Happy Chocolate Thunder Day

It's a very special No Mas holiday today, the birthday of one of the founding members of our Hall of Fame, Chocolate Thunder himself, the Double Dizzle, Darryl Dawkins. To celebrate, we recommend that you go back and check out our interview with Choc from a few years ago where we touched on many stratospheric matters, including Darth Vader's one-on-one game and Choc's on-again, off-again friendship with Daredevil.

But look here, Chocolate Thunder, the brother the brother the terminator the cutter... he's not greedy. And so he asked that we also recognize today the other mere mortals who share his cosmic birthday. Of course we shall honor his wishes. I present to you below three baseballers (skipper of the Nats, Rey Mysterioso and the coolest person ever to have the nickname Schoolboy who is NOT Bobby Chacon), three Olympic gold-medal winners (a Canadian alpine legend and two Americans, a sprinter and a swimmer), two oft-capped English footballers, two golfers (one the owner of two green jackets, and one who was also a singer of note and whose weirdass biography I have just got to read), India's finest cricketer, Holland's finest dart-ist, the finest jockey and horse of the Victorian era, the starting center of the E Street Band, the bona fide original Nacho Libre, the first BMX rider ever to land a frontflip-tailwhip, the best quarterback/halfback in Chicago football history, and finally the Queen of Hip Hop Soul, who frequently hits clean-up in Large's fantasy batting order of stone-cold foxes who straight-up kill it on the mike.