MI - People walking by Ferry Field the last few weeks noticed a piece of history was missing. The historic field in Ann Arbor used for University of Michigan track was once the site where ...

Owens, who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, was voted No. 6 among North American athletes of the 20th century by SportsCentury's distinguished 48-person panel.

A new plaque honoring a former Ohio State athlete will be unveiled outside Ferry Field on the campus of the University of Michigan Thursday. World Athletics, formerly known as the International ...

A 1936 Olympics gold medal won by Jesse Owens sold for $1,466,574 early Sunday morning, the highest price ever paid for a piece of Olympics memorabilia, ESPN reports. Suggested Reading The Four Black ...

Jesse Owens – who set four world records in a college meet with Ohio State in 1935 – was a celebrity heading into the 1936 ...

Ann Arbor — It's been almost 90 years since legendary Olympic champion Jesse Owens made his memorable mark at Ferry Field on the University of Michigan campus. On May 25, 1935, Owens, then a ...

Sports are a microcosm of society. Perhaps there’s no better example of that than when Jesse Owens competed in the 1936 Berlin Olympics in the heart of Nazi Germany, persevered and won four gold ...

Adolf Hitler arrived too late to see Jesse Owens blazing down the track in Berlin’s Olympic Stadium on Aug. 3, 1936, winning the 100-meter race in a record-tying 10.3 seconds and edging out fellow ...