As late as the 1980s boxing was one of the most popular sports in America. In a single generation, due to the drying up of youth participation, corruption, and a simple decay of interest, boxing became a shell of its former self. As the National Football League starts down the same road of self-destruction, which…
Author: Fred Hunt
In an era of digital downloads and short attention spans there’s something to be said for an artist who can hold a fan’s attention for prolonged periods of time. In addition, there’s the handicap of an entity like iTunes not selling 10+ minute songs individually, only as part of an album block. There’s a big…
The old rock ‘n’ roll cliché is to live fast and die young. But these rockers flipped the script, died, and then went on to release album after album, even after some of their bandmates passed away. 10. Aaron Lazar Just when the Giraffes were about to break out from the underground in 2005, frontman…
Don’t worry Mom and Dad, we aren’t actually going to use the granddaddy of all curse words. You know the one — it’s so course and objectionable that using it twice in a movie gets you slapped with an R-rating. Use it in your music and you get the dreaded Parental Warning advisory label. And…
Internet radio is growing increasingly popular, but with seemingly a million different stations out there it’s difficult to know where to even begin. TopTenz asked one of our writers, Fred Hunt, to attempt to untangle the mess of options and find 10 memorable choices. This is the result of his musical adventure. Nearly every major…
No matter what you think of the 1984 Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, or the policies of the American government at the time, there was never a concern of a foreign entity rowing down the St. Lawrence River and occupying the land of Upstate New York. But history has taught us that Olympic Venues…
The Catholic Church traces its lineage all the way back to the first leader of the church after Jesus Christ was crucified, Saint Peter. In the 2000 years since, the church has grown from a dozen hardcore followers to a flock of over 1.5 billion people. Times have changed over the past 2 millennium and…
As the newspaper industry dies a slow, painful death, we should take time to celebrate the part of the paper that can’t quite be replaced by the Internet – the comic strip. Yes, you can go to gocomics.com or a few other comic strip sites, but the days of spreading the newspaper out on the…
Arguably the most versatile artist of his generation hasn’t even got a sniff of the Rock Hall. Why? Bunch of long haired, heroin addicts who think too highly of themselves don’t have a sense of humor. Over the course of his career, Weird Al Yankovic has released over a dozen albums, nearly all of which…
Tragically, middle age has come and roosted on my front porch. Can’t drink milk, for lactose intolerance has crippled my digestive system and I can’t run because fatness has strained my once athletic legs. Time on the weekends is used to mow the lawn and to fix the household appliances. And when the precious time…
If you had to pick a city to bestow the title Serial Killer capital of America onto, you’d probably nominate Detroit, or maybe Miami. Well, Cleveland, Ohio has something to say about that. Over the years, they’ve racked up a impressive number of mass murderers that might well trump every other city in the nation. And none of them were motivated by LeBron leaving.
Who amongst us hasn’t made a sock puppet when we were kids? Usually the urge to desecrate our socks ends around the age of 10, but some people turn their socks into, well, celebrities. If my tone seems to skew a bit toward jealousy, it’s because each one of these creations is more popular than…
When naming a band, some people take the easy way out, naming it after themselves or a combination of influences. But others, they go into the depths of the medical encyclopedia in order to find the rarest and most ominous diseases known to man. Unfortunately, obscure diseases usually lead to obscure musical acts. 10. Cataract…
Most of us go through life not knowing who we are, or what we want to do, until at least a few decades in. Well go through many false starts, and travel through many dead-end paths, until we find the one that’s truly right for us. Many companies are the same way. Oftentimes, the most successful…
It’s amazing the number of professional athletes, who are loved and adored by millions, that have been accused of committing the ultimate crime. Some have been guilty, some have not. All, unfortunately, are known more for actions that resulted in the loss of life, than for anything they ever did with a ball. 10. Mike…
Not all pirates are the romanticized high-seas pillagers of yesteryear. Nor are they sports teams from Pittsburgh or Tampa Bay. There are plenty of people on the outside of the system looking in, trying to circumvent the laws of the day, that you might not consider to be prates, but they very much are. 10.…
Unbeknownst to most, it takes 3 years of qualifying to make the World Cup of soccer. 32 out of 209 nations that participate in the arduous journey make it to the month-long finals. The hard work is worth it though, as the champions are etched in stone and glorified across the ages. The teams at the…
When you think of maps, you don’t usually think of them as fluid objects. However, since the fall of the Berlin Wall, it seems all kinds of mergers and separations have been cluttering up atlases on a near-yearly basis. And that doesn’t include all of the wars and disputed territories. But this article is specific to…
Throughout the history of mankind, many men (and women) have claimed to be the flesh and blood incarnation of God. As time has worn on, the general populace has grown savvy to such outlandish claims, but not everyone. Even with the onset of cutting edge technology to help the population sort through the allegations of…
Every couple of years, some Christian group approaches my hometown school district and asks them to change the logo of the school from the Blue Devil to something, well, less Satanic. Don’t people have more important things to worry about? Apparently not, because it seems that new college presidents are always talking about changing team…
Gunplay* is familiar imagery in rock music. Sadly, it has also been the demise of many a great musician. Some of the songs on this list were mired in controversy when they were released, but are now radio staples. Sometimes, the only difference between graffiti and art is time. All of the songs listed below were #1 hits…
The progression of becoming a Saint is almost as long and complicated as filling out a tax form with multiple attachments. There is a process called canonization, in which the church (usually Catholic, but not always) considers the life and death, of a person who has given themselves up to God. Canonization usually takes decades, sometimes centuries,…
In business, there is a risk vs. reward model that states that the bigger the risk, the bigger the payout, or inversely, the bigger the bust. But sometimes, the risk is so great, the payout is either unattainable or not worth the investment. With that being said, this is the list of the Top 10…
Some athletes are blessed with amazing speed, some are blessed with amazing skills, and some are blessed with an amazing work ethic. This list, though, celebrates those athletes who excelled largely because they were BIGGER (and sometimes stronger) than the competition. 10. Danny Almonte In 2001, the Little League World Series was abuzz about a…