Cracked Archive - Sports
The 5 Most Insane Teams in the History of Sports
It turns out that every sport has an 'anything goes' period in its history when insanity was just par for the course.
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- By Evan V. Symon
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498 7 Bizarre Things That Science Says Make You a Better Athlete
When people think about how scientists can help them be better at sports, they're probably thinking about what cocktail of steroids they can take that won't show up on a urine test. The truth is actually way more legal.
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- By John Dubensky, Elorm Kojo Ntumy
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6 Recklessly Extreme Versions of Already Extreme Sports
To what deranged depths will man sink due to his need to be the best at something, even if it's completely pointless and insane, before he says, 'OK, that's enough'?
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- By Ann Z.
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5 Moments in Fake Professional Wrestling That Got Too Real
It turns out that when the performing wrestlers are both huge and insane, one accident can escalate play fighting into the real thing pretty quickly.
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- By David Dudhnath, Jason Iannone, Steve Hanley
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5 Insane True Tales of Wrestlers Refusing to Break Character
For most of the last century, wrestling fans believed every storyline and bit of pageantry as the God's honest truth, and if you made your living as a wrestler, it was your sworn duty to protect the illusion at all costs.
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- By Robin Warder
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5 Things They Don't Want You to Know About the Olympics
The Olympics are all about the love of sport, country and your fellow man. Maybe. Just don't look too closely behind the scenes.
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- By Eric Yosomono
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5 Insane Real Sports They Need to Add to the Olympics
There are plenty of sports out there that could be added to the game to spice them up. And we're talking about real sports here, not the game of flamethrower tag we tried to get them to add last time.
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- By XJ Selman
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5 Creepy Things London Did to Prepare for the Olympics
It's all in the name of anti-terrorism and public safety, of course, but the London 2012 Olympics will be the most sinister sporting event ever held outside of 'Battle Royale.'
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- By Lillian Marx, Max Danvers
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5 Dumb Hobbies You Won't Believe Have World Championships
Little did we realize that these pointless time wasters were, for some, the subject of a years-long pursuit of excellence.
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- By Kier Harris, Russell Puntenney, Isaac Cabe
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The 6 Ballsiest Sports Cheats of All Time
There are cheaters and then then there are the ones who do it with such audacity and creativity that you kind of want to just give them the victory for their effort.
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- By Ryan J., Evan V. Symon
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The 5 Most Annoying Things About Sports (To Non Sports Fans)
When you're not a sports fan, there's a double standard when it comes to ... well, just about everything.
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- By Stephen Cook
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5 Sports Fans Who Ruined Sports
Every obnoxious fan at a sporting event has a forefather. These are those people.
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- By Evan V. Symon
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The 5 Acceptable Reasons to Go Bowling
Who goes bowling, and for God's sake why?
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- By Brenna Crotty
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6 Extreme Sports You Won't Believe Anyone Survives
You have to kind of feel sorry for 'extreme sport' practitioners. For one thing, you can't even say the name of their sport without an eye roll and a smirk, and for another, the '90s are over.
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- By Pauli Poisuo
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Why You've Never Heard Of The Greatest Sport Ever Invented
Give us the roughest, toughest athlete you can think of. He would be soiling himself if he had to play this game.
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- By Rob Sylvester
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