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Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about boxing and whether they are true or false. BOXING URBAN LEGEND: Oscar De la Hoya’s cornerman told him to “run away” from Felix Trinidad in a fight De la Hoya would go on to lose. The September 18, 1999 boxing match between […]

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Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about baseball and whether they are true or false. Click here to view an archive of the baseball urban legends featured so far. BASEBALL URBAN LEGEND: A baseball player who went missing for a couple of days claimed to have been kidnapped by […]

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Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about baseball and whether they are true or false. Click here to view an archive of the baseball urban legends featured so far. BASEBALL URBAN LEGEND: When Rickey Henderson was introduced to his new Seattle Mariner teammate John Olerud, he told Olerud that […]

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Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about auto racing and whether they are true or false. Click here to view an archive of the hockey urban legends featured so far. AUTO RACING URBAN LEGEND: A monkey once knocked a driver from second to third place in a race. Tim […]

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Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about auto racing and whether they are true or false. Click here to view an archive of the hockey urban legends featured so far. AUTO RACING URBAN LEGEND: Joe Weatherly once forced a race to change the name of the event before he […]

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Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about auto racing and whether they are true or false. Click here to view an archive of the hockey urban legends featured so far. AUTO RACING URBAN LEGEND: Race car drivers perspire so much inside the car during a race that they have […]