Florence Griffith-Joyner

Over RATEDFlo-JoFor one season she transformed herself from a workaday sprinter named Florence Griffith Joyner into a cultural icon named Flo-Jo. The year was 1988 and—with slinky racing suits straight out of...

Terrell Davis's mother should be the holder of his Super Bowl MVP trophy.—Jeff Martinez, Pueblo, Colo.

Close your eyes and speak her stage name: Flo-Jo. An image forms in the mind. She's running impossibly fast, drawing clear from others in the race while wearing a uniform that's the child of Nike and Victoria's...

Marion Jones's 10.7l-second 100-meter dash last week in Chengdu, China, electrified the world of track and field. No, it wasn't a world record—it was simply within shouting distance of the mark, the otherworldly...

Daniella Deutscher, who plays Julie Connor, the only girl on the Deering High boys' basketball team in NBC's teen sitcom Hang Time (Saturday, 10:30 a.m.), understands the difference between a layup and a close-up. "I...