Gregory R. Page
AP-Sportlight-Week Ahead

By The Associated Press Apr. 22, 2021 12:37 PM EDT
April 27 1956 — Rocky Marciano retires as the undefeated heavyweight boxing champion. He finished with a 49-0 record, including six title...

AP Sportlight

By The Associated Press Apr. 23, 2020 11:04 AM EDT
April 25 1950 — Charles Cooper, an All-American from Duquesne playing with the Harlem Globetrotters, becomes the first black to be picked...

FILE - In this Sept. 22, 2016, file photo, from left, Mel Page, representing his brother Greg Page; Nate Northington; Wilbur Hackett; and Houston Hogg pose after statues of them were unveiled at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. Houston Hogg, one of four African-American football players at Kentucky who helped break the Southeastern Conference color line in the late 1960s, has died. He was 71. The school announced Friday, Jan. 3, 2020, that Hogg died in Owensboro, Kentucky. (Mark Cornelison/Lexington Herald-Leader via AP, File)
Houston Hogg, helped integrate SEC at Kentucky, dies at 71

Jan. 03, 2020 11:51 AM EST