Life Lessons from Evel Knievel Try again, fail again, fail better, but in leathers on a motorcycle. Maybe throw in some snakes and lions, too.

In 1974, Evel Knievel attempted a three-quarter-mile jump across Idaho's Snake River Canyon in a steam-powered rocket. He failed, but the highly promoted stunt helped him achieve celebrity status.

In “Evel Live,” airing Sunday (8-11 p.m.) from Las Vegas on History, Pastrana will pay homage to the godfather of action sports, Evel Knievel, by attempting three of Knievel’s iconic jumps.

He sported the red, white and blue, and jumped his way into the national psyche in a time when the country was in need of heroes. He was Evel Knievel and he was notorious for daredevil motorcycle ...

Evel Knievel biography gets to the heart of a hard-charging daredevil.

Robert “Evel” Knievel is the most famous American daredevil of all time, but who was he behind the signature Stars-and-Stripes motorcycle leathers and cape?

My Evel-mania peaked in 1976, when my dad took me to see him jump at the Seattle Kingdome. After Snake River, he had rebroken his pelvis trying to jump 13 buses at London’s Wembley Stadium.

Evel Knievel's widow, Krystal, visited the museum under construction at Topeka Harley Davidson. She says it fulfills a life-long dream for him.

Long before the now daily bombardment of death defying stunts on YouTube there was motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel. With no movie magic or modern suspension to soften his landings, he was a ...

“Evel Knievel had such a big influence on me growing up,” said Knoxville, as one might’ve guessed from his own history of death-defying stunts. Knoxville calls Evel “a living superhero.” ...

Travis Pastrana succeeds in triplicating three of Evel Knievel's iconic motorcycle jumps, including one that nearly killed the late daredevil ...

Daredevil Evel Knievel has sued Kanye West, the AP reports, taking issue with the "Touch the Sky" music video in which the rapper fancies himself as "Evel Kanyevel" and tries (oh, how they always ...