For the birds
Former world heavyweight champ Mike Tyson will take flight on Animal Planet with a new sport — pigeon racing.
The network this week announced a new reality show that will pit Tyson, a novice pigeon racer, against serious competitors.
The show is currently titled “Taking on Tyson” and promises to bring audiences inside this “intensely competitive and bizarrely fascinating world.”
Tyson has raised pigeons all his life but will take to the rooftops as a racing rookie. The network says he’ll be assisted by a colorful team of pigeon experts as he rears, trains and races them.
The show is scheduled to be taped this spring in New York City and air early next year.
Like a shell a game: Mark Cuban, owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks, recently revealed a bit of his trading philosopjy on Twitter: “Every team has guys that are morons. … But you want to dump your morons on the other guy. So you try to play hide the morons.”
PARTING SHOT
“What’s wrong with that? I take a shower naked.”
— Chad Ochocinco
The Cincinnati Bengals receiver to SI.com, admitting that he likes to jog in the nude on his wooded property.
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