Professional Basketball Player. The greatest NCAA college basketball scorer in history, he was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1987. He played collegiately for his father, head coach Press Maravich, at Louisiana State University's Tigers team. He spent most of his professional career as a shooting guard with the Atlanta Hawks (1970 to 1974) and the New Orleans (now Utah) Jazz (1974 to 1980). He finished his NBA career with the Boston Celtics in 1980. He collapsed and died after playing in a pick-up basketball game in Pasadena, California.
Invented in 1891 by a Canadian PE teacher, basketball has become a popular sport - and these are the photos showing many of us enjoying "hoops".
Although very popular now, the game of basketball is only a little over 120 years old. It was invented by a Canadian who became a PE teacher in Massachusetts - he needed a way to keep students busy at...
Baseball, basketball, boxing, soccer, football, hockey, golf, gymnastics, rugby, swimming, track, tennis...photos of people playing sports over the past century and a half.
No, we don't have photos of the first Olympic Games in 776 BC but since the invention of photography, sports activities have been popular subjects for photographers. Just look at the popularity of bas...