A sports historian behind the claims that Scotland invented football says he has found the world’s oldest known pitch there.

Oldest gym membership written in Greek on papyrus 1,800 years ago reveals structured athletic life in Roman Egypt.

Given that soccer is one of the most physically demanding sports on the planet—requiring a rare combination of elite stamina, ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Hawaiʻi is home to many things that are the oldest, rarest and only in existence in the United States. On ...

2006 — Julio Franco became the oldest player in major league history to hit a home run when he hit a two-run, pinch-hit shot ...

The rise in patriotism prompted by a hostile U.S. president is renewing focus on everything Canada has given the world, and a ...

Female gorilla Fatou, the oldest of Berlin's zoo and also believed to be the world's oldest gorilla, enjoys her birthday basket with a "gorilla food surprise", as the zoo celebrates her 68th birthday ...

ONE of the country’s oldest boozers has closed down after nearly half a millennium of pouring pints. The aptly named Hole in ...

At the time of her death, she was the oldest-known gorilla in the world. In the early hours of Jan. 17, 2017, Columbus lost one of its best-known female celebrities, Colo. The western lowland ...

Firefighters in central California were working Tuesday to contain a wildfire near the Nevada border threatening a forest home to the oldest trees in the world, after making good progress on ...

The Lindstrom siblings ran in the oldest marathon race in the world, on Patriots' Day, April 21. Jzsanette Cullen, one of 10 ...