Ah, nineties-era Chicago Bulls basketball. The lights would go down, the lightning effects would hit the court, bursts of flame would explode into the air, and Your Chicago Bulls would enter the arena ... to this song.
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Michael Jordan's very own personal model of basketball (not baseball) shoes, the Air Jordan, created and marketed by Nike. Jordan himself, says Forbes, has taken home some $1.3 billion dollars for his troubles since the deal was inked in 1984. Here are the shoes he wore during each championship.
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If there is ever an appropriate time for an athlete to take their ball and go home, it's when they're playing the game of life against a deadly pandemic. But when the 1918 flu ravaged humanity, it turned daily life into a-life-or-death struggle.
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Don't call it a comeback. He's been here for years, specifically 53 years. But that's not why you shouldn't call it a comeback. No one knows yet whether Iron Mike Tyson is actually coming back to the ring.
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There was a time when Michael Jordan quit basketball and started playing baseball. Sensing this was not how destiny was to unfold, B.J. Armstrong stepped in.
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Even if your only exposure to boxing comes in the form of a few seconds of idle channel-surfing every now and then, you're probably aware of Mike Tyson and Tyson Fury. But which is faster and more furious? Who would win in a matchup?
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Jackie Robinson's retirement -- like most of his career -- was complicated.
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In 1984, Michael Jordan didn't want to work with Nike. He didn't like Nike. He wouldn't even take a phone call with the company.
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Michael Jordan's mansion in the Highland Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, is a sight to behold. He just wishes someone would buy it.
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One of the most baffling things in the giant, man-shaped box of baffle that is Dennis Rodman is his famous nickname, "The Worm," which is so deeply associated with him that Encyclopedia Britannica notes it. How exactly did a gigantic, muscular athlete end up with a moniker that silly?
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Behold, Scottie Pippen's son, Scottie Pippen Jr., who some have noted bears a marked resemblance to Scottie Pippen.
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Ah, yes, Dennis Rodman! The life of "The Worm" has been filled with enough twists and turns to last for five famous folks' lifetimes -- like his infamous wedding dress tale...
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When Paul Lavesque debuted in the WWE as "Hunter Hearst Helmsley" in 1995, he had a silver spoon in his mouth. An etiquette-obsessed, "snooty" blue blood, he initially finished off opponents with a variant of the Diamond Cutter before adopting his patented "Pedigree."
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Normally, it takes two miracles to qualify as a saint. But New Orleans Saint Tom Dempsey was canonized in the annals of football for a single miracle that put his team two points ahead of the Detroit Lions in 1970.
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With her brightly colored hair, impressive in-ring talent and huge personality, Sasha Banks is undoubtedly one of the trailblazers of WWE's women's division, facing off with other pioneers such as the "anti-diva" Paige. That's why it was so strange that she suddenly took a hiatus.
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Difficult as it is to believe, even Michael Jordan had off games during his professional career. Which one was the worst?
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Describing Jordan and Bird's dynamic as a "relationship" is arguably a bit of a stretch. Back in their NBA heydays, great players on opposing teams didn't get especially chummy with each other or form super teams.
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Cheating happens in professional sports more than we'd like to admit, but with cameras everywhere, it's hard for athletes to get away scot-free. Whether they escaped official punishment or were ejected from the game, the athletes on this list were all caught cheating on live TV.
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Why would the greatest basketball player of all time choose to go play minor league baseball? Was he secretly really good at baseball?
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Michael Jordan likes to gamble. A lot, by most accounts.
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Why did Michael Jordan, after winning three consecutive NBA championships and cementing himself as the greatest basketball player of all time, decide to switch gears so drastically and play AA baseball out of a bus?
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Air Jordans have remained at the forefront of their field, commanding high prices seemingly just by daring to ask the question "what if we put a little cartoon Michael Jordan on these?" How is it possible?
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Was it because they were too awesome? Too capable of propelling a player across the paint like so much Flubber? Why would the NBA -- an organization without a rule saying dogs can't play basketball -- have one about Air Jordans?
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Michael Jordan is usually considered #1 in a couple of areas: The greatest basketball player who ever lived, and the wealthiest athlete, of whatever variety, ever. But he also played baseball! It just wasn't very lucrative.
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Even people who don't follow sports will recognize the name Michael Jordan -- and not just from sharing the screen with Bugs Bunny in 1996's Space Jam, where he helped defeat the Monstars with a dunk from halfcourt.
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Professional wrestling is a profession where somebody can make a fortune, often in only a few years. Looking at some of the values mentioned here, it's easy to understand why so many people try to break into WWE each year. Here are some pro wrestlers who are worth a lot more than you think.
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Lately, it's been pretty difficult to ignore the fact that Vince McMahon is a very, very rich man; and so is his wife, Linda. But at one point, things were so bad they had to declare bankruptcy.
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