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Throughout his long and accomplished career, Peyton Manning was smart enough to avoid saying things to the media that would rile up his opponents or come back to bite him. Except the one time, in the middle of the 2003 Pro Bowl, he trashed his “idiot kicker” Mike Vanderjagt, because …

You may know about Vince Carter’s incredible performance at the 2000 NBA Slam Dunk Contest, but do you know how crucial that night was to the future of a struggling event? Do you know what was going on with Carter’s Raptors and fellow contest participant Tracy McGrady at the time? …

The XFL Million Dollar Game was so bad that they never played again. Well, the league got cancelled for other reasons, but the point stands. Rarely did it actually resemble football. Anything “good” was thanks to something far worse. And honestly, it’s what the XFL deserved. A poorly thought out, …

The Boston Celtics and Phoenix Suns faced off in the 1976 NBA Finals, and with the game in double overtime the Suns did something so genius that it seemed idiotic. But really, they just knew the rules. They called a timeout they didn’t have, and were assessed with a technical …

It’s February 3rd, 2002. The Louisiana Superdome plays host to Super Bowl 36 where the St. Louis Rams and New England Patriots are tied at 17. With seven seconds left, Adam Vinatieri is lining up from 48-yards out to wrap this up and not give the Rams a chance in …

There have been tons of football games where quarterbacks look like they have never thrown a ball in their life, but when Mark Sanchez and Ryan Lindley squared off in a 2012 game in New Jersey, that blew all of those away. There is no other conclusion to reach from …

There are lots of similarities between the personal arcs of Shaquille O’Neal and Dwight Howard. There are also lots and lots of differences, from their team accomplishments to their styles of play to their personalities. Weirdly, both the ways in which Dwight and Shaq are the same and the ways …

In 1978, the Raiders were losing to the Chargers in the closing seconds. Ken Stabler intentionally fumbled, his teammate intentionally slapped and kicked it further while pretending to attempt to pick it up, and a Raider finally fell on it for a touchdown. The Raiders won, and the NFL was …

When the U.S. faced off against Trinidad & Tobago, they really didn’t have to do much in order to advance to the 2018 World Cup. They had to do something though, and honestly…they didn’t. A win or draw would have sent them on to Russia, and they couldn’t do that. …

Handball is an Olympic sport played by seven players on a court. Musa Kambundu plays left wing for Zambia’s national team and hopes they will qualify for the 2020 games in Tokyo. He joined the country’s military team at age 16 and used his transport money to buy bread for …