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On this day in history, May 28, 1888, Jim Thorpe, 'greatest athlete in the world,' is born
Two-time Olympic gold medalist and Pro Football Hall of Fame member James Francis “Jim” Thorpe came into this world on this day in history, May 28, 1888.
Born in a one-room cabin in the geographical area that is now Oklahoma, Thorpe was raised by Hiram and Charlotte Vieux Thorpe on the Sac and Fox reservation, according to the Oklahoma Historical Society.
Thorpe was given the Native American name “Wa-tho-huck,” meaning “Bright Path” in Sac and Fox language.
This name would quickly turn prophetic, as Thorpe would establish himself as one of the athletic superstars of the 20th century.
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In 1903, Thorpe moved from Oklahoma to Pennsylvania to attend the Carlisle Indian School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, said the Oklahoma Historical Society. While at the Carlisle Indian School, Thorpe flourished as an athlete, although his sports career had a rather unorthodox start.
Coached by future College Football Hall of Fame inductee Glenn S. “Pop” Warner, Thorpe joined the school’s track and football teams, said the Oklahoma Historical Society’s website.
Jim Thorpe, seen here in 1910, was born on this day in history, May 28, 1888. (Getty Images)
Thorpe’s entry into track and field began in 1907, the Smithsonian Magazine notes. While walking across campus, Thorpe saw the track team practicing the high jump.
Thorpe, who was 5’8″ at the time, asked if he could try to jump the bar, which was set at 5’9″, said the Smithsonian Magazine.
Wearing “overalls and a hickory work shirt,” Thorpe cleared the bar — and set the rest of his life in motion.
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The next day, Warner asked to see Thorpe, according to the Smithsonian Magazine. Rather than punish Thorpe, as the young student feared, Warner informed him that he had inadvertently broken the school record in the high jump the day before.
Thorpe quickly became a star, although he dropped out of the school in 1909. He returned to the Carlisle Indian School in 1911, and was named a football first-team All-American selection for 1911 and 1912, said the Smithsonian Institution’s website.
Jim Thorpe, above, won two gold medals at the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm. (Getty Images)
In the 1912 Olympic Games, Thorpe competed in the decathlon and pentathlon, winning both, despite his shoes going missing on the second day of the decathlon. Wearing mismatched shoes, Thorpe’s time in the 1500-meter run would go unbroken for 60 years, noted the Smithsonian Magazine.
King Gustav V of Sweden, the patron of the Games of the V Olympiad, told Thorpe, “You sir, are the greatest athlete in the world.”
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Thorpe replied, “Thanks.”
Shortly after Thorpe’s victories in Stockholm, controversy erupted. It was found that Thorpe had played semi-professional baseball in 1909 and 1910, putting him in violation of the rules regarding amateurism.
Undated photo of Jim Thorpe in a baseball uniform. Jim Thorpe was reinstated as the sole winner of the 1912 Olympic pentathlon and decathlon. (AP Photo, File)
Thorpe’s medals were stripped from him in 1913, although he was reinstated as a co-winner of the events in 1982, after he posthumously regained amateur status from the Amateur Athletic Union and the United States Olympic Committee, according to Encyclopedia.com.
In 2022, Thorpe was reinstated as the sole winner of 1912 Olympic pentathlon and decathlon by the International Olympic Committee.
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“We welcome the fact that, thanks to the great engagement of Bright Path Strong, a solution could be found,” said IOC President Thomas Bath in 2022, according to Brightpathstrong.org.
“This is a most exceptional and unique situation, which has been addressed by an extraordinary gesture of fair play from the National Olympic Committees concerned,” Bath continued.
A 1923 photo of famed football player Jim Thorpe with Oorang Indians at football practice. (Getty Images)
After the Olympics, Thorpe began playing professional baseball and football. He played professional baseball from 1913 until 1919, appearing for the New York Giants, Boston Braves and the Cincinnati Reds, said the website Baseball Reference.
During the baseball offseason, Thorpe played professional football.
In 1915, he was signed to the Canton Bulldogs for $250 per game, according to the Pro Football Hall of Fame website.
The “Jim Thorpe Award” has been awarded each year to the top defensive back in college football since 1986.
