Cracked Archive - Sports
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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9 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Ancient Greeks Had The Most Brutal Olympic Combat Sport Imaginable
A dude won ... after he died.
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- By Ethan Tyrrell
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The Surprising Origins Of Those Racist England Soccer Posts
Sports fans are trash worldwide.
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- By Nathan Williams
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Cockroach Upstages Olympic Field Hockey Match
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- By Carly Tennes
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