October 16, 1994
49ers corner Deion Sanders returns to "his house" — the Georgia Dome — to face his former team, the Atlanta Falcons.
After throwing hands with former teammate Andre Rison, Deion returns an interception 93 yards for a touchdown to punctuate a 42-3 Niners rout.
October 11, 1981
"The Fred Dean Effect"
The surprising 49ers slaughter the favored Cowboys at Candlestick, 45-14 — handing Dallas its worst loss in eleven years.
Just days prior to the contest, San Francisco had acquired future Hall of Fame defensive end Fred Dean through a trade with the Chargers.
Fred had practiced with the Niners only twice prior to playing this game.
The 49ers forge a quick 24-0 lead. However, the real story of this game is Dean.
San Francisco had a decent 3-2 record entering the day. But after the acquisition of Fred Dean, who had joined forces with a now-healthy Dwaine Board on the D-line — and paired with the 49ers' talented, rookie-laden secondary, the team would go on to win 13 of its next 14 games en route to the franchise's first Super Bowl championship.
Dean would ultimately take home the UPI NFC Defensive Player of the Year award in 1981, and his play would be a monumental catalyst in the Niners' rise to a dynasty as the "Team of the Decade" of the 1980s.
Video includes:
• Rare CBS Sports' network feed broadcast footage of:
· Open and pregame with Pat Summerall and John Madden
· Pat and John's "hot-mic" comments during the end of the first quarter network commercial break
· Fred Dean's dominant three-play sequence late in the first half
• NFL Films footage featuring hilarious accounts from Randy Cross and Ronnie Lott about the game and about Dean🚬
This may be the most mad I’ve ever been watching the football team play
You cannot allow this to continue any longer. The university NEEDS to do something
Professional poker player Phil Ivey won $9.6 million at the Borgata. The casino paid him, then sued to get it back. At London’s Crockfords, he won another £7.7 million. They refused to pay.
In the video below, Ivey says his job is to play the game, find a weakness in the casino and use it to win. He calls the casino his opponent and points out that it spends millions of dollars protecting its games.
He wanted a specific brand of cards, a Cantonese-speaking dealer and the same decks reused. The casinos agreed. His playing partner, Cheung Yin Sun, asked the dealer to rotate certain cards, presenting it as a matter of luck.
The cards had tiny differences along their backs. Once high-value cards faced one way and the others faced the opposite way, those differences helped identify what was coming next.
Ivey never marked the cards. The dealer handled them. But the casino didn’t understand what those requests were doing to the odds.
He called it an advantage. The casinos called it cheating. In 2017, the UK Supreme Court ruled against him: persuading the dealer to arrange the cards crossed the line.
The casino had approved his requests while expecting to win. Ivey knew something about its own cards that it didn’t.
Was he cheating, or should a casino know its own game before accepting someone’s money?
Rare footage of Ice Cube & DMX performing the “We Be Clubbin’” (Clark Kent Remix) live on the late night talk show “Vibe” ran by Quincy Jones in 1998
This was when Ice Cube was already a solidified legend in Hip-Hop & DMX was in the beginning of his prime run.
RARE & UNRELEASED Tupac Shakur interview on a Swedish Radio in 1994, a few days before he was shot & robbed in Quad Studios & found Guilty in his case against Ayanna Jackson. He explains all of the turmoil & stress in his life in this clip.
One for the Pac heads 👀🔥 The rarely seen beach version of 2Pac’s “Toss It Up” has circulated among fans for years, but was never the main officially released video. Completely different vibe from the darker garage version most people know - and Aaron Hall actually appears in this one too. 🎬🌊🔥
RARE & ORIGINAL version of “Hit Em Up” that was recorded on October 31st, 1995. This was scrapped due to the fact the lyrics wasn’t as strong as 2pac wanted them to be.
He re-recorded the song in April 1996 & released it on June 4th, 1996 on the B-Side of “How Do U Want It”
How Do You Want It - 2Pac (Ft. K-Ci & JoJo)
Performers: K-Ci, JoJo, 2Pac, & Dalvin from Jodeci
Date: July 4th, 1996
Venue: House of Blues, Los Angeles
30 years later and this MTV News coverage still hits different.
“Tupac Shakur has died. He was 25.”
No Social Media, No phones blowing up. Just MTV News covering the death of 2Pac.