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6 items by Jesse Hyde

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  Red Bull's Extreme Rube Goldberg Machine | VIDEO

  When Adam Sadowsky was 11, he built a simple contraption above his bedroom door to capture monsters. "You'd basically open the door, which would trigger a string that would drop a net on whoever was...

  November 16, 2012 4:52 PM ET
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  The Wilderness Heroine: Shooter Corey Cogdell | LIST ENTRY

  Corey Cogdell, the first American woman to medal in trapshooting – a sport in which competitors blast clay targets arcing across the sky – was raised in the wilds of Alaska, where her dad taught her to...

  July 27, 2012 11:27 AM ET
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  Rebel With a Cause: Gymnast John Orozco | LIST ENTRY

  Growing up in the Bronx, the fifth son of a sanitation crew supervisor, John Orozco took his fair share of abuse for choosing gymnastics over something more macho like boxing or football. Even the garbage men who...

  July 27, 2012 11:22 AM ET
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  Surfer Dane Reynolds Hates Competition - But Blows It Out of the Water | ARTICLE

  The rap on Dane Reynolds is that he could be the best surfer in the world, if he only gave a shit. Problem is Reynolds sees no point trying to cram the artistry of...

  November 3, 2011 2:45 PM ET
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  UFC Champ Jon 'Bones' Jones Might Be the Michael Jordan of Anything-Goes Combat | ARTICLE

  Jon "Bones" Jones sits in a wheelchair, two plastic bags stuffed with ice resting on his big, bruised feet. It's near midnight in Denver, and half an hour ago in front of 16,000 fans, Jones thrashed Quinton...

  November 1, 2011 3:30 PM ET
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  Inside 'The Order,' One Mormon Cult's Secret Empire | ARTICLE

  The two boys pulled into the driveway and shifted the green Honda into park. It was February in Salt Lake, cold and gray, and in the foothills above the city, a low fog hung over the mountains....

  June 15, 2011 6:25 PM ET