Once upon a time, NHL goalies played without masks. Unsurprisingly, their faces often got all fucked up. In 1966,…
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I was never a Bears fan, although I do admire the uniform — orange, black and white together just feels football-y,…
[NOTE: The black and white photo that was previously atop this post has been replaced with a far more excellent…
At first glance, it's just a photo of Big Blue fans watching the 1962 NFL title game while seated outside a…
Everyone's talking about JFK these days, and why not? He and his messed-up brothers from that twisted, doomed family…
In September 1965, LIFE magazine profiled a man named Bill Horan, a World War II vet who spent his days yelling at…
Joe Frazier died two years ago today. Now is as good a time as any to pay tribute to the former champ through a…
It's been two decades since they won an NCAA title. The glory years of John Wooden's titanic career are faded…
The legendary Grand Guignol Theater in Paris was not a haunted house, but a serious dramatic enterprise that put on…
People liked Stan Musial. And he liked them. His teammate (and badass competitor supreme) Bob Gibson once said,…
Bowling is a ritualized behavior that requires strength, coordination and an often decidedly idiosyncratic technique…
Forty-five years ago, on Oct. 16. 1968, U.S. sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos stood atop the medal podium at…
Maybe it's just banal nostalgia, but photographers working years ago seemed to take better pictures of ballplayers…
Bill Eppridge, one of the greatest photojournalists who ever picked up a camera, a longtime LIFE and Sports…
For several years in the late Sixties, while (largely) lesser fighters vied for the heavyweight title and while his…
All the recent hoopla around Mariano Rivera's retirement brings to mind other, crappier ways that famous athletes…
In 1954, Willie Mays was 23 years old. That year he hit 41 home runs, had a .345 average, and was the National…
In states from Maine to Texas, Oregon to Florida, the end of summer and the beginning of autumn heralds that time of…
For some sports fans, fall is the season when baseball finally gets interesting. But for countless other maniacs,…
In February 1950, LIFE published a feature on what the magazine called "the gold-bricking existence" of ski bums at…