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A Single Frame

Sports Illustration has been around as long as organized sports have. From Olympians on Grecian urns to our modern digital drawings, illustration expresses something no camer...

The Iron Men of Sewanee

Who is the greatest college football team of all time? They hail from Tennessee, but it’s not the Vols. Rather it's the 1899 Sewanee Tigers, who after beating 5 teams in 6 day...

The Alliance

The Alliance of American Football is not the first to try and set up a second football league. In the past half century, the Alliance is the 5th challenger to the NFL’s throne...

Knuckle Up

Bare Knuckle boxing isn’t a street fight. It’s one of the oldest organized sports around. It’s strategic. It’s fast paced. It’s skillful. And it’s making a comeback. On June 2...

International Rules

Sports love their hometown heroes, but for every LeBron James there is an Anton Tinnerholm. Tinnerholm left his native Sweden in January to come and play soccer for NYCFC. Bei...

Miyagi Do: Ralph Macchio on 34 Years as the Karate Kid

When the Karate Kid came out in 1984, Ralph Macchio as his on-screen counterpart Daniel LaRusso became an American martial arts icon and kicked off a karate craze that swept A...

The Future of Baseball

In 1998 MLB imagined baseball's future with their Turn Ahead the Clock promotion. It's not quite 2027 yet, but Major League Baseball whiffed on their predictions of wonky jers...

Color Theory

Color is iconic. From the first row, to the cheap seats, all the way through the television hundreds of miles away fans can find their players with ease and identify compatrio...

A Brief Guide to the Winter Olympics

Our lives are busy and since the last Winter Olympics I’m sure you haven’t been closely following your favorite speed skaters or checking in on the luge circuit. That’s why th...

A Golden Opportunity

In 1969, the Continental Football league welcomed the Golden Aztecs, or Aztecas Dorados into the league as the first professional American Football team in Mexico. The team on...

Own the Game

Who owns your favorite sports team? There are still the Jerry Joneses and MarK Cubans of the world that drive their team with cult of personality, but more and more family own...

Storytellers of Sport

Sports generates and endless amount stories. Game recaps, profiles, investigations, features, economics, statistics, culture; there's countless angles to attack. But what rea...

In the Shadow of Giants

In the Golden Age of Baseball New York had three championship caliber teams. Then, suddenly, the city had only one. In 1957, the Giants joined the Dodgers in announcing a move...

Morningside 5 By 25

25 years ago, producer/director Mike Tollin filmed 5 high schoolers as they tried to repeat as California State Basketball Champions. He revisited their lives more than two de...

Leagues Apart: Women in professional sports

Historically, sports have been a boys-only club. Even modern women sports superstars like Serena Williams and the USWNT continually have to battle for equal pay and respect. B...

Sports "Just So" Stories

Sports are weird. Athletics are a collection of idiosyncratic rules, customs, traditions, and superstitions. Here we delve into the backstories for four of the strangest thing...

Minor Players: How big league hopefuls carried baseball through World War II

Everyone knows the MLB war heroes, Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio, Hank Greenberg, but for every all-star that went abroad, scores of Minor Leaguers served on the front lines, as...

Memories in your Pocket: The History of Baseball Cards

Baseball cards are as American as well ... cigarettes and chewing gum. Cards have captured the imaginations of the young and the young at heart for over a century as a portal ...

The Easter Epic

In 1987, the Islanders and the Capitals battled for 4 overtimes in game 7 of the division semifinals to determine a winner. In suburban Massachusetts, a young boy watched the...

Sports...Illustrated: Comics' love affair with athletics

Superheroes may be the comic book industry's bread and butter, but the weeklies have had their fare share of flannel-clad heroes too. From horse racing comics at the turn of t...

Learning How to Dance: Northwestern's foolproof plan for a first NCAA Tournament appearance

In 1939, Northwestern University hosted the first NCAA Tournament. In the 77 years since NU has never made the tournament, but looks like it may be on the cusp of the big danc...

Baseball's Blacksheep: Black people in baseball from the Negro League to the MLB

The Negro Leagues allowed black men play professional baseball in a segregated America. 80 years later the MLB is desperately trying to increase black involvement in their gam...

The NHL at 100

From a tiny league of 6 teams in the Northeast of North America to a global sport phenomenon, the NHL has grown a lot. From Denis Brodeur's groundbreaking photography to the '...

Love AND1 Basketball

With two friends, a basement, and a love for street basketball, Seth Berger built AND1 athletic company to take on Nike. He now works for the 76ers Innovation Lab, but still i...

The Name on the Front

They say the name on the front of the jersey is more important than the name on the back, but what happens when there's two names on the front? Soon the Philadelphia 76ers wil...

Giant: The amazing life of Andre the Giant

Andre Rene Roussimoff was larger than life. His immense size earned him the stage name Andre the Giant as he helped take pro wrestling from community center gyms to Madison Sq...

General Election: Donald Trump, the New Jersey Generals and the race for the White House

In 1984, Donald Trump became owner of the USFL football team, the New Jersey Generals. By 1986 the league had collapsed. Before America votes on whether Trump should be Comman...

Burnt Orange And Crimson

Since the early 1900s, the universities of Texas and Oklahoma have played an annual game of football that has become one of the most heated rivalries in the world of sports. F...

The Score Between the Scoring: The intersection of sport and music

A live soundtrack has always heightened game play. From military marching bands during civil war baseball games, to the huge production of the super bowl half time show, sport...

Slow Motion: The story of Super Bowl XXXIV's final play

The first Super Bowl of the new millenium also turned out to be one of the most memorable editions of the NFL's championship game. To celebrate the beginning of football seaso...

The Doping Addiction

Sports have a drug problem. Athletes have been doping for the better part of a century in order to gain an edge on the field and leagues have continued to look the other way. ...

A 'crazy' and the steeplechase

The Steeplechase is a bizarre sideshow in the world of track, a 3,000-meter obstacle course, involving several jumps into pools of water, was originally meant to be ridden on ...

Minisode: Olympic Village missteps from Rio's fires to state prisons

Rio's Olympic Village has big problems, continuing a legacy of 'sub-par' athlete housing at the games....

How Olympians make ends meet

You'll see American Olympians in Rio this summer, but how do these athletes make ends meet while spending time, money, and energy preparing for one of the biggest events of th...