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Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Bill Simmon's Favorite YouTube Clip

Bill Simmons, aka "The Sports Guy", writer for ESPN Page 2 and ESPN The Magazine, has a single favorite sports moment. It is a footrace.
My favorite YouTube clip runs 572 magical seconds. It celebrates an impossible-to-fathom era of political incorrectness, egotistical celebs, misguided testosterone and the purest unintentional comedy possible … only it finishes with a Hall of Fame sports moment. That's right—I'm referring to the match race between Robert Conrad and Gabe Kaplan on the 1976 debut of Battle of the Network Stars.
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