onesmallfire:

gordonshumway:

There are a handful of individuals who over the course of their lives will transcend their competitors and colleagues to become the signature representatives of their field, whether it’s Carl Sagan and astronomy, Orville Redenbacher and popcorn or the cast of Jersey Shore and everyday douchery. When it comes to sex though, anything that takes place between the fitted and the flat sheets will be measured against Wilt Chamberlain, the late NBA player who famously claimed to have slept with more than 20,000 women.

Chamberlain died in 1999 — and was presumably buried face down — but his X-rated legacy lives on. Whenever an oversized font precedes a sexually-charged article — whether it’s about Tiger and his silicone-stuffed “indescretions” or the number of condoms being distributed to athletes in the Olympic village — Chamberlain’s name has been pasted into several paragraphs. Apparently in addition to hanging his jersey from the rafters, his Sleep Number should’ve been retired as well.

Chamberlain’s Caligula-style legacy began with his book A View From Above, a title that suggests that he liked to be on top. He dedicated an entire chapter to his sex life, bragging that that he’d been with an estimated 20,000 women, a figure that equates to something like eight horizontal workouts (or vertical or diagonal or that Chandelier thing that I haven’t figured out yet) every week or 416 a year or I’m getting chafed just thinking about it.

This week for NBC Sports - Out of Bounds, I got to write about sex, which is kind of like asking a ground squirrel to write about stem cell research.

He was a Jayhawk. Rock Chalk!