I first saw Evel Knievel on ABC’s Wide World of Sports, which replayed his 1975 attempt to jump 13 double-decker ... We’d already learned his biggest lesson: It’s OK to crash.

All I wanted was the new Evel Knievel Stunt ... Evel’s unsuccessful jumps and had determined that if he’d had softer places ...

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(CNN)-- Evel Knievel ... his stunts perennial ratings-grabbers. Knievel's most famous stunt was probably an attempt to jump the quarter-mile wide Snake River Canyon in 1974 on his rocket-powered ...

William Monahan, who penned DiCaprio's 'The Departed,' is writing the motorcycle daredevil's screen story for Paramount.

Stuntman Robbie Knievel ... often doing dramatic jumps on his motorcycle. In 1989, he completed a stunt that was once attempted by his father. According to the AP, Evel was unable to complete ...

that Evel Knievel’s daredevil career began with a 20-foot jump over a crate of snakes and two roped mountain lions; that Evel Knievel was thrown over his handlebars onto the pavement after ...