Cracked Archive - Sports
5 Dumb Ways People Have Won at Sports
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- By Xavier Jackson
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402 The 5 Most Pathetic Abuses of Power in Sports History
Because professional sports have never shied from choosing money over dignity, it's entirely possible to grease your awkward slide into professional athletics with hundred dollar bills.
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- By Alex Hanton
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- 414
The 5 Ballsiest Ways Fans Have Affected The Outcome of Games
These fans, after paying good money to watch the sporting event, couldn't just sit down and enjoy the athletic showcase they came to see. They had to make it all about them.
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- By Patrick Thomas, Jamie Flexman
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- 412
The 5 Most Horrifying Sports Injuries of All Time
Clearly, these guys are really, truly insane.
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- By Erik Carrera, Samuel Flashner, Cam Kesel
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- 986
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
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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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- 408
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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- 342
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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- 703
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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- 2013
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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- 488
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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- 467
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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- 1940
