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 ...

(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.

Jim Thorpe is one of those epic names in American lore - the greatest athlete ever, a Native American who overcame great odds to triumph in a number of sports - football, baseball, Olympic medals in ...

Robert Marzen Sr., 90, died on September 5 surrounded by his loving family. He started Marzen Hardware in Jim Thorpe in 1951, still run by his sons. He was a lifelong blood donor and a Board member at ...