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This Allen Iverson story reads like the setup to a great joke: A.I. and D-Wade walk into a casino . . .

Eliot J. SchechterYou've heard it 1,000 times before: A rabbi, a horse, and a fireman walk into a bar. Or was it a priest and Bigfoot? Was it even a bar? Honestly we've lost track. But one thing we won't forget is this iconic Allen Iverson story that Dwayne Wade told The Lefkoe Show this weekend. It begins with a very similar setup: A.I. and D-Wade walk into a casino . . .
What happens next is the stuff of legend.
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Here's what D-Wade had to stay about the chance encounter in a Puerto Rico casino when he was just a rookie:
Eddie Jones was like “Yo, young fella, come with me.” Eddie Jones was
my veteran at the time. So I go with Eddie Jones and we got to one of
tables Allen Iverson is sitting at. He knew Allen Iverson was one of
my favorite players, so he wanted to introduce me . . . Iverson is
gambling and I'm standing right there like this [leans in, stares at
the camera] the whole time and he threw m..

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Did you know: The longest playoff in golf history went an exhausting 72 holes for the U.S. Open

Bettmann(Original Caption) 7/9/1931-Greenwich, CT- Billy Burke, the National Open golf champion, illustrates how he plays a high ball from a sand trap. It was a couple such shots that enabled Billy to emerge the victor in the recent tournament held in toledo. Burke is pro at the Round Hill club where this picture was made.The Coronavirus pandemic has hit a giant pause button on fans being able to watch golf on TV, and in some cases, even kept people off courses. But while we hunker down and hope for a speedy return to normalcy, we can also use this time as an opportunity to learn more about the game we love. Here’s our latest installment of “Did you know?”
In 2018 the USGA announced its new playoff format, a two-hole aggregate setup, to break ties for the U.S. Open. For Billy Burke and George Von Elm, that decision came some 87 years too late. Which, in hindsight, might be good for the duo’s legacy. That's because the pair battled in the longest playoff in history—72 holes after c..

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Hard pass on this video of a skydiver pulling his friend’s chute after he was knocked out mid-jump

These days an adrenaline rush constitutes going to the store grocery. You're now a risk taker if you leave the house without a bomb disposal suit. Fighting soccer moms for toilet paper is part of X Games now. There was a time, however, when humans were able to do incredible (and incredibly dumb) things at will. We even jumped OUT OF airplanes for fun. I know, I know. Sounds crazy but it's true. Just ask Ben Pigeon, an avid skydiver who posted this 2014 video of himself being knocked out at 10,000 feet only to be rescued by the quick thinking of his friend last week. If you want to remember just how nuts humans once were, this is a pretty good place to start.
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Thinking about walking within five feet of someone today just for the thrill? Well, hopefully this scratches that itch. Poor Pigeon is the only guy who needs to be putting his life on the line today, getting clobbered by a fellow skydiver's f..

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Video game sports are actually making everything worse

Layne Murdoch Jr.If you missed it, NASCAR drivers are doing some kind of video game thing where they race each other virtually and people can watch on actual television. This is not a joke—these are the times we live in. I have friends who have gambled on this, and that's some good degeneracy, but oh my God, what have we become? There's an article on ESPN's front page about the results, and the only good thing about that is the detail that a driver named Bubba Wallace “rage quit” in the middle of a competition. (There's something about the name Bubba…if there was a golf equivalent of this, I'm sure Bubba Watson would be the first to rage quit.) William Byron won, but have we really stooped so low that this is considered remotely interesting?
The NBA's doing it too, with a 2K Live tournament featuring Kevin Durant, and it's airing live on ESPN and ESPN2. Why? If I were ever going to watch eSports—and I'm not—I would want to watch the best video ..

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