Sports
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
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- By Ryan Menezes
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6 Wildest Moments From The Wildest Marathon Ever Run
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- By Mac Faber
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NASCAR Recruits Athletes ... To Change The Cars' Tires
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- By Ryan Menezes
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A ROUNDUP OF INTERVIEWS, DEEP DIVES, & TRIVIA
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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15 Cannabis Quotes From High-Performance Athletes
Is pot "performance-enhancing?" It depends on the performance...
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- By Dana Larsen
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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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What's The Deal: Simone Biles' Dominance & Struggles
Why Simone Biles' withdrawal isn't worth flipping out over.
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- By Eli Yudin
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Live Pigeon Shooting and Plunging for Distance: 16 Cancelled Olympic Sports
For a little while, Olympic Tug of War was the most divisive war of the 20th century.
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- By Dana Larsen
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The Longest Olympic Marathon Took 54 Years To Finish
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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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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