Hollywood Mitchell

The greatest franchise QB of ALL TIME, Brother. When your a Detroit Lion, your a Detroit Lion 4-Life. (Disclaimer - views expressed are not those of #19)

[College Sports Only @CSOonX]

This Steve Spurrier quote continues to age like a fine wine: 🍷

[tribal chief ☝🏻🩸 @luireigns]

Scott Hall walking out in ECW to Ready or Not with zero warning.

The second that crowd realized who it was, the place just died.

Coldest surprise appearance of all time.

[Austin @MrAustinPredict]

🚨 JUST IN: Extensive damage coming out of Rochester Hills, near Adams and Tienken, as today's earlier storms tilted MASSIVE Power Lines.

[On This Day in WWE @OTD_in_WWE]

#OnThisDayInWWE 30 years ago on Nitro:

The Giant is the Fifth Man!

Bischoff can't believe it!

(Though looking back, it should have been Meng in the nWo - would have been WCW RIP, Pal)

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

Doorbell camera captures dramatic moments when a New York man is struck by lightning

[La Sotizerie @LaSotizerie]

Envie de chialer tellement c'est beau!#Masterclass

[Book Pro Wrestlers @BookProWrestler]

In January 1993, somebody at Nintendo made one of the strangest — and in hindsight, greatest — casting decisions imaginable: hire Terry Funk and Paul E. Dangerously to host a Nintendo video game competition.

The two wrestling personalities appeared at Nintendo’s Battle of Champions II during the Winter Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, standing inside a small wrestling ring surrounded by televisions, cameras, kids and Nintendo equipment.

And the surviving footage is a wonderful little time capsule.

This wasn’t the polished Paul Heyman presentation we’ve become accustomed to seeing decades later. This was Paul E. Dangerously, fresh off his run in WCW, microphone in hand and sounding unmistakably like a fast-talking New Yorker who had somehow been dropped into the middle of a Nintendo convention.

At one point, Heyman has the responsibility of explaining F-Zero to the crowd. Then “Super Mare-ee-eoh.”

Hearing Paul E. describe a futuristic Super Nintendo racing game — in that unmistakable accent and cadence — while Terry Funk stands nearby is one of those combinations of wrestling and pop culture that sounds made up until you actually see it.

And Funk wasn’t exactly toned down for the occasion, either.

When it came time to introduce the competitors, Terry treated a Nintendo contest with the kind of enthusiasm you’d expect from someone introducing a wrestling main event. Contemporary accounts of the rediscovered footage even noted Funk slipping into his own version of a Howard Finkel-style introduction.

Look at where these two men were in 1993.

Heyman was between major chapters of his career. His WCW run was over, and the transformation of Eastern Championship Wrestling into the ECW that would change professional wrestling was still ahead of him.

Terry Funk, meanwhile, had already been wrestling for nearly three decades — a former NWA World Heavyweight Champion who had worked everywhere from Texas to Japan and was about to become an enormously important figure in that same ECW revolution.

Before long, Paul Heyman and Terry Funk would be remembered as two of the central figures in one of wrestling’s most influential promotions.

But for this particular afternoon in Las Vegas?

Paul E. was explaining F-Zero.

Terry Funk was introducing kids playing Nintendo.

And somewhere, someone apparently decided these were exactly the two men for the job.

Wrestling history has plenty of famous moments we’ve watched a thousand times.
Sometimes the most enjoyable pieces are the ones almost nobody remembers.

Terry Funk and Paul Heyman hosting a Nintendo competition in Las Vegas in 1993 certainly qualifies.

— Steve Stasiak
Book Pro Wrestlers

[James Eshelman @jameseshelman]

Not my video but funny af.

[TopShagger @Plentyshit]

Whoever put the music to this is going to hell 🔥👿

[The HuttDogg 🌭 @NoPainNoLane48]

About time @EASPORTSNHL released a game worth playing

[chud bastard @chudbastard]

He’s a sinister pedophile oligarch but this was tuff I can’t lie

[Pistons Talk @Pistons__Talk]

A few years ago Rasheed Wallace explains why he’s not on @NBA2K

“They gotta cut the check, you’re not gonna offer me $10,000 for shit you’re making minimum 3-4months $500 million dollars on CTC”

Via @Underdog

[Wrestling Magazine @WrestleMagazine]

ESPN News after the Malice in the Palace

[Wrestling Pics & Clips @WrestleClips]

That time Big Show mimicked Hulk Hogan in a match against Kurt Angle 😂

[Downtown Deuce @DowntownDeuce]

Rasheed Wallace Says Lindsey Hunter Checked Club Security After Winning The Championship 🔵🔴 #DetroitBasketball

-via @BovadaOfficial

[TodayInSports @TodayInSportsCo]

Baseball is for the family.

[betraidx @betraidx]

A broke Italian gambler in 1560 wrote a short manual on how to win at dice. Nobody in finance read it for four hundred years.

The nine-trillion-dollar insurance industry runs on his equation.

His name was Girolamo Cardano. The book was called Liber de Ludo Aleae. He scribbled it in Milan to settle a card debt. Every dollar of premium ever collected on Earth is a footnote to that scribble.

Nobody connected the dots until 1996. A ninety-year-old man in New York wrote a book called Against the Gods and traced every modern risk model back to Cardano's manual. Wall Street called him the historian of risk.

His name was Peter Bernstein. In 2008 a small production company filmed him for thirteen minutes. He walked through the entire five-hundred-year arc. Cardano to Pascal to Fermat to Black-Scholes.

Then he stopped and said the industry had built glass towers on the back of an idea a broke gambler scribbled to shave the house edge.

He died the following summer. Age ninety.

There are only four ways to make money. Labor. Capital. Arbitrage. Insurance. Insurance is the oldest and the least visible. Every actuary on Earth still prices catastrophe risk with Cardano's framework.

The video is thirteen minutes long. Free on YouTube. Twenty-nine thousand people have watched it.

[BaseballHistoryNut @nut_history]

Six years ago today we had the greatest “apology” in sports broadcasting history.

Cannot believe this happened

Nick Castellanos hits a home run while Thom Brennaman tries to apologize for using a homophobic slur