During the 1980s, Great Britain’s Margaret Thatcher identified 3 profound ills that plagued her country: the IRA, striking miners, and football hooligans.

It’s no secret that horse racing has lost ground to online gambling and alternative sports betting, not to mention cultural shifts

Who said young sports lovers can’t rise to spiritual loftiness? Decades before he became Pope Francis (2013-25), young Jorge Mario Bergoglio

On April 30, 1939, Lou Gehrig played his last baseball game. Two years later, the greatest Captain the New York Yankees had ever produced

The Story of the Masters fills what had been a gap in golf literature. While many books were written about the famed tournament, few provided

One of the most storied rivalries in sports history became so ingrained in popular culture that it was even recreated as a Broadway show

Two questions arose after star pitcher, Rube Waddell, missed the 1905 World Series: Did he skip the Fall Classic because he injured his

On the morning of March 29, 1984, the city of Baltimore woke up to the news that its professional football team was gone.

“The kids were cruel and it was hurtful. I got picked on a lot,” says Muggsy Bogues in conversation with Rmag. At 5’3, Bogues was the shortest player

On the night of May 25th, 1965, photographers John Rooney of the Associated Press and Neil Leifer of Sports illustrated snapped similar pictures

In November, 1959, America’s reigning amateur ice hockey champions, the Brockton ‘Wetzells’ of Massachusetts, accepted an invitation to play

Even the New York Times couldn’t resist giving it a screaming headline on their SportsMonday front-page: ‘Petty Wins Daytona After Leaders Crash

Awash by the floodlights at Miami’s Orange Bowl, Benny Babula leaned forward at the waist and contemplated the 22 yards between him and the goal post.

On the morning of February 15, 1961, Sabena flight 548 was making its long approach into Zaventem Airport in Brussels, Belgium.

Fresh from his 1974 US Open victory against Australia’s Ken Rosewall, Jimmy Connors came off the court at Forest Hills and told his manager, “Get me Laver!”

In the early 1970s, the New York Cosmos were an unremarkable, semi-professional soccer club playing a game that most Americans never cared for.

Before racking up over 1,000 tackles and winning Super Bowl XXIX, Gary Plummer was an undrafted nose tackle-turned-linebacker who played

In 1980, the intersection of sports and politics came to a bizarre head. Faced with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, President Jimmy