A history of presidential pardons in sports, from George Steinbrenner to Brian Urlacher's shady brother
by Thomas Laforgia from Deadspin > Sports News Without Fear, Favor or Compromise on (#5D3AF)
As former wrestler and renowned social scientist The Iron Sheik once noted: THE POLITICS AND THE WRESTLING SAME THING." This holds true even when we zoom out to the sports world at large, where the fates of athletic luminaries often intertwine with the whims of the federal government. These whims occasionally...