Hundreds of the biggest names in sports were part of the Elmira-Corning All Sports Banquet from 1966 to 2005. Take a look at ...

It was 60 years ago that the one of the most celebrated athletes ever was briefly employed as the team’s “special running ...

Olympic medalist Jesse Owens spent his final years in the Valley. One of his final forms of advocacy, the Jesse Owens Clinic, ...

West High's Bennie Horton was the NIC-10 all-conference quarterback. And coach Tom Schwalbach gave him extreme leeway to call ...

Jesse Owens was a record-breaking athlete who gained international fame, breaking barriers in the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany. Owens spent his final years in the Valley. In fact, one of his final ...

Jesse Owens’ place among the icons of sport is indelible. The figure far less known is the Leipzig-born long jumper whom he befriended under the Fuhrer’s gaze: Luz Long. The impeccably ...

Jesse Owens, born in Oakville, Alabama, in 1913, was a track and field athlete who became a global icon at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. As an African American comp ...

For most athletes, Jesse Owens' performance one spring afternoon in 1935 would be the accomplishment of a lifetime. In 45 minutes, he established three world records and tied another. Owens won ...

When we talk about sports, we mention Jackie Robinson, Jesse Owens, Kenny Washington, and Earl Loyd, just to name a few and here on the shore Larry Farrare is a name that can be said alongside some of ...