Thorpe was enshrined into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1963.
The Canton Bulldogs “claimed unofficial world championships in 1916, 1917 and 1919,” the Pro Football Hall of Fame notes, with Thorpe both playing and coaching.
“His mere presence moved pro football a giant step forward in the public’s estimation,” said the site.
Thorpe was named president of the National Football League in 1920, when the league was first organized, said the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Jim Thorpe, above, playing for the New York Giants. (Getty Images)
“He could run with speed as well as bruising power. He could pass and catch passes with the best, punt long distances and kick field goals either by dropkick or placekick,” said the website.
“Often he would demonstrate his kicking prowess during halftimes by placekicking field goals from the 50-yard line, then turning and drop-kicking through the opposite goal post. He blocked with authority and, on defense, was a bone-jarring tackler.”
While Thorpe died in 1953, his legacy and story lives on.
The “Jim Thorpe Award” has been awarded each year to the top defensive back in college football since 1986, according to the Indiana University Athletics website.
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Former President Trump is narrowly ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris in the presidential contest in Arizona, as the Democratic nominee loses ground among women, Hispanics and young voters.
A new Fox News survey of Arizona voters finds Harris trails Trump by 3 percentage points among likely voters in both the two-way matchup (48%-51%) and the expanded ballot that includes third-party candidates (47%-50%, with 3% backing other candidates). While 9 in 10 say their vote choice is locked in, both Harris and Trump have a handful of supporters saying they may change their mind.
In August, Harris was up by 1 point in the horse race among registered voters (50%-49%), while she’s down by 2 points today (48%-50%). All of these matchups are within the margin of error.
The 3-point shift among registered voters is mainly due to movement among young voters, women and Hispanics.
Since August, Harris’ 18-point lead among Hispanics has narrowed to 11 points and her 14-point edge among women is down to 8 points. What was a 13-point advantage for Harris among voters under age 30 is now a 12-point deficit, a 25-point shift. These changes are notable, even given that estimates among subgroups are more volatile.
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Trump tops Harris among Whites without a college degree, rural voters and independents. He has a narrow edge among suburbanites because more suburban men back him than suburban women favor Harris. And, by just a touch, more of his 2020 voters stick with him than Biden’s 2020 voters back Harris.
Harris has strong support among those ages 65 and over, voters with a college degree and urban voters, and still receives majority backing among women and Hispanics. Plus, 1 in 4 non-MAGA Republicans favors Harris over Trump.
By a 51%-46% margin, Trump leads among new voters, defined as those who haven’t voted in the four most recent elections.
“Arizona is looking tougher for Harris than a month ago,” says Democratic pollster Chris Anderson, who conducts Fox News surveys with Republican Daron Shaw. “If young voters and Hispanics don’t make a U-turn, it’s hard to see how she walks away with a win.”
More Arizona voters trust Trump than Harris to handle immigration (by 15 points) and the economy (+8). Those are significant leads, and they match where things stood last month — but compared to his June leads over President Biden, Trump’s advantage is down 5 points on immigration and down 7 points on the economy.
Trump is also seen as being better at making the country safe by 7 points.
There’s little difference between the candidates on who will better protect democracy (Harris +3), help the middle class (Harris +2), fight for people like you (Harris +2), and bring needed change (Trump +1).
Harris leads Trump by 15 points on handling abortion, down from her 22-point lead last month.
More than 7 in 10 Arizona voters favor the state’s proposed constitutional amendment establishing the right to an abortion, including more than two-thirds of independents and half of Republicans.
The two candidates are about equal in personal favorable ratings. Harris gets net negative marks by 3 points (48% favorable, 51% unfavorable), while Trump’s are negative by 5 points (47%-52%). For the vice-presidential candidates, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s ratings are negative by just 1 point (42%-43%) with 15% unable to rate him. Ohio Sen. JD Vance’s favorable rating is underwater by 7 points (40%-47%) and 12% have no opinion.
Trump won Arizona in 2016 by about 3.5 percentage points, while Biden’s 2020 victory was by less than half a percentage point.
