Many self-professed champions of freedom throughout the centuries have looked to ancient Sparta as an inspiration. The doomed stand of 300 Spartan warriors against the Persian Empire at Thermopylae in ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Former Detroit Piston Lindsey Hunter says “everything kind of aligned” to draw him to coach basketball at Sparta High School. “God makes things happen for a reason,” ...

A chance meeting at the Morris Museum changed the course of Jack Clark’s life. Working as a student teacher in Mountain Lakes, Clark was looking to earn extra money by selling paperweights to gift ...

SPARTA - Call it trust or a matter of faith, but Jessica Curtis was sure from the first time her congenitally deformed right leg was operated on when she was just 13 years old that she would one day ...

Chelsea will play Steaua Bucharest in the last 16 of the Europa League after they spluttered to a 1-1 draw against Sparta Prague at Stamford Bridge. The result gave the Blues a 2-1 victory on ...

Sparta Prague and Chelsea last met at the beginning of the Roman Abramovich era in 2003. The Blues won that tie 1-0 on aggregate courtesy of a win in Prague, a feat they are on course to repeat this ...

SPARTA, Michigan — Seeing a baseball team getting together in the cold month of December may not be what you'd expect to see. But come Friday night, the Sparta High School baseball team will get ...