“Pitch me outside, I will hit .400,” said Roberto Clemente. “Pitch me inside and you will not find the ball.” Clemente was a 15 time All-Star, a batting champion and perennial Gold Glove outfielder. He could do it all, with ...

“We get into the ring and we say, welcome to big time boxing.” –Emanuel Steward, Kronk Gym The sounds coming out of the Kronk Gym were of struggle. Of toil and determination. Of a speed bag bouncing in rhythm from ...

“I’m a villain at heart. I’m a born villain.” At first there was the sound, as if blowing in from a distant countryside. Bagpipes that chilled an arena in anticipation. Then the visual itself of a strutting villain in his ...

“I just want to get on the court.” Carmelo Anthony left his mark forever during the 2003 season at Syracuse, a run that sent shockwaves down the halls of the Carrier Dome that still shake the rafters there two decades ...

“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee…” Behind the bombast and audacity, the lyrics and the rhymes, there was a man obsessed with being great. Muhammad Ali spent his training camps during the Golden Era of heavyweights in a ...

“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don’t do that, you are wasting your time on this Earth.” Roberto Clemente was one of the very best ballplayers ...

“Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.” A few years before signing a professional contract with Santos FC at just 15 years old, Pelé was in Três Corações, Brazil, using a soccer ball that ...

The ROF Core Collection — the same super-comfortable, high-end fabrics and fits that make up our usual ROF collections. No graphics, but still 100% ROF style. Know your roots and write your own story with the new ROF Core Collection ...

Sing it with us! Flag we love! Orange! Float for aye-Old Syracuse, o’er thee,Loyal be thy sons and daughtersTo thy memory Syracuse University has one of the richest collegiate sports traditions going. With 16 total national champions across boxing, cross ...

“Before they can say ‘Jackie Robinson,’ trouble in copious quantities is apt to break out for opponents of the University of California at Los Angeles on gridirons some of these fine fall days.” –LA Times, 1939 The fact that Jackie ...

Jackson State University. A historic institution with the world’s most famous marching band — the Sonic Boom of the South — providing the soundtrack to the heart of Mississippi. It was here that the man they called “Sweetness” came of ...