A Horse That Wears Tank Tops, Smokes Cigs, and Rides a Dirtbike?

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Say what you will about the sport of horse racing—you think it’s boring, it’s cruel to animals, the people at the track smell. 

All are arguments that have some validity to them; however, there is one completely unique attribute that detractors can’t dispute and that no other sport enjoys: They can name their athletes after Bad News Bears characters.  Case in point:

That’s right. A horse that won a $100,000 bonus at Sunland race track was named in honor of the cig-smoking burnout superstar of the Bears and, frankly, that demands respect.

Sure Kelly Leak looked like a girl and wore yellow tanktops around town, but that doesn’t mean that he shouldn’t have a champion thoroughbred named in his honor.

Now if only we can get a horse named Engelberg to take him on, we’ve really got a must-see event on our hands.

Mar 30

1958—The man who would become known as Irwin R. Schyster, Mike Rotundo, is born wearing red suspenders and tie. You’ll be hearing from him in 16 days if you’re not careful.

1964—Everyone’s favorite Corvette-driving blond perm-rocking KEG house-fratting Beverly Hills 90210 staple Ian Ziering (a.k.a. Steve Sanders) is born. Yes, that means today he celebrates his 45th birthday. Jesus.

2003—WWE presents WrestleMania 19 at Safeco Field in Seattle. The event was remembered for producing Stone Cold’s last match of his career—a clean loss to The Rock—as well as a street fight between Vince McMahon and Hulk Hogan (producing that awesome picture above) and Brock Lesnar winning the title from Kurt Angle.

2008—WWE presents WrestleMania 24 from the Citrus Bowl in Orlando. Highlights include the Undertaker winning the championship from Edge and Shawn Michaels ending the career of the Nature Boy Ric Flair. The loss forced a traumatized Patrick Imig to chug all of the alcohol in his water bottle. He hasn’t been the same since.

Tiger Woods / Chong Li

It’s not exactly random since we already mentioned WrestleMania 19, but Brock Lesnar nearly broke his neck right before the end of his title match with Kurt Angle. Not for the squeamish.

Patrick Imig shows the severe impact of Tiger Woods’ first win since last year. It affects the general sports public in many facets.

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