ABC's Wide World of Sports (tv program)

Robert Vigorito knew he had changed some lives over the years since he helped start the Columbia Triathlon in 1984. He transformed an inaugural event that attracted fewer than 100 competitors into one of the top triathlons in the country with as many as...

I sat back on the banana seat of my Huffy three-speed and gazed down the steep slope of the trail in a way that I thought resembled the way Evel Knievel sat and looked down at the rows of buses lined up between his ramps before a jump. I had ABC's Wide...

Here's what members of the national media are saying about the late Jim McKay, who died Saturday at 86: • ESPN.com's Jeremy Schaap remembers McKay as "a reporter with the soul of a poet": McKay was special not just because he was a solid reporter...

Jim McKay probably would have been a little embarrassed that an entire ballroom of people made such a fuss in his honor last night at the Hilton Baltimore. Throughout his broadcasting career, he always strived to make the story about his subjects, not...

Jim McKay, who spoke the first words on a broadcast on Baltimore television and matured with the fledgling medium into one of its most respected and beloved sports commentators, died this morning of natural causes. He was 86. McKay lived with his...

Sal Marchiano, the sports anchor for the CW11 News At Ten, has been reporting sports on New York television for 40 years. Brooklyn-born and bred, Sal has always worked in the New York metropolitan area. In 1963, after graduating from Fordham...

Jim McKay: My World in My Words, an HBO documentary on the life of the legendary sportscaster, is at its best when it gets personal, very personal - as in his relationship with his wife, Margaret. There's the story about how McKay's hands began shaking...

In 1971, filmmaker Bruce Brown — previously noted for the surfing ode "Endless Summer" — helped kick-start an explosion of interest in the motorcycle world with his Oscar- nominated documentary "On Any Sunday." More than three decades later,...