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Meet The Boston Cop From The Sports Photo Of The Year
David Ortiz's game-tying eighth-inning grand slam would have gone down in Red Sox history anyway. But the inclusion of one bearded, exultant police officer produced an image that pushes the moment firmly into baseball lore....

This Bear Cub Thinks It's People, And It Wants To Take Your Picture
So, who's going to tell this bear cub that it is definitely not people, and that it probably won't be able to figure out how to take your picture? Don't look at me, because I'm not doing that shit. I would rather this bear maintain his whimsical outlook on life, you big jerk....

A Tribute to Bill Eppridge
Dig SI's tribute to the late Bill Eppridge. ...

Old Photos Of Ballplayers In Locker Rooms Feel Dirty. In A Good Way.
Maybe it's just banal nostalgia, but photographers working years ago seemed to take better pictures of ballplayers in their locker rooms than photographers do today....

Sunset At JerryWorld
The Cowboys don't play a lot of late afternoon games. But when they do, AT&T Stadium is perfectly primed to capture the low rays of the sun in striking, often distracting ways....

Bill Eppridge Is Dead. His Photos Will Never Die
Bill Eppridge, one of the greatest photojournalists who ever picked up a camera, a longtime LIFE and Sports Illustrated photographer and the man behind the harrowing, iconic picture of a fatally wounded Robert Kennedy lying in a pool of blood in a Los Angeles hotel kitchen in June 1968, died on Thur...

Athletes Among Us: The Stories Behind These Cool Photographs
Last year the photographer Jordan Matter released a super-cool book called Dancers Among Us. He put dancers in everyday situations—in the middle of a park, a subway station, on a busy sidewalk—and photographed them, out of context, doing their dance moves. As a follow-up to the book, Matter has rel...

Ali In Exile: The Once And Future Champ Clowns In NYC, 1968
For several years in the late Sixties, while (largely) lesser fighters vied for the heavyweight title and while his great nemesis Joe Frazier was powering his way through the ranks, Muhammad Ali was effectively in exile. Barred from the prizefighting ring for refusing induction into the Army ("War i...

Pouya Dianat's Gorgeous Baseball Photography
Slide on over to the New York Times and enjoy this slideshow of Pouya Dianat's beautiful photography. ...

See Ya, Mick: The Best Photo Ever Taken Of A Great Athlete in Decline
All the recent hoopla around Mariano Rivera's retirement brings to mind other, crappier ways that famous athletes have elected to leave the game(s) they love....

G.O.A.T
It ain't cheap but Taschen Books' tribute to Muhammad Ali, Greatest of All Time, sure is fucking fabulous. ...

Here's Willie Mays, MVP, Eating Breakfast In His Little Apartment
In 1954, Willie Mays was 23 years old. That year he hit 41 home runs, had a .345 average, and was the National League MVP. And here he is, at his rented apartment in a Harlem walk-up with his landlady, one Mrs. Goosby, looking protectively over his shoulder as he eats....

The Beautiful Photography Site: Everyday I Show
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Guns Don't Kill Doves. Texans Kill Doves
In states from Maine to Texas, Oregon to Florida, the end of summer and the beginning of autumn heralds that time of year when family and friends get together for some quality shooting. This is how it's been for generations, and the likelihood of it changing anytime soon is effectively nil....

Cool Flix
Check out Chris Ozer's photographs for Jimmie Johnson racing. ...

I'll Tumblr Fuh Ya
Mark Peter Drolet's tumblr site is remarkable. ...

True Grit: College Football Photos That Feel Real
For some sports fans, fall is the season when baseball finally gets interesting. But for countless other maniacs, autumn is about one thing: football. College football. It doesn't really matter whether a school is in the SEC or the Big Ten; the Ivy League or Big Sky; Division I, II or III: when summ...

The Few, the Proud, the Totally Chill: In Praise of Old-School Beach Bums
In February 1950, LIFE published a feature on what the magazine called "the gold-bricking existence" of ski bums at Sun Valley, Idaho. Eight months later, the magazine published a follow-up under the wonderful title, "LIFE Revisits the Ski Bums (and Finds They Are Now Beach Bums)."...

