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Over the years, the Detroit Athletic Club has provided financial assistance and training opportunities for a number of amateur athletes preparing for the Olympic Games. At the 1956 U.S. Olympic Team Trials, springboard divers Jeanne Stunyo of Gary, Indiana and Mackenzie High School graduate Barbara Gilders-Dudeck were sponsored by the DAC .
Jerome Adams Utley (January 7, 1881 – April 24, 1959 [1]) was an American baseball player and coach, contracting engineer, hotelier and boxing promoter. He played and coached college baseball for the Michigan Wolverines baseball team in the early 1900s.
The "Detroit Brawl" lineup is deep with some of the world's top talent; organizers hope it will help reinvigorate Detroit's boxing community.
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Champions Day (also known as "Day of Champions" or "City of Champions Day") is a special day that was set aside in 1936 to commemorate a number of sporting victories and accomplishments by Detroit, Michigan natives and teams in the early 1930s, and especially the 1935–36 sports season.
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The Detroit Shock practice at Joe Louis Arena before Game 5 of the 2006 WNBA Finals. Joe Louis Arena was an arena in Downtown Detroit . Completed in 1979 at a cost of US$57 million as a replacement for Olympia Stadium , it sat adjacent to Cobo Center on the bank of the Detroit River and was accessible by the Joe Louis Arena station on the ...
Matthews regained the World Welterweight Title from Rube Ferns on October 16, 1900, at the Cadillac Athletic Club in Detroit, Michigan, in a fifteen-round points decision. The Detroit Free Press gave all but two rounds to Ferns, who entered the ring with sores on his shoulder which opened during the bout. Matthews landed solid blows the Ferns ...