Cracked Archive - Sports
5 Lessons I Learned As A Pro Wrestling Announcer
A lot needs to go right for a single, successfully recorded wrestling match to happen.
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- By Erik Barnes
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15 We Get NFL Broadcasts Today Thanks To Everyone Hating The Movie 'Heidi'
NBC cut away, and Oakland scored two touchdowns in nine seconds.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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5 Ways Horror In Pro Wrestling Is A Goofy, But Perfect Marriage
Schlocky storylines. Overacting. Crazy costumes. Are we talking horror or pro wrestling?
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- By Erik Barnes
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The (Second-) Richest NBA Player Ever Got Rich Off Burgers, Not Basketball
Off burgers and fajitas ... and millions of bottles of Coke.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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The First Banned Performance-Enhancing Substance? Beer.
And what event did the athlete attempt after drinking? Why, shooting a gun, of course!
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- By Ryan Menezes
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After Last Year's Super Bowl, A Hundred Families Got Free Dogs
Chiefs defensive lineman Derrick Nnadi is like a reverse Cruella de Vil.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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6 Wildest Moments From The Wildest Marathon Ever Run
The most bonkers Olympic event in history was the 1904 marathon in St. Louis.
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- By Mac Faber
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NASCAR Recruits Athletes ... To Change The Cars' Tires
'We shouldn't be rounding up mechanics and telling them to get in shape. We should be rounding up athletes and teaching them how to change tires."
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- By Ryan Menezes
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How A Fake High School Football Team Played On ESPN
This story truly has another bad Adam Sandler movie written all over it.
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- By Zanandi Botes
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6 Times Games Had Ludicrous Stakes Beyond Winning
Sports ultimately don’t matter. It’s not like anyone’s going to lose their livelihood, catastrophically fail as a business, or die, right? Well, actually ...
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- By Chris Corlew
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The Dangerously Keen Football Fan (Turned Out To Be A Conspiracy)
Struck by a firework in the middle of a game? This story was too good to be true.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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Someone Just Showed Up At Miss World One Year, Pretending To Be Miss Uzbekistan
Apparently, there's not really a "system" for checking who's supposed to be there.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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We Used To Have An Ice Rink Made Of Smelly Pig Fat
The world's first artificial rink didn't attract fans for long.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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The Longest Olympic Marathon Took 54 Years To Finish [One Cracked Fact]
Shizo Kanakuri ran the marathon in 1912. At least, he started in 1912 ...
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- By Ryan Menezes
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7 Ways The Olympics Ended Up Being Trash
The Olympics had to go and one-up us, providing even more hypocrisy and unfairness than we predicted.
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- By Chris Corlew
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