Pele and his Santos team-mates have often claimed they were behind a ceasefire struck during Nigeria's brutal civil war in 1969 but is the story more fiction than fact?

The world wanted to touch, to witness Pele. Other than Muhammad Ali, no other athlete could rival the magnitude of his popularity. In Nigeria a two-day truce was declared in the war with Biafra so ...

But deciding between athletes who are among the most widely known names in history (Ali, Pele and Jordan), not to mention some of the most courageous (Owens and Robinson), most dominant (Thorpe ...