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Rare Photos Of Wrigley's Scoreboard Mark Its 100th Anniversary
[A view of the field from inside Wrigley Field's iconic scoreboard during a baseball game between Pittsburgh Pirates and Chicago Cubs. With Boston's Fenway Park and Wrigley the only two stadiums in the majors with primary manual scoreboards, it has been a job largely shrouded in mystery until the Cu...
Scenes from the Boston Marathon
[A man limps by after finishing the Boston Marathon. Today marks the 118th Boston Marathon; security presence has been increased this year, due to two bombs that were detonated at the finish line last year, killing three people and injuring more than 260 others. Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images.]...
Man Covers Himself In 100 Pounds Of Bees To Sell Honey
Beekeeper She Ping completely covers himself in 460,000 bees in Chongqing, China last Wednesday to promote his local line of honey. The bees, weighing in at 100 lbs, fell 35 lbs short of the world record set by India's Vipin Seth in 2008. The Atlantic's In Focus blog has a great collection of photog...
Scenes From North Korea's Marathon
Yesterday for the first time in the 27-year history of the Pyongyang marathon, North Korea allowed foreign amateur and professional runners to take part. Competitors from 27 countries ran in front of crowds gathered in Kim Il Sung Stadium and around Kim Il Sung University in part to celebrate Kim Il...
Photographer Ian Derry Explains the Hazards of Shooting Underwater
Over at the always stellar A Sporting Life, photographer Ian Derry details a shoot he recently did with his free diver friend Guillaume Nery. Everything was going smoothly off the coast of Nice, France until Derry noticed just about the worst thing that can happen to an underwater photographer:...
Dancing And Kicking Ass: The Photography Of John Goodman
In his first solo exhibition in New York, photographer John Goodman combines images he's taken of boxers and ballerinas Most of his work was made backstage at the Boston Ballet and out of the legendary, now defunct Times Square Gym. He has shared some of the stories behind some his work with us. If ...
Ukrainian Outdoor Gyms Are The Best Outdoor Gyms
In his book Kachalka: Muscle Beach, photographer Kirill Golovchenko documents a famous, open-air gym outside of Kiev. More than 200 weight lifting stations, all improvised out of of scrap metal and spare car parts, stretch out over six square miles on the island of Tuhev. ...
This morning Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus was shot and killed in eastern Afghanistan by a local police officer. Last November, The Atlantic ran a large collection of her work from the country. Above, Afghan men fight each other with slings in Kandahar as par...
The Splendid Photography Of Art Shay
Legendary photographer Art Shay has an exhibition at New York's Morrison Hotel Gallery, and to celebrate the his work, Slate has published a number of Shay's best pieces in a beautiful retrospective. Seems like the man was everywhere in the 60s, and captured nearly all the iconic American entertaine...
Dennis Rodman Looks Pretty Much How You'd Expect
International diplomat Dennis Rodman showed up to the Buenos Aires leg of the Legends of Basketball Tour looking like a survivor of the cyberpunk apocalypse because of course he did. Eyeliner and lipstick on the basketball court? Sure. But it's hard to imagine that playing with so many ear/nose/lip ...
Train Surfing Is As Insane, Dangerous As It Sounds
Italian photographer Marco Casino just took first prize in the World Press Photo Multimedia Awards with his short film Staff Riding that follows South African train surfers. Yup, train surfers. Catch the entire short after the jump. ...
How An Arena Hype Video Is Made: Behind The Scenes Of Dayton's Promo
Ever wonder what goes into those quick in arena hype videos? Dayton-based creative studio Real Art just posted the above behind-the-scenes from a promo shoot for the hometown Flyers. It details a month-long design and fabrication process where a giant 'FlyRig' is made from scratch. ...
The Amazing, Vivid Sports Artwork Of Mickey Duzyj
Mickey Duzyj is an artist and designer living in Brooklyn. The Detroit native's work has been featured in the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, ESPN, Esquire and Grantland. ...
Cuonzo Martin's Vols post #Sweet16Selfie
Straight off their 83-63 win over Mercer Sunday night, Tennessee head coach Cuonzo Martin posted this selfie of his elated team. The win moves UT into their first Sweet 16 appearance since 2010, and has helped save a lackluster season for the third-year coach....
A Cold War Philly Beatdown, Illustrated
Geopolitics in the Crimea made you wistful for Cold War-era sports showdowns, where simple games became struggles between global powers? Well, illustrator Stephen Halker and the good people over at Victory Journal have a beautifully jingoistic tale of the 1976 game between the Broad Street Bullies ...
Doin' It In The Park: Pick-Up Basketball, NYC
If you're in the New York area this evening, come over to St. John's Recreation Center in Brooklyn to catch a free screening of Doin' it in the Park: Pick-Up Basketball, NYC. Bobbito Garcia and Kevin Coulia's film canvasses 180 NYC parks, from Harlem's Rucker to "The Cage" in the West Village. Not p...
Shaq In World's Largest Motion Capture Suit
As covered earlier, Shaq is out hat-in-hand asking for funding for a sequel to Shaq Fu. Buried on the behind-the-scenes photobucket gallery is this magnificent image....
The Sports Illustrations Of Edel Rodriguez
Edel Rodriguez is an award-winning illustrator who uses a variety of materials to create graphic, colorful work that ranges from conceptual to portraiture and landscape. His illustrations are often sports related and have been regularly featured on the covers of TIME and Newsweek and in the pages of...