Public Broadcasting Service

The powerful PBS documentary chronicled The Greatest's life in the early 1960s when, even as an Olympic champion, he was barred from whites-only restaurants.

Forget political commentary and stuffy British dramas--we're approaching You Go, Girl! week on PBS. In the documentary Girl Wrestler (Dec. 14, 10 p.m.) 13-year-old Tara Neal of Austin is determined to pursue her...

If you thought baseball beat writers were fashion-challenged, fast-food-fueled, sleep-deprived hacks, think again. Buster Olney, who covers the Yankees for The New York Times and whose job is illuminatingly examined...

Nothing in the foreseeable future will change the main problem confronting the Public Broadcasting Service when it turns its hand to sports. Because of its constant shortage of funds, PBS cannot now—and probably...

Bob Cousy and Bill Russell of the Celtics, Elgin Baylor and Jerry West of the Lakers. There they all were last week going head to head on prime-time television: Cooz whipping passes, Russ blocking shots, Elg faking,...