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Cultural systems have historically defined sex segregation. The imperfect science has led to failures in policing gender in sports.

Organized movements to bring racial equality to the golf course have been part of the sport since the early 1900s.

What happens when former football players, accustomed to practicing and playing in all-male environments, join gender-integrated cheerleading squads?

By dispatching women tennis players on world tours, the US Department of State hoped to garner approval for the American way of life.

American racers earned a reputation for deception, and Cuckoo Collins led the pack with an outsize talent for cheating.

The sport of Newcomb ball was created by Clara Gregory Baer two years before volleyball. Now forgotten, it's a good bet it lives on in the gyms and beach courts of today.

Apartheid policies that segregated sports in South Africa were challenged by its own athletes, as well as internationally.

The effects of climate change are already being felt by some ski resorts, but filling in the slopes with artificial snow may not be a good solution.

Swing for the bleachers with these awesome lantern slides from the early years of professional baseball.