If you ever walked the halls of Lafayette High School, chances are you remember the lion. Not a mural or a logo—but a full-sized stuffed lion mascot that’s become somewhat of a local legend. Now, the ...

The Denver Nuggets mascot, Rocky the Mountain Lion, earns more than $600,000 a year. The average salary of a NBA mascot is $60,000.

The lion appears to have two lazy eyes, and it’s deeply upsetting. I didn’t think you could mess up a lion mascot, but Columbia absolutely has.

And school legend holds that a student suggested the Nittany Lion mascot as a rival to Princeton University’s tiger. The Nittany Lions went in to halftime of the Orange Bowl up 10-3 on Notre Dame.

Penn State’s longtime mascot is a common mountain lion, the kind that roamed the mountains near the school’s State College campus until the late 19th century.

The students weren't aware what the final product was going to be. It turned out to be a colorful mural of a lion. Maine Elementary's principal Laura Simonson got the idea when visiting another school ...

The original mascot costume resembled an African lion, and 1921 was the first time a student wore it. After that student's graduation in 1923, the mascot languished for four years.