Aaron Hernandez, the ex-NFL star and convicted killer who fell from grace amid a pair of murder trials, hanged himself to death inside his Massachusetts prison cell early Wednesday, officials said. Corrections officers found the 27-year-old former tight end for the New England Patriots hanging from a bed sheet within his single cell at the […]
President Trump continued his verbal war with the NFL on Tuesday with a tweet questioning whether the league should continue to receive federal tax breaks while its players protested during the national anthem. The only problem? The “massive tax breaks” the NFL is supposedly receiving could be characterized as, well, “fake news.” While the NFL […]
Sergio Garcia’s a player who’s been so good, for so long, you can ID him by one name — Sergio! — even though he’s never won a major championship. Entering Sunday’s final round of the Masters, he was 0-73 in the majors. A few years back, after another crushing finish at Augusta, he all but […]
“The Most Exciting Two Minutes in Sports” is approaching — the Kentucky Derby will take place on Saturday. The event has a long history combining horse racing and southern traditions. This year will mark the 143rd race for the annual race. When did the Kentucky Derby start? The first Kentucky Derby took place in 1875. […]
Do you have a question about history? Send us your question at history@time .com and you might find your answer in a future edition of Now You Know. All sports have their own vocabularies, the shorthand lingo to communicate intricacies of rules and how play proceeds. But usually the scoring can at least be counted […]
In a statement Thursday, USA Gymnastics president and CEO Kerry Perry said the organization will no longer use the Karolyi Ranch as the national team training center. Since the 2000s, the ranch has hosted monthly training camps for elite level gymnasts — and in 2011, the ranch was named the official national training center for […]
In 1961, Walter Beach III was playing with the American Football League’s Boston Patriots when they were scheduled to travel for an away game down South. Beach, a defensive cornerback, looked at the team’s itinerary and noticed that the black and white players would be staying in separate facilities. “My particular thing was, I’m under […]
Gus Kenworthy was supposed to be happy. The American freestyle skier had just won a silver medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, and now he was being interviewed by NBC the day after—Valentine’s Day, of all days—and asked to name his Valentine’s crush. This sort of make-cute gag shouldn’t send an athlete […]
Former President George H.W. Bush and his wife Barbara Bush will flip the coin before the 2017 Super Bowl, according to their spokesman Jim McGrath. Bush, who was discharged from the hospital on Monday after suffering a bout of pneumonia, accepted the NFL’s invitation to toss the coin at the Sunday game between the New […]
Before multiple cameras filmed skiers flying through the sky at enormous heights and snowboarders flipping in the air, Nordic skier Thorleif Haugh sped down the slopes and earned three gold medals. That was in 1924, at the first Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France, where 16 countries gathered to compete in sports like figure skating, speed […]