In the Senate race, Democrat Ruben Gallego tops Republican Kari Lake by more than 10 percentage points: 55%-42% among likely voters and 56%-42% among registered voters. Gallego is preferred across most demographic groups, but women voters are a big part of what gives him the advantage as they back him over Lake by a 23-point margin. He also receives the support of 6 in 10 independents and nearly 2 in 10 Republicans.
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Some 15% of Gallego supporters split their ticket and back Trump in the presidential race. Some of the biggest ticket splitting is among independents, who are 16 points more likely to back Gallego than Harris, and Republicans (10 points more for Gallego). Among those voters favoring Lake, only 3% go for Harris.
Poll-pourri
Early voters are more likely to back Harris by 11 points, while Trump is favored by 30 points among the smaller group of Election Day voters.
Biden’s personal favorability is negative by 21 points, 39% favorable vs. 60% unfavorable. That’s a big decline from four years ago when his ratings were positive by 2 points (June 2020).
Thirty percent rate the U.S. economy positively, up from 25% who said the same four years ago.
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Conducted Sept. 20-24, under the joint direction of Beacon Research (D) and Shaw & Company Research (R), this Fox News Poll includes interviews with a sample of 1,021 Arizona registered voters randomly selected from a statewide voter file. Respondents spoke with live interviewers on landlines (147) and cellphones (616) or completed the survey online after receiving a text (258). Results based on the registered voter sample have a margin of sampling error of ±3 percentage points ,and for the subsample of 764 likely voters it is ±3.5 percentage points. Weights are generally applied to age, race, education and area variables to ensure the demographics of respondents are representative of the registered voter population. Likely voters are based on a probabilistic statistical model that relies on past voting history, interest in the current election, age, education, race, ethnicity, church attendance and marital status.
Fox News’ Victoria Balara contributed to this report.
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An Inland Empire resident is warning others after thieves targeted and drilled into her vehicle to steal gasoline.
The incident occurred on Sept. 19 as Heather Velasco parked her truck outside Kindred Hospital in Rancho Cucamonga where she works.
Later that day, she and a coworker were heading out to lunch when she approached her truck and noticed a strong gasoline odor.
Thinking it was emanating from a nearby diesel truck, they got into the car and began driving but immediately, Velasco knew something was wrong. Her truck was only three years old, so she was surprised anything would be malfunctioning.
“We drove across the street and my car started sputtering,” she recalled.
She eventually pulled over and that’s when she discovered someone had drilled into her truck’s fuel tank to empty the vehicle.
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The thieves drilled a hole into the truck’s fuel tank from underneath the victim’s truck. (KTLA) -
Heather Velasco is seen outside her truck and sharing her story with KTLA’s Shelby Nelson after thieves drilled holes into her car’s fuel tank to steal gasoline. (KTLA) -
A suspect was arrested in Upland for attempting to steal gasoline from a box truck’s fuel tank on Sept. 23, 2024. (Upland Police Department) -
A suspect was arrested in Upland for attempting to steal gasoline from a box truck’s fuel tank on Sept. 23, 2024. (Upland Police Department)
“I just looked under and sure enough, there was a hole and it was leaking gas and then I looked up and I saw another hole,” she said.
Velasco called the police and had her truck towed away. She was left with costly repairs in the aftermath — pay $4,000 upfront to fix the damages or pay a $1,000 deductible with an increase to her insurance premium. She chose to fix her truck by claiming her insurance.
She was also left without a car for a week which meant relying on others to drive her three children to school and at times, missing out on shifts at her workplace.
“It’s hard times,” Velasco said. “We’re living in times where everything is inflated. Trying to raise a family and trying to do things right. You’re not getting anywhere because you got these criminals on the run and they’re just doing whatever they want.”
Police noted there have been several cases of gas siphoning in the area since 2023.
In nearby Upland, police arrested a man on Sept. 23 for allegedly trying to steal gas from a box truck on the 800 block of North Mountain Avenue.
Velasco said she’s thankful no one was hurt, but is now worried that she can’t safely park her truck anywhere without fear of being targeted again.
“We should be able to go in, clock in and feel like your stuff is safe out there,” she said of parking at her workplace.
