But in 1954 all sports stories were overshadowed by what happened on a track in England on May 6.
By Richard Rothschild, Sports Illustrated
Imagine a sports landscape ruled by baseball, where college football is more popular than the National Football League, horse racing and boxing draw...
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Prize purse of $24,000 on the line for The Running Institute Ron Warhurst Mile and women's 800 meters in Saline
By Justin P. Hicks, mlive.com
ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Nick Willis dreams big. He also knows how to finish.
The silver medal-winning Olympian and University of Michigan alumnus...
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With 1,000 fans screaming, clapping, and slamming their hands on the track, yelling "GET IT, GET IT, GET IT!"
By Donnie Cowart
The Early Years
I can trace my thoughts about a sub-4 minute Mile all the way back to middle school. Just starting my running career, I had no idea the challenge and...
First time two men go sub-4 minutes in the same Mile race
By Bring Back the Mile
Sixty years ago, on Saturday, August 7, at the 1954 British Empire & Commonwealth Games in Vancouver, Canada, the world’s two best Milers, England’s Roger Bannister, the first man to run a sub-4 minute Mile, and...
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