SPORTS LEGEND: Bull riders get bulls to buck by pulling on straps attached to the bull’s testicles.

SPORTS LEGEND: Kurt Warner refused to appear on the cover of an issue of Sports Illustrated about the supposed “Sports Illustrated Cover Jinx.”

SPORTS LEGEND: In back-to-back years, two separate Canadian football teams drafted dead players.

SPORTS LEGEND: When he was 25, Pete Maravich correctly identified when he would retire and when he would die.

SPORTS LEGEND: Two-time America’s Cup winner Peter Blake was killed by pirates

SPORTS LEGEND: A female polo player pretended to be a man for twenty years so as to play professional polo.

SPORTS LEGEND: The very first grand slam hit in the major leagues was a two-out, bottom of the ninth, trailing by three, game-winner.

SPORTS LEGEND: Leo Durocher said “Nice guys finish last.”

With the release in two weeks of my new book, Was Superman a Spy? and Other Comic Book Legends Revealed (see the sidebar to pre-order a copy!), I thought it would be neat to have a site here (and at Entertainment Legends Revealed) where I can discuss other legends revealed! The way this will work [...]