Whatever Happened To Bodybuilder Charles Atlas?
Who was Charles Atlas? An actual man, or merely the creation of an advertising firm? The answer, it turns out, is "both."
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There's A Lot You Don't Know About George Foreman's Life
A Plan B is not such a bad thing. George Foreman, born in 1949 in Marshall, Texas, embraced that principle.
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Nicolas Anelka: The Controversial Truth About The Sports Legend
Netflix's new documentary, Anelka: Misunderstood, promotes itself as an in-depth documentary which explores French footballer Nicolas Anelka's "controversial legacy," according to the official description. That's certainly one way to put it.
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The Surprising Origin Of The T-Shirt Cannon
The T-shirt cannon has a much deeper history than you might imagine.
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Why Ronda Rousey Can't Stand Steven Seagal
When you do a simple Google search — not "I Heart Steven Seagal," but maybe something close — you're more likely to come up with hot lists of people who don't like the nineties action hero with a penchant for "kill" and "justice" in his movie titles.
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The Truth About Eddie Vedder And Dennis Rodman's Friendship
At first glance, you might not expect Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder to befriend former Bull's player Dennis Rodman. Although the two are a seemingly odd pair, they are actually great friends in real life.
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The Mysterious Death Of Mt. Everest Explorer George Mallory
"He saw two black dots he assumed to be Mallory and Irvine near one of the final ridges before the peak before disappearing into the clouds again. It was the last time both of them were seen alive..."
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Mark McGwire Is Worth A Lot More Than You Think
Ah, Mark McGwire! The second most famous Big Mac in history is one of the greats of baseball, even though his legendary player career is somewhat tainted because of his use of performance-enhancing drugs.
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The Crazy Real-Life Story Of Secretariat
In the decades since Secretariat won the Triple crown, many horses have tried to match his performance. However, none of them did it as spectacularly as he did.
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What You Need To Know About Bubba Wallace
A pervasive image of NASCAR is a sea of Confederate flags. So when the organization behind NASCAR announced on June 10, 2020 that it will from henceforth ban Confederate flags from its races people grew interested, not least in the driver who called for the ban: Bubba Wallace.
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The Tragic Real-Life Story Of Scottie Pippen
Scottie Pippen repeatedly rose to basketball's highest peak, but he had a very rough life. Here's the tragic story of Scottie Pippen.
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Why Buddy Murphy Might Be The Next WWE Star
He comes from the land down under, does Buddy Murphy. The Australian native, born Matthew Adams, originally wrestled in his home country under the name Matt Silva. Now he's climbing the ranks in the WWE.
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The Truth About Mike Tyson's Obsession With Pigeons
Sappy love songs say that love gives you wings, but for Mike Tyson it's the exact opposite. Wings -- and the pigeon bodies they're attached to, are what give Tyson love.
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The Truth About 50 Cent's Boxing Career
With all of 50 Cent's success, it might be surprising to know that his original ambition wasn't on the stage: It was in the boxing ring.
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Sammy Sosa Is Worth A Lot More Than You Think
These days, Sammy Sosa might not look anything like he used to during his active playing career, but the baseball great's considerable achievements remain etched in the annals of the sport. Does his net worth reflect that success?
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The History Of NASCAR Explained
For longer than most of us have been alive, the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (or NASCAR, to its friends) has been rattling the ground beneath Daytona. But how did it get its start?
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The Truth About Donnie Yen's Mother
Donnie Yen's mother, Bow-sim Mark, is kind of a big deal — not just as an acclaimed martial artist but also as a business woman who made it big at a time when the glass ceiling was a whole lot thicker than it is today.
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The Real Reason Bruce Lee Had His Armpit Sweat Glands Removed
No doubt it was a mixture of dedication to physical perfection and wanting to make successful movies that drove supreme martial artist Bruce Lee to the lengths he went to.
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How Bruce Lee And Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Became Friends
"Bruce Lee was my friend and teacher," Kareem Abdul Jabbar states simply, yet powerfully. The basketball superstar had started studying martial arts growing up in New York, and when he was a student at UCLA sought to continue that growth.
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Why The 1972 U.S. Men's Basketball Team Refused Their Olympic Medals
At the 1972 Munich Games, a group of U.S. basketball players set out to make their hoop dreams come true, but this was no Olympic Dream Team. There was no Michael Jordan to make gravity look like an inconvenience, no "Mailman" like Karl Malone to deliver in the post, no Larry Bird or Magic Johnson.
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The Truth About The Richest Athlete In History
In terms of rich athletes, Michael Jordan is always the top of any list. But his fortune pales in comparison to a chariot racer from around the Second Century CE, named Diocles.
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The Surprising Truth Of The Goodyear Blimp
Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's -- a blimp. Are you trying to say Superman put on weight? Of course not. That would be mean. Plus, you're probably talking about spotting an airship, which could be a blimp, a zeppelin, or a dirigible.
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The Real Reason Bon Jovi Won't Ever Play The Super Bowl Halftime Show
You'll never find Jon Bon Jovi rocking the Super Bowl. There is no chance, no prayer to live on. What gives?
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How Bruce Lee's Game Of Death Is Changing The WWE
Why would a legendary (and legendarily passed away) martial artist like Lee have anything to do with Vince McMahon's pro wrestling juggernaut? It's an excellent question, but it turns out there is a connection.
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The Truth About Randy Savage's Baseball Career
Macho Man Randy Savage was a two-time all-star catcher in high school, so it made perfect sense that when he graduated he would take a swing at a baseball career. Here's how that went.
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WCW's Failed KISS-Themed Wrestlers Were More Expensive Than You Think
It was 1999, and World Championship Wrestling was in a bad way. World Championship Wrestling needed to drop costs and do something fresh. But first, old habits dying hard and all, they were going to spend a near-sacrilegious amount of money on 25-year-old glam rock played by 50 -year-old men.
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The Real Reason Karl Malone Wasn't In The Last Dance
Mailmen deliver in any condition, day or night -- except, of course, on Sundays. That observation led to an inspired moment of trash which Scottie Pippen delivered to "Mailman" Karl Malone of the Utah Jazz during Game 1 of the 1997 NBA Finals.
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