Take professional wrestling. Put everyone on roller skates. Add a figure-eight track with a 14-foot vertical wall that skaters launched over like ragdolls. Throw in an alligator pit — yes, a real, actual alligator pit — and broadcast the whole thing on network television. That was RollerGames, the beautiful fever dream of late ’80s sports…
On the night of March 28–29, 1984, the Baltimore Colts move to Indianapolis went down as one of the most gut-wrenching betrayals in the history of American sports. While the city slept through a late-winter snowstorm, thirteen Mayflower moving trucks quietly rolled into the Owings Mills training facility, packed up decades of football history, and…
Strength Shoes were the 90s basketball training obsession that promised every gym-rat and blacktop baller a ticket to Dunk City. They were those wild-looking high-tops with a thick rubber platform bolted to the front, forcing you onto your tiptoes 24/7 — and half a generation of basketball kids begged their parents for a pair. Every…
