The New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA) announced Thursday that John Imbriale has retired as NYRA’s track announcer, bringing to an end a distinguished 44-year career at NYRA in which he ...

Tracing its roots back to the original Olympic games, track and field has evolved into a sport on the cutting edge of the 21 st century sports scene. Team USA has established itself as the World's #1 ...

Short track is form of speed skating contested around an international-sized hockey rink, 111 meters in length. Athletes race simultaneously, jockeying for position for the duration of the multi-lap ...

As such, it follows in the tradition of Burns's exploration of other American inventions, such as baseball and jazz. The narrative traces the birth of the national park idea in the mid-1800s and ...

Robin Hilton is a host and senior producer for the All Songs Considered podcast and Tiny Desk, a series he helped create -- and named -- in 2008. He’s since produced performances at the Desk by ...

Nestled between the woods in Vinton, Louisiana — just about a hour’s drive from Beaumont — lies a track riddled with horse racing history that gives local fans a unique view of the sport.

Robin Givhan is Washington Post senior critic-at-large writing about politics, race and the arts. Previously, she covered the fashion industry as a business, as a cultural institution and as pure ...

WEST Coast's young midfielders might not have taken the big steps many expected they would this year, but assistant coach Scott Burns believes the highly-touted group is still on track to drive the ...

Virtuous outlaw Robin Hood and his band of spirited allies fight corruption in 13th-century England. An archer for King Richard, Robin travels to Nottingham after the king dies and learns that a ...

This species’ often confiding nature, distinctive plumage, pleasing song, and acceptance of human-dominated habitats make it one of the most beloved of North American birds. Polytypic. Length 10 ...

The Civil War, an epic nine-episode series by the award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and produced in conjunction with WETA, Washington, D.C., first aired in September of 1990 to an ...