Cameron Talbert

Musician

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Original XBOX startup screen (2001)

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You just had to be there

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To mark his 13th anniversary as a solo artist,
KAMIJO has unsealed all 13 concert films.

Members of KAMIJO Secret Society "THE VAMPYRE MASQUERADE" can already watch all thirteen. Unlimited.
24 hours of footage in total, every title in Full HD.
More will be added in time.

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Which Xbox are you choosing?

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NBA Street V3 (2005 Video Game)

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On October 10, 1992, Deion Sanders played in a National League Championship Series game in Pittsburgh.

The next afternoon he started at cornerback in an NFL game in Miami.

That night he was back in Pittsburgh, in a Braves uniform, sixteen minutes before first pitch.

Three games. Two sports. Roughly a thousand miles. Under 24 hours.

Here's the whole run.

Saturday night, October 10. Game 4 of the NLCS at Three Rivers Stadium. Sanders pinch hits and plays the final innings in the outfield. Atlanta wins 6-4 to take a 3-1 series lead.

Immediately after, he gets on a private jet and lands in Florida around 4 in the morning.

He sleeps a few hours.

Sunday, 1 p.m. Falcons at Dolphins. Deion Sanders starts at cornerback against Dan Marino.

And he doesn't coast. He returns two kickoffs for 42 yards. He returns a punt. He catches a pass for nine yards on offense. He's part of the unit holding Marino to 250 yards.

Miami wins 21-17.

Then comes the part nobody talks about.

After that football game, Sanders spent 30 minutes hooked up to TWO intravenous fluid lines, because his body was in a place bodies aren't supposed to go.

Then: limousine to a waiting helicopter. Helicopter to a private jet. Jet to Pittsburgh. Then another helicopter to Three Rivers Stadium.

He arrived in Pittsburgh still dressed for Miami weather. It was 53 degrees.

By some accounts he got there sixteen minutes before Game 5 started.

He put the uniform on and sat in the dugout.

And he never got in.

That's the part the internet always gets wrong. Deion Sanders did NOT play two pro sports on the same day. Nobody in history has. He suited up, but Atlanta lost 7-1 and there was never a spot to use him.

He came that close and the game just didn't give him the opening.

Now the drama around it.

Braves GM John Schuerholz was furious. He believed the agreement was that Sanders would skip football if Atlanta made the playoffs.

Schuerholz: "I thought we had an understanding that this would not happen."

Bobby Cox was more diplomatic: "You have to put yourself in his shoes. You can't blame him for doing this, I guess."

The Falcons weren't thrilled either. They had already docked him $68,000 out of a $750,000 salary earlier that season for showing up late.

He got hammered in the press for taking neither sport seriously.

Twenty five years later he was still annoyed about that: "Both of them were important. Both games were important. You have an obligation. Why wouldn't your obligation be worth it?"

His teammates never had a problem with it. David Justice: "Deion was never a distraction. Deion was one of the fellas. Whenever Deion could make it to the team, we loved having him, and when he couldn't, we knew he was off playing football."

And what Sanders said at the time is the best line of the whole thing:

"This is the sort of thing kids dream about. In the morning, they're Michael Jordan on the basketball court, and in the afternoon, they're Deion."

Postscript.

The Braves won the NLCS anyway and went to the World Series, where Sanders hit .533. He remains the only human being to play in both a Super Bowl and a World Series.

He never did get the same-day double.

But he did three games in a day across two sports and a thousand miles, on two IV bags and a few hours of sleep.

Nobody's touched it since.

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MW4 lets you have a cigar in your mouth until you respawn… is this corny?

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Allen Iverson earned somewhere north of $200 million in his career.

Within a few years of retiring, it was gone. All of it.

But in 2001, Reebok did something almost nobody in the sneaker business has ever done.

They protected him from himself.

Rewind. Iverson goes first overall in the 1996 draft and immediately signs with Reebok. Ten years, $50 million.

Then in 2001 he wins MVP and drags the Sixers to the NBA Finals. He is, at that moment, one of the most influential athletes on the planet. The braids, the headband, the sleeve, the crossover.

Reebok wanted him forever. So they renegotiated into a lifetime deal.

And the structure of that deal is the whole story.

Term one: Reebok pays Allen Iverson $800,000 a year, every year, for the rest of his life. Reportedly with no ongoing promotional obligations attached.

Term two: Reebok sets aside $32 million in a private trust that Iverson cannot access until his 55th birthday.

Twenty nine years in the future at the time they signed it.

Read that again. A company deliberately gave a 26 year old LESS money up front, structured so that a huge chunk of it would be physically unreachable for three decades.

Iverson at the signing: "It shows a lot of commitment, and hopefully I can stand up to my part. I didn't have the greatest past in the world, but they always stood by me and always stood up for me when times were bad."

Then the thing everybody worried about happened.

Iverson has spoken openly about the spending. His own line about that era, describing what he was doing with his money: he was throwing fifty thousand dollars a night around.

Legal battles. A divorce. Bad management. By a couple of years after his last NBA game, the reporting was that the entire fortune was gone.

And the $800,000 a year from Reebok kept arriving anyway.

The trust sat there, untouched, growing, because it was legally impossible for anyone to spend it. Not him. Not anybody around him.

That trust unlocks on June 7, 2030, his 55th birthday. Because of the divorce settlement, reportedly about half goes to his ex-wife Tawanna. He still gets the rest.

Reebok, meanwhile, never walked away. In October 2023 they named Allen Iverson their Vice President of Basketball, working alongside Shaquille O'Neal.

Their former CEO's explanation for why they kept betting on him: he's an iconic personality, and you bring Allen Iverson into a market anywhere in the world and it means something.

There's a version of this story that's about a guy who lost $200 million.

There's a better version where a company looked at a 26 year old at the absolute peak of his fame and quietly decided to make sure he'd still be okay at 55.

They were right. And they made sure it didn't matter.

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Straight outta Hawthorne Christian School in 5th grade.
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What was the best game from the EA Sports BIG era?

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milla jovovich in the resident evil franchise

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The legendary voice behind Batman passed away 4 years ago at 66 years old 🦇😔

For an entire generation, Batman didn’t just have a look. He had Kevin Conroy’s voice.

Beginning with Batman: The Animated Series in 1992, Conroy created a version of Bruce Wayne that would follow the character across decades of animation, films, and video games.

From Mask of the Phantasm and Justice League to Batman Beyond, The New Batman Adventures, Gotham Knight, Flashpoint Paradox, Injustice, and the Arkham games, Conroy became the Batman many fans measured every other interpretation against.

What made his performance work was more than the deep voice. He understood the difference between the man and the symbol. His Bruce Wayne could be warm, vulnerable, and tired, while his Batman carried authority without losing the humanity underneath.

Kevin Conroy passed away in 2022, but more than three decades of performances ensured that his Batman would never belong to just one era.

Actors will continue to wear the cowl. But for millions of fans, when Batman speaks, they still hear Kevin Conroy. 🕯��

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POWERFUL: Former #Commanders running back Alfred Morris continued driving a 1991 Mazda 626 that he bought for just TWO DOLLARS even after becoming an NFL star.

Morris bought the car from his pastor while in college and nicknamed it “Bentley.”

Even after rushing for 1,613 yards as a rookie, Morris refused to replace it with an expensive car. Mazda eventually completely restored “Bentley” for him, and Morris continued driving it because of the memories attached to it.

#NFL money never changed what that $2 car meant to him.