Local police recommend protecting your vehicle by having an active alarm system to deter thieves and parking near security cameras when possible.
“If you have access to it, park in a secure location like a garage or gated area, then that would be best, but otherwise parking underneath a lit area [would also be helpful],” said Upland Police Sgt. Eric DiVincenzo.
No suspect has been arrested so far as the incident remains under investigation.
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Arizona homeschooling moms say state imposing burdensome regulations with policy change: 'Feels deliberate'
Arizona homeschooling parents are accusing the state of imposing burdensome regulations on families after Democratic Attorney General Kris Mayes cracked down on the state’s voucher program requirements this summer.
Homeschooling moms Velia Aguirre and Rosemary McAtee are plaintiffs in a new lawsuit, filed by The Goldwater Institute, against the state of Arizona, Arizona Department of Education and Superintendent Thomas Horne. Aguirre and McAtee participate in the school’s Empowerment Scholarship Account “ESA,” which gives homeschooling families 90% of state taxpayer dollars that would otherwise go to the public school district or charter schools to purchase educational materials, including books and supplemental materials, for their children’s schooling.
The suit alleges that in July, AG Mayes issued “legal threats” to the Department of Education to make sure every ESA purchase had a curriculum tied to it. Goldwater says that the education department is now rejecting reimbursement requests from ESA families for the purchase of “basic educational materials,” including things like pencils and erasers, “unless parents could provide an explicit ‘curricular’ document justifying the use of each specific book title or material for their child.”
“It’s very hard. Because I’m spending several hours a week developing curriculum for things I’ve never had to develop curriculum for when I was a district employee or being in the program for four years,” Aguirre told Fox News Digital.
“So it’s cumbersome. It’s really time-consuming. It’s burdensome,” she added. “It feels like I have to present this false narrative of developing a curriculum for erasers or pencils or colored markers.”
Arizona homeschooling parents Velia Aguirre, left, and Rosemary McAtee, right, are suing the state of Arizona and Department of Education over new requirements to the state’s Empowerment Scholarship Account “ESA” program that they say imposes burdensome regulations on parents. (The Goldwater Institute)
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“It’s just odd because the attorney general just seems to lack a lot of knowledge with the whole ESA program entirely. It’s really causing strain, and it feels deliberate, being imposed on families that already have it hard educating children with developmental delays,” Aguirre said.
Aguirre teaches her three boys with special needs at home and draws on her experience as a former public school Special Education teacher to develop lessons, activities and goals tailored to each of her children’s specific needs. But the lawsuit says when she submitted receipts for several educational materials, including the classic novel, “Where the Red Fern Grows;” a periodic table of elements; math and spelling activity books; and pencils and erasers to the department in August, her reimbursement request was denied.
Parents are already required to submit expense receipts for every item purchased with the scholarship funds, the suit says. It alleges the new requirement imposes a burden on parents that “violates state law and state regulations” while adding to the “backlog of tens of thousands of purchase orders awaiting review” and puts a “senseless burden” on parents.
The second plaintiff, Rosemary McAtee, has homeschooled seven of her nine children with funding from the ESA program since 2019. She also had her purchases denied by the state after she bought four books, including the children’s classic “Brown Bear, Brown, Bear What Do You See?,” and a Catholic Encyclopedia for Children.
Both moms appealed these denials, the suit shows, but the Board of Education denied them, citing the need to provide a formal curriculum that includes these books.
Arizona homeschooling parents in the suit say the state has made their jobs much tougher with new regulations. (iStock)
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“I honestly am kind of afraid to buy anything now because if they can change the rules at the drop of a hat, and break the law, – it does break the law that the legislature put in 2020 — it just leaves me with a question mark of, ‘Am I going to be stuck carrying thousands of dollars that I’m waiting to be reimbursed on, and then they’re going to deny me, even if it meets my contract to my curriculum?’” McAtee told Fox News Digital.
According to Goldwater, Arizona lawmakers added clarifying language in 2020 to the law ensuring supplemental material that is not explicitly tied to a curriculum would not be denied to families in the ESA program. Additionally, they say the State Board of Education has also “approved rules for the program explicitly permitting the purchase of these materials without additional documentation.”
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