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BY DC CUEVA
For the past month, ESPN has dedicated what would've been its Sunday night timeslot for Major League Baseball for the 10-part documentary miniseries The Last Dance, chronicling Michael Jordan's Chicago Bulls of the 1990's and what led up to its last chapter of the 1998 NBA Finals. The Last Dance has been a critical, ratings and pop culture success as we have gotten a deep dive into one of sports' greatest dynasties - a time for those to dust off those memories of Jordan, Scottie Pippen, coach Phil Jackson and those involved in that magical time.
It has been part of ESPN's successful foray into sports documentaries with its 30 for 30 franchise of films, continuing in a legacy of storytelling rooted in ABC's Wide World of Sports and when it pioneered coverage of the Olympics with its "up close and personal" focus on the athletes. And another defining moment of the '90s that took place in between the Bulls' two three-year reigns as champs saw ESPN and their new siblings FX take viewers into a saga that gripped the world's attention just a few years ago.
And believe it or not, there is a strange link of sorts between this and the beat we cover on a weekly basis in the world of MTV Reality and The Challenge, for which one member of the group pictured to your right in the cast of what some consider its most memorable season ever, Rivals of 2011, had a chance to spend a moment with the person who is considered the most famous serial killer of our generation who now calls the same place home in what will be the new home in the NFL come this fall. That offers some context to the story were looking back at the ordeal surrounding the man who those who saw him play in both college & pro football still call by the nickname, "The Juice."
