On Nov. 9, 1951, Jim Thorpe, who had been voted “Greatest Athlete of the Half-Century” a year earlier in an Associated Press poll of nearly 400 sportswriters and broadcasters, had a cancerous tumor ...

The story of Jim Thorpe, America’s greatest-ever athlete and Native American icon, can’t be told enough, be it Hollywood-clumsily in 1951 (“Jim Thorpe — All-American,” starring Irish-American actor ...

(KGET) — Chris Eyre considers it almost criminal that when people are asked who was the greatest athlete of the 20 th Century that Babe Ruth, Muhammad Ali or Michael Jordan are most often mentioned.