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...yard field goal in five inches of snow to send a playoff game into overtime, ending Super Bowl XXXVI two weeks later with 48-yard game-winner as time expired - he?s not jumping over cars and rivers on a rocket-powered motorcycle, but like his third cousin, Evel Knievel, Adam Vinatieri doesn?t melt under fire. Despite a sub-par regular season, when he converted a career-low 73.5% of his field goal tries, Vinatieri has kept a clutch foot in the playoffs. He hit a 46-yard knuckleball in the Arctic cold to give the Pats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Patriots: Adam Vinatieri, Daredevil | 1/30/2004 | See Source »

...Winners EVEL KNIEVEL Elderly daredevil to defy death again. Instead of jumping buses, he'll strap rockets to his walker and try to jump the buffet line at Sizzler GARY KASPAROV Chess master beats 15-year-old, wins Moscow Grand Prix. Great, but was it necessary to spike the king and do the Icky Shuffle on the board? BRUCE ARENA U.S. coach's team beats Portugal. 280 million Americans are still trying to figure out why they don't just pick up the ball and run with it Losers NICHOLAS TSE Hunky Canto-pop star charged with perverting justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 6/10/2002 | See Source »

Dominic Sera, like many Bruckheimer directors a graduate of TV spots, gives the dialogue scenes a kinetic pizazz. But they didn't make this movie for the characters; they did it for the cars--for a Knievel-like stunt that sends the Shelby over a dozen or so autos on a bridge, and for the joy of showing young people stealing cars, then driving them recklessly around a crowded city. Why don't these kids do something less dangerous, like heroin? At least then they'd kill only themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Honk If You Love Jerry | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

...been The Dating Game. But add a ring, some vows and a dress that looks like a doily, and newsmagazines from competing networks will cover your TV special. Getting married to a stranger is a daredevil stunt far more fascinating than jumping a train on a motorcycle, which Robbie Knievel did on Fox later that week to much lower ratings. That's partly because stupid Robbie didn't include a bikini contest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ignorance Is Wedded Bliss | 3/6/2000 | See Source »

...Evel Knievel takes a 30-year-old bride in a structure erected over the fountains at Caesars Palace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Then And Now: Nov. 29, 1999 | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

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