Shaq vs. ???

shaq vs. tyson gay...60m for tyson. 30m for gay.

dumb dumb dumb

I want to see bob hayes vs Bolt vs Gay vs Powell vs Shaq

in the Tri

Ouch. That was painfully choreographed.

Dwight Howard is the best pure athlete in the world. I am serious. I was totally blown away by how fast he ran in that relay.

mundus vult decipi wrote:

Dwight Howard is the best pure athlete in the world. I am serious. I was totally blown away by how fast he ran in that relay.

seriously. how many COORDINATED 7footers have there been in history? Before Shaq and David Robinson, and before them Wilt and Kareem...vast majority are giant stiffs. like yao ming.

well at least 3 of the 6 were trying (mo greene, dwight howard, shaq)

the two nfl guys and tyson were obviously jogging.. but they obviously can't afford to get hurt on something dumb like this.

Who: Shaq vs Jim Rome

Under What Conditions: 400 meters

Why: Shaq thinks way too highly of himself. Thinks he is still athletic and worthy of playing on playoff contention teams and does not take kindly listening to wiser people tell him how it is. A good 400 with the wiser Jim Rome should break him down a bit.

Yao Ming is not a stiff. He is very coordinated and the 2nd best Center in the league. 2nd to Dwight Howard. My oh my that guy ran legitimately fast.

Shaq vs. the Flash in a Triathlon.

chuckie d wrote:

well at least 3 of the 6 were trying (mo greene, dwight howard, shaq)

the two nfl guys and tyson were obviously jogging.. but they obviously can't afford to get hurt on something dumb like this.

Yeah - it was pretty funny watching Gay try to make it look like he was trying while shortening his stride and just outleaning Shaq (timing it that way was probably harder then actually running hard)

his 6.08 out of the blocks for the 60 wasn't too bad though, that is probably a 10 sec or slightly under effort for 100m.

In case you missed it here was the show.

Shaq meets Tyson Gay in a restaurant and Shaq challenges him to a race. Gay smiles multiple times proving he actually does smile. The cameras attempt to block out Gay's adidas logos. Gay agrees to race and tells Shaq he'll need some help if he really wants to beat him from a good friend of his who can coach him- Maurice Greene.

Mo Greene sporting a few extra pounds meets Shaq at Occidental College. They do some drills and Mo attempts to teach him how to sprint. "Your arms (and) your hands control your legs". Shaq says, "when the legend gives you advice you take it."

After a bunch of Rachel Ray interludes they say there are going to be 2 races a Shaq vs Gay one on one race where Shaq runs 30 (yards not meters I believe) and Tyson 60. Plus there will be a relay. Chris Johnson (Tennessee Titans NFL running back who broke the yards from scrimmage record last year and claimed falsely he was in talks to race Usain Bolt last winter. see

http://www.letsrun.com/2010/simms0108.php

), Dwight Howard (Orland Magic basketball stud), and Tyson Gay with coach Leroy Dixon vs Shaq, Mo Greene (running and coaching) and Desean Jackson (Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver). It will be 200 meters/yards with it eventually coming out that the legs will be Mo Greene vs Dwight Howard for 50, then Desean Jackson vs Chris Johnson (100) and then Shaq vs Gay for 50.

First up is Shaq vs Gay over 60 and 30. Once you think about this you realize Shaq should win unless he is really really slow and he did beat Gay 4.86 seconds for Shaq vs 6.08 for Gay.

Then onto the relay. On the first leg, Dwight Howard handed off before Mo Greene somehow (Mo was sporting a few pounds but hard to believe an NBA player would beat him). Since Greene was on Shaq's team that should pretty much be it if you think about it (Jackson and Howard should be evenly matched on their second legs which would mean Gay would get the baton before Shaq and Gay should kill Shaq so Shaq would need a big big lead.)

But this was made for TV drama. Shaq somehow got the baton a little before Gay. Instead of showing them really race and Gay just crush Shaq, the camera's cut to a far away angle and Gay tried to make it look like he was really trying to come from behind and barely beat Shaq but it was clear the producers told him to make it close and he obliged by faking that he was running hard. It was only 50 yards/meters so Gay only had to act for a couple of seconds but every letsrun.com viewer would have seen through it.

Somewhere along the line we learned that ESPN forgot to obscure the adidas logos at all times (at the beginning they were even showing photos from past races like the World Champs and blurring them out. So much for journalism), that Tyson Gay can act and smile and is a lot faster than Shaq.

Of course this was filmed a long time ago so they didn't mention Gay just beat Usain Bolt.

Thanks for the recap, so glad I missed it :-)

Stating the obvious wrote:

Thanks for the recap, so glad I missed it :-)

It was worth seeing Dwight Howard run. I would wager that if Dwight Howard trained for two years, he could set a world record in the long jump.

mundus vult decipi wrote:

Stating the obvious wrote:

Thanks for the recap, so glad I missed it :-)

It was worth seeing Dwight Howard run. I would wager that if Dwight Howard trained for two years, he could set a world record in the long jump.

How do you have so little respect for your own sport?

Who: NFL Pro-Bowlers vs. NBA All-Stars

Conditions: Decathlon

Why: probably some great performances, and offensive linemen running the 1500

guy who is just sayin wrote:

How do you have so little respect for your own sport?

Powell's 8.95 is just under 30 feet.

I have seen Dwight Howard take off from well behind the free throw line and lay the ball in. So I have long known that he can jump. Until last night, I had no idea how much speed he had. I don't think it's a stretch to suggest that he could jump 29+ feet after two years of training.

I mean this literally: Dwight Howard is the most talented athlete I have ever seen.

Betcha that was the #1 T&F TV show this year world wide in the ratings. T&F has never been a spectator sport and never will be.

I was laughing so hard at the ridiculousness of that show. Sure enough, it was entertaining, but dear lord, it was so staged. I wonder how much they paid for the people in the stands to be there?

the world record for 60m is 6.39 by Mo Greene.

There is no way Tyson ran 60m he probably ran 55m or less.