A Damn Fine Collection Of Fascinating Sports Photos

Amazing stuff from the world of sports!

Published 9 years ago in Wow

Amazing stuff from the world of sports!

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FSU WR Travis Rudolph saw a young boy sitting by himself so he joined him for lunch. The young boy has autism and usually doesn’t have anyone to sit with

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Joe Louis stands over Max Schmeling in the World Heavyweight Championship boxing match on June 22, 1938. The fight took on a fiercely political tone; Franklin D. Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler had each openly visited his respective countryman before the fight, and a worldwide audience viewed the bout as a symbolic battle between America and Nazi Germany. “It had tremendous political implications in the battle of democracy against fascism,” says Lewis Erenberg, author of “The Greatest Fight of Our Generation, Louis vs. Schmeling.” “And it had tremendous implications about race and racial ideology.” Having repaired the faulty post-jab, left-hand drop that Schmeling had exploited in their first meeting, Louis quickly laid into his stunned opponent with a barrage of quick, close jabs. Clearly outmatched, Schmeling was unable to connect more than two punches in the entire fight, falling to the mat four times. “A towel from Schmeling’s corner fluttered into the ring and referee Arthur Donovan, after first flinging the towel back towards the press section where it caught on the ropes, hanging as limply as the prone form of Schmeling in front of him, finally called a finish to the fight at just 2:04 of the first round,”