“When there is an opportunity, I do not hit. It hits all by itself.” July 26, 1973. It went down as a landmark day for cinephiles, a day that Bruce Lee fans worldwide received his magnum opus. That was the ...

“Syracuse, New York is like Hawaii for eight months of the year. The other four months, I don’t care about the weather because we’re playing basketball.” –Coach Jim Boeheim A storied institution where presidents, famous authors, revered sportscasters, and Hall ...

“I got soul and I’m super bad.” That old expression to put your “heart and soul” into what you’re doing was might as well have been founded on the Godfather of Soul himself, James Brown. When Mr. Dynamite took the ...

“We want freedom by any means necessary. We want justice by any means necessary. We want equality by any means necessary.” These words unified people at a tumultuous juncture in human history. They were a rallying cry for those without ...

“You don’t think. It’s all instinct, if you stop to think, you’re gone.” The roots of fight run directly through Sugar Ray Robinson, the man whom Muhammad Ali called “the king, the master, my idol.” He held the welterweight title ...

“I am the cream of the crop!” Randy “Macho Man” Savage” in the house! The legend of the squared circle. The transformative star who compelled the world to flex and kiss those pythons as they do. Macho Man was all ...

“He’s the fastest thing I’ve ever seen.” –Wilbur Johns, coach of UCLA basketball team from 1939-1948, on the great Jackie Robinson Long before he changed baseball by breaking the color barrier. Long before he became a symbol of courage and ...

UCLA — the letters alone are synonymous with greatness. A university where MacArthur Fellows and Nobel Laureates have walked the campus, and giants in the sports world have cast shadows down through the generations. Perhaps none bigger than the four-sport ...

Andre the Giant was big in Japan. He was called the “Eighth Wonder of the World.” He stepped over the top rope when he entered the squared circle, and — at 7-foot-4, weighing more than 500 pounds — dwarfed any ...

“Japanese audiences are great audiences, but they’re just really hard to win over. You really have to know how to pull their strings.” Imagine the scene. The year was 1982. The site — the Nakajima Athletic Club in Sapporo City, ...

“Shine on, you crazy diamond…” For over five decades, they’ve lived up to impossible billing. Visionary. Psychedelic. Experimental. Transcendent. Genius. Pink Floyd carried rock music into the darker corners of the human psyche and set the bar for generations of ...

“I’m gonna be a rock & roll singer! Gonna be a rock & roll star!” When AC/DC hit Japan in 1981, the world wasn’t ready. The opening licks of “Hells Bells” rocked the Nihon Seinenkan in Tokyo for two nights ...