Fearless, adventurous, death-defying, famous for his legendary leaps, Evel Knievel is now known as the father of Extreme Sports. But the legend took objection to one stunt, pooled after he attended ESPN's Extreme Sports Awards. Though the network eventually removed the picture, espn.com praised his virility by showing the daredevil with his arms around his wife and another woman as proof that you're never too old to be a pimp. Evel wasn't really a pimp, but he was too old to take it as a compliment so he had his lawyer embark on another Extreme Sport, suing the site for slander. Did this daredevil jock to the wrong conclusion? The court refused to take the caption seriously, calling someone a pimp isn't very nice, but in this case, the court thought the network really did mean it as a compliment. Having lead to the wrong conclusion, the daredevil's lawsuit came to a crash landing and the case was dismissed. For the Legal Television Network, I am Irwin Kramer.
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