Thursday afternoon, Sanders' website posted an awesome throwback video from 1991 featuring something called Slam Fest. It had star athletes from sports other than basketball competing in a dunk ...

Watch Sanders’ Slam During Dunk Contest Though he is clearly modest about his overall athletic ability, it’s clear Sanders was a serious player in his day across the board no matter his chosen ...

A video has resurfaced online that displays former Detroit Lions running back Barry Sanders ability to dunk a basketball. Many were surprised to find out that Sanders participated in a dunk ...

The Lion King To see Sanders able to thrive in such a contest and jam a ball isn’t that much of a shock given what he was able to do with the Lions through the years. Sanders routinely had the ...

We are all prisoners of our own context, of course, but after watching this recently unearthed footage of Barry Sanders throwing down in a 1991 dunk contest, I think we can all agree—whether old ...

In 2011, Blake Griffin won by filming a Kia ad. There's no way the NBA Dunk Contest wouldn't be better if it had non-basketball stars in the field. But it's never going to happen.

Barry Sanders, basketball star. It's sometimes instructive to look back at superstars' high school careers to get a sense of how much they progressed as collegiate and professional athletes.