He braved temperatures at the Sauna World Championships that gave one competitor pus-filled sacs the size of a $3 pancake. He chronicled inmates trying to snatch a $500 poker chip from between a 2,000-pound bulls horns Very good day if you own the local splint concession, he writes. And, somewhere along a three-and-a-half-year odyssey that inspired him to shove ferrets down his sweats, 11 ...
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ESPN's Rick Reilly is back in Denver, but he's ready to hit the road with his new book "Sports from Hell: My Search for the World's Dumbest Competition."
IT is hard to imagine that JG Ballard’s cult novel Cocaine Nights is said to have been set inside the millionaire’s playground of Sotogrande. Telling the story of a disgruntled upper middle class community living in a gated enclave hell, – called Estrella del Mar – it couldn’t seem further from the truth. Taking a drive around the 4000 acre private estate – Spain’s largest – there is nothing vaguely downbeat or depressing about the place. The clean, leafy streets, the beautifully kept ma
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Words by: Tyler Ross Photos by: Johnny Milano & Atrossity Once Upon An Idea Came A Hardcore Weekend Long lines and sauna-like temperatures highlighted the fourth annual Sound and Fury Festival . Entering the parking lot overflowing with fans, band vans with trailers and license plates from all over the country, I took a minute in my car to prepare for one hell of a weekend. The El Rodeo Community Center of Oxnard, California presented a vintage roller-rink appearance from the o
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So, by the looks of it, Rick Reilly ®'s new book promises to be a thoroughly dignified affair that won't in any way represent another sad step in a once-great sportswriter's descent into self-parody and studied wackiness. That much is evident. Sports From Hell hits the country's remainder bins in May of next year. Here's what Random House has to say about the book : What is the stupidest sport in the world? Not content to pontificate from the sidelines, Rick Reilly set out on a globa
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