Submitted by: Bob Sacamano
In the 1988 Calgary winter olympics a country who had never seen a snowfall sent a bobsled team. They did terribly, they crashed, but they were a media sensation, a merchandising wet-dream (I had a Jamaican Bobsled Team sweater myself) and eventually the subject of the Disney Film “Cool Runnings”.
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on: December, 12 2019
Submitted by: Bob Sacamano
In 1980, Marcol’s last season of his nine-year career as the Packers’ placekicker, he led the team to a bizarre overtime win against the Chicago Bears. In a sequence that would quickly secure itself as one of football’s best finishes, he turned possible humiliation into unexpected jubilation and renewed tensions between the Packers and their […]
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on: January, 01 2020
Submitted by: Bob Sacamano
Tonya Harding brought competitive instinct to new highs (or lows) by having a gang of thugs club rival figure skater Nancy Kerrigan during the 1994 Olympic Trials. She ended up plea bargaining to avoid prison and was eventually stripped of her title and banned from figure skating for life (in the Olympics that year Kerrigan […]
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on: January, 01 2020
