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...show." Cates also points out that Rock's hiring isn't exactly a bold new idea: the producer first offered him the job six years ago. "He told me then, 'It's an old-man show.' This time he said, 'Well, I'm an old man.'" --By Desa Philadelphia...
...wasn't lost on anyone: the kid was Rocky. Najai (Nitro) Turpin, 23, was one of 16 boxers chosen for The Contender, an NBC reality show featuring Sylvester Stallone as a co-host. Like Sly's character, Turpin had come up against the odds in a rough part of Philadelphia. The show's producers even taped Turpin running up the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art in triumph, just like Rocky. "They always told me, 'You're gonna have to fight your way out of the ghetto,'" Turpin says in a voice-over. "That's what I'm going...
...most-wanted fugitive list. In what may be the most desperate attempt to avoid going back to Iraq, Army Specialist Marquise Roberts, 23, allegedly had his wife's cousin shoot him in the leg and then told police he had been caught in random crossfire on a North Philadelphia street corner...
There's doable, and there's 300 miles, roughly the distance from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia. The Karnazes megamarathon will require staying up for more than three days, not to mention the possibility of sleep running and hallucinating. "My curiosity is how far this human system can go," says Karnazes. "What is it really capable of?" His endurance is legendary in the ultramarathon community, a 12,000- to 15,000-strong collection of rabid overachievers. On the road to 300 Karnazes pursues a vampire-like training schedule, rising at 2 a.m. for 50-mile runs and then putting in a full...
Name Withheld, Philadelphia...