New York Yankees

Spoiler alert: Coins from Taiwan often have either Chiang Kai-shek’s or Sun Yat-sen’s faces on them.

Limp Bizkit were everywhere in the late 90s/early 00s. Then they fell off the face of the earth.

The Lobbyist

Marc Ratner spent 21 years with the Nevada State Athletic Commission, including 14 as its executive director. In the mid-1990s, when MMA was in its infancy, Ratner spoke out against it, saying that it would never be allowed in Las Vegas. In 2006, however, Ratner accepted a job with the UFC as its vice president of regulatory affairs. “I had the best regulatory job in the world,” said Ratner. “But what intrigued me about the UFC was that it was a brand new sport. I wanted to be on the ground floor, to be a pioneer and try to get it legalized. You can’t do that in basketball or boxing, since those sports have been around so long.”

The time I interviewed Mets and Yankees great Dwight Gooden.