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On this day in 1936, at the Olympic Games in Berlin, track and field star Jesse Owens shattered Hitler’s white supremacist propaganda in his own country. When Owens arrived in Germany’s ...
Dozen of Valley athletes reached the podium at the OHSAA State Track and Field meet at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium on the campus of Ohio State University this past weekend.
The 2025 Ohio High School Athletic Association State Track and Field Championships are in the books. And Richland County athletes and teams showed off in front of thousands at Jesse Owens Memorial ...
Chalker junior Ethan Bosch (middle) races toward the finish line during the Division III 100m dash finals, winning the state title with a time of 10.76s on Saturday at Ohio State’s Jesse Owens ...
The Hilliard Davidson girls 3,200-meter relay gave distance coach Nate King a going-away present at the Division I state track and field meet June 6 at Ohio State’s Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium.
The Hilliard Davidson girls 3,200-meter relay gave distance coach Nate King a going-away present at the OHSAA state track and field meet June 6.
Defensive line participants stole the show at the 2025 Orlando FBU Camp as Jesse Barker Jr. of South Lake, Mateo Rivera and Noah Prince of Bishop Moore, Jamarcus Tanner of Apopka, and Kellen Hatche… ...
Jackson’s recent poem “Exit Wound,” which won the 2024 Academy of American Poets Prize, explores the story of Jesse Owens, the American track and field athlete who won four gold medals at ...
Almost 90 years since Black American Jesse Owens won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, a new film tells the heartwarming story of sportsmanship, solidarity and the struggles he ...
Jesse Owens won four Olympic golds — then was paid to campaign against FDR After breaking records at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Owens was paid handsomely to stump for Roosevelt’s opponent.
The school won 27 conference titles from 1931 to 1964 - a streak of greatness started by Jesse Owens. He then ran track for Ohio State and later went on to win four gold medals at the 1936 ...