Over six decades on, 1961 Fleer Basketball remains one of the most important basketball trading card sets of all-time. A truly phenomenal checklist is bettered only by the presence of a group of ...

Coach Ed Jucker holds the 1961 National Championship trophy in Kansas City after the Bearcats defeated Ohio State. It was a daunting task: How do you take 20 minutes of silent game film, and turn it ...

If you’re lucky enough to put your hands on a copy of the 50-year-old tome known as the 1961-62 North Harford High School Yearbook, open it up to the athletics section and thumb along until you come ...

NANTICOKE -- In 1961, John F. Kennedy was president, a gallon of gas only cost a quarter, and the Nanticoke High School boys basketball team won the state championship. On Friday night, the school ...

The winds of change already were in the air. A vibrant, handsome and athletic young man from Massachusetts – John Fitzgerald Kennedy – was just inaugurated as the 35th president of the United States.

Down by seven points to Bemidji late in the 1961 championship game, Terry Kunze overheard a Duluth Central teammate say, "Second place isn't that bad." "I just about blew up," Kunze recently recalled ...

INDIANAPOLIS – You’ve seen the billboards. Big things, right? Bright yellow, like the sun, with a gigantic basketball barging in from the right. They’ve been up since early December and they’re ...

The Cincinnati Bearcats were a college basketball dynasty before UCLA. The living members of the team still get together to celebrate their friendships. The team went to five straight Final Fours from ...

There have been multi-sport athletes who maybe achieved more, but you would be hard-pressed to find one who had a better year than the University of Cincinnati's Carl Bouldin in 1961. Sure, there's ...