Little kids at sporting events are the best. But these kids? They're the very best of the best.
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“Straight up come in here on a horse.”
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Oakland's Desmond Bryant is a hero.
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How has Mr. Harden's glorious chin-piece evolved since he started playing basketball? And what does it say about the evolution of his game?
Reddit user ejwise went through the admirable and important work of creating a James Harden Beard Timeline — i.e., a chronicle of the magnificent face-adornment's path to absolute glory since James "Jim" Harden first gained the ability to sprout hair out of his face. Building off that idea, let's take a walk through history, where we'll discover that there's something SYMBOLIC about the beard.
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Harden was one of the top recruits in the country coming out of high school — Yahoo had him as the country's 11th-ranked player, and he received offers from most of the major schools in the West. Their take? " How much stronger he gets will have a lot to do with how far he takes his game."
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It's glorious.
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Christopher Bosh bringing a new meaning to the term PIVOT. You know, because he pivots in the paint. I'll see myself out.
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What would happen if other NFL players wanted a chance to restart their careers like Deion Sanders did in that NFL commercial? This.
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Deion Sanders
Watch the original commercial here.
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Jerry Rice
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A.J. Hawk
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Dan Marino
I guess Mo Farah should start wearing his medals during interviews.
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The real Frank Dux reveals details of the classic fight movie 25 years after Jean-Claude Van Damme took on the role.
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Twenty-five years ago today, Oscar-winner-featuring* action classic Bloodsport premiered in theaters. Though not Jean-Claude Van Damme's first film (that would be Monaco Forever, in which he played "Gay Karate Man"), Bloodsport certainly was the one that put him and his spaghetti-strap tank tops on the map. Muscles in all the right places and awkward pauses in all the wrong ones, Bloodsport tells the story of Frank Dux, an expert martial artist who travels from the U.S. to Hong Kong for the hardest core of hardcore superfights known as the Kumite.
Two nights ago, sitting on my bathroom floor, ignoring my guests during the first hour of my Oscars party, I spoke with the real Frank Dux over the phone and asked him how he felt about the movie's quarter-century milestone. Now living in Seattle, Dux says he spends his time training Special Forces units, hosting martial arts clinics, and working on his two books — one of which is titled The Complete History of the Ninja. Awesome.
It's impossible to talk about Dux without mentioning the rampant speculation — much of it more than just speculation, as outlined in this Los Angeles Times piece published a few months following the film's release — that the details of his life as portrayed in Bloodsport aren't entirely accurate.
I asked Dux about the article and specifically about the accusation that he not only lied about winning the Kumite but that he also lied about it existing at all. Not surprisingly, he categorically denied the claims of the piece, calling it "paid-for slander" and "a libelous hatchet-job." When I asked him who would pay the Los Angeles Times to write the story, he said it was "complicated" and "nobody knows for sure," but that it had something to do with his strong stance that ninjas aren't trained masters (see No. 5 below) and maybe even involved Oliver North. Look, I could write an entire long read about Dux's wild explanations for each of the story's claims, but today is about celebrating the film Bloodsport, which we all know with 100% certainty did happen and did launch the career of one of the best action stars of all time. So let's focus on that.
Here are 15 new details about Bloodsport as revealed by Dux himself:
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“Breaking into his home through a window, that didn’t happen. That isn’t how we met. That was Sheldon [Lettich, who adapted Frank’s screenplay] taking liberties. I almost went to court with the producers over that. It was so disrespectful.”
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"I became accustomed to great pain and adversity at a very young age because my feet went 180 degrees in the wrong direction. To get them forward, I wore braces that moved them a little bit every day."
This kid's going to have some killer lats.
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I think they're ready for baseball.
Shamarko Thomas has invented a new way of running.
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In a crazy showcase of athleticism, Russell jumps from the free throw line to complete a lay up. He attended the University of San Francisco from 1953 - 1956.
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But would he really play for anyone ?
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Or… “Reasons Twitter Is Super Weird, Part 654.”
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Michelle Jenneke returns.
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Don't tell teams that you've killed someone, particularly if you haven't. For example. Also, try to run quickly.
The NFL Scouting Combine, where players are tested on their speed, strength and agility as well as their ability to answer pointed questions in a high-pressure environment, is currently in full swing. Every year, a few hot prospects come charging in to the event only to commit some sort of horrible physical or mental gaffe. If you're ever considering becoming an NFL prospect, here are some Combine lessons that you should keep in mind.
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I don't know if you've heard, but Manti Te'o — you know, that guy who had a steady but totally uneventful career playing linebacker for Notre Dame — ran a really slow 40-meter dash. How could Te'o, a Heisman runner-up and consensus All-American, disappoint so fully during his workout? Well, he could spend the months before becoming embroiled in a twisted and extravagant fake-girlfriend controversy that then explodes in the most public way possible, creating an enormous distraction and preventing him from dedicating his full attention to fitness and conditioning.
This tip could alternatively be "Don't Let Your Fake Girlfriend Make You Into A National Laughingstock."
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Canada may be a utopian health-care paradise off the ice, but on the ice, it's MADNESS.
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Yes, this actually happened.
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Also, tripping the kid apparently broke up the coach's marriage and hurt his construction business, and the tripping incident took place while he was off antidepressants, according to his lawyer.
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Maybe it's because football's over and baseball hasn't started, but ESPN has been tweeting insane generalities about sports and sports fans.
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... especially if you follow ESPN
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Look the Oscars are happening please love us.
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Wow.
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Former Florida State star Peter Warrick had to answer for being arrested for a scheme where he underpaid for goods at a department store in Florida.
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