Sports

Babe Ruth: Color Photos of an Ailing Legend

By Ben Cosgrove

The First Super Bowl: Rare Photos From a Football Classic

By Ben Cosgrove

Terry Sawchuk: A Face Only a Hockey Puck Could Love

By Ben Cosgrove

LIFE at the 'Game of the Century': Notre Dame vs. Michigan State, 1966

By Liz Ronk
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Roll Another One: LIFE Goes Bowling

There's a lot to be said for bowling. It's loud. It involves a kind of controlled violence. It requires strength, coordination and genuine technique. It's a lot of damn fun.

By Ben Cosgrove

LIFE With the Man: Rare and Classic Photos of Stan Musial

With St. Louis back in the World Series, LIFE.com presents a gallery of photos -- many of which never ran in LIFE -- of the greatest Cardinal of them all, on and off the field.

By Ben Cosgrove

Cheerleading Boot Camp: A WWII Vet Toughens Up His Recruits

In September 1965, LIFE magazine profiled a man named Bill Horan, a 40-year-old World War II paratrooper who spent his days yelling at young women -- for their own good.

By Ben Cosgrove

It's Time to Pay College Athletes

College sports are mass entertainment. It's time to fully reward players for their work

By Sean Gregory

Hit the Deck: LIFE Goes Skateboarding

LIFE.com looks back at the early, anarchic days of a quintessentially American pastime that, over the years, has been embraced by millions around the world.

By Ben Cosgrove

LIFE at the 1948 London Olympics

Sixty-five years after they helped lift the spirits of post-World War II England -- and much of the rest of the sporting world -- LIFE.com recalls the 1948 London Olympic Games.

By Liz Ronk

Tough Enough: Rare Photos of Ben Hogan's Return to Golf, January 1950

As the 2013 U.S. Open gets underway at Merion in Ardmore, Pa., LIFE.com pays tribute to Ben Hogan's astonishing return to the links in January 1950, less than a year after a hellish car accident almost took his life.

By Liz Ronk

National Running Day: Portraits of Speed, Grace and Power

On National Running Day, LIFE.com offers photos by a pioneer of stroboscopic photography, Gjon Mili, celebrating the beauty, grace and power of the sport.

By Ben Cosgrove

Willie Mays: Photos of the Say Hey Kid, on and off the Diamond

With all due respect to Aaron, Musial, and even Ruth, Willie Mays was the greatest all-around player baseball has ever seen. The epitome of the “five tool” threat—he could run, throw, field and hit for...

By Ben Cosgrove

Pistorius and South Africa's Culture of Violence

The Olympian and his girlfriend seemed to have the perfect romance--until he killed her

By Alex Perry

LIFE With Dem Bums: Spring Training at Dodgertown, 1948

A series of pictures — most of which never ran in LIFE — from the Dodgers' storied spring training camp serve, 65 years later, as a welcome reminder of why so many of us first fell in love with the game in the first place.

By Ben Cosgrove

The Strange World of Basque Sports

LightBox presents Spanish photographer Lucia Herrero's look into the odd world of Herri Kirolak, the rural sports of the Basques.

By Felipe Cabrera

LIFE on the Gridiron: Old-School College Football Photos

LIFE.com celebrates the players, fans, cheerleaders and coaches who made the action on and off the college gridiron back in the day so downright picturesque.

By Ben Cosgrove

Wheelchair Bodybuilders Muscle Their Way to the Top

Photographer Lauren Fleishman has spent the past year immersed in the world of wheelchair bodybuilding.

By Lily Rothman

Pictures of the Week: September 21 - 28

From the NFL touchdown controversy in the U.S. and Israelis observing Yom Kippur to China's first aircraft carrier and surfing with dolphins in Australia, TIME presents the best images of the week.

By TIME Photo Department

A Visionary Journey

Blind distance runner Henry Wanyoike has overcome his disability to become a Paralympic hero.

By Michael Schuman
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