Badlands Season 2, Sports Land, an anthology podcast from Jake Brennan, creator and host

of the award-winning music and true crime podcast, Disc Race Land, is out now.

This show is just like Disc Race Land, you know, edge of your seat storytelling and immersive

sound design, but instead of the crazy lives of rock stars, Jake is talking about the true

crimes and the unbelievable careers of some of the most famous athletes in the world.

It's like Mike Tyson, Aaron Hernandez, Tanya Harding, Pete Rose and O.J. Simpson.

Here's a clip from the episode on Mike Tyson, whose arrival as a prodigious 18-year-old professional

boxer in the 1980s represented a major paradigm shift in the sport.

But just as quickly as he rose, Mike Tyson began to fall.

Check it out.

Before the crowd at the Marage in Las Vegas even laid eyes on Mike Tyson, they heard him

coming. His opponent, Donovan Ruddick, pacing anxiously in the ring, he heard him coming

too.

Public enemies welcomed to the terror dome, thundered from the house PA.

The song was an announcement, a warning, and a premonition all wrapped in one.

And then the visual matched what the pack crowd was hearing.

Mike Tyson, in the flesh, snaking his way through the throng with menacing ease.

He was flanked by a posse in black shirts, sunglasses, and black caps that red, Tyson

rules.

Mike wasn't wearing a shirt, he had no fancy satin robe, no corporate logos, just a white

towel with a hole cut in the middle so that he could wear it like a shirt.

It looked like something he found on the floor of the dressing room backstage.

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