Born in 1929 in Michigan, Duane Maas took on the nickname “Duke” as a child, as he disliked his given first name. He grew up working on his family’s farm and said that milking the farm’s cows helped ...

• Jerry West’s 63-foot buzzer-beating heave that sent Game 3 of the 1970 NBA Finals between the Lakers and New York Knicks to overtime. (If the 3-point shot had been in existence then, the Lakers ...

The Dodgers have River Ryan returning from 2024 Tommy John surgery, and is expected to be part of the team’s starting rotation puzzle in the 2026 season. There’s also at least a chance that he might ...

Actor Charlotte Rampling turns 80 and golfer José María Olazábal turns 60, among the famous birthdays for Feb. 5.

Tamás Vásáry, the Hungarian pianist, who has died aged 92, was one of the finest interpreters of Liszt and Chopin in the ...

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Here are a baker’s dozen of 13 former Disney TV series that many people have forgotten about. How many of them do you ...

The inspector known as Inspector 5-Henry-8 often went into prisons with a bible to seek salvation for killers he'd helped ...

An all-singing, all-dancing Paddington Bear continues to dazzle the West End in an irresistible family-friendly musical of his own, and there’s still time to catch Breaking Bad’s Bryan Cranston in a ...

Donald Trump, it is fair to assume, will be switching channels during this year’s Super Bowl halftime show. The U.S. president has already said that he won’t be attending Super Bowl LX in person, ...

Pinch-hitter Dusty Rhodes was manager Leo Durocher's secret weapon.

One of the reasons we love following celebrities on social media and in the tabloids is that through them, we can vicariously ...