An ESPN 30 for 30 about Walt “Clyde” Fraiser, the ostentatious, lugubrious, crocodile-leather clad Knicks legend/announcer just came out. He is cool. See it after the jump.

I always knew Muhammad Ali for being one of America’s most towering sports figures, and for being one of the most towering sports figures ever in public life, period. But until the video below, I confess I hadn’t been aware of one of the most important things he ever did to earn that status. You can see for yourself after the jump.

Casual sex will make your life a living nightmare and no one will ever actually love you for who you are if you play sports for a living. That’s the main takeaway from Broke, last night’s 30 for 30 documentary on the financial pitfalls that professional athletes often face. More, after the jump.

Do you like it when athletes blow through their fat paychecks like it’s their last day on Earth? Do you like ESPN’s 30 For 30 series? Of course you do. Now watch a clip from the brand new 30 For 30 film, Broke, which is directed by Billy Corben and premieres tomorrow at 8 p.m. on ESPN.

If you haven’t seen ESPN’s 30 for 30 series, then stop reading, go fake being sick, and watch some of them. Or maybe wait on that plan a couple months: the sports documentary series returns on Tuesday, October 2 at 8 p.m. Details after the jump.

Were you a fan of 30 for 30, Bill Simmons’ brainchild/ESPN’s series of documentaries highlighting 30 sports stories from the past 30 years that the company launched the celebrate its 30th anniversary in 2009? If you are… good news.

One of the most compelling moments in last night’s 30 for 30 Steve Bartman documentary comes from the first-hand story of Wrigley Field security guard Erika Amundsen. It was Amundsen’s job to escort Bartman to safety: first at the fateful game, and later after it ended. See how it happened after the jump.

During last night’s 30 for 30 documentary on reviled Cubs fan Steve Bartman, filmmaker Alex Gibney highlighted a funny moment on SportsCenter when a Howard Stern fan prank-called then-anchor Dan Patrick.

In this sneak peek from tonight’s Steve Bartman 30 for 30, Bartman’s goat moment is compared to another famous baseball tragedy: that of Red Sox first baseman Bill Buckner.

On October 15th, 2003, the Chicago Sun-Times published the name and hometown of a 26-year-old computer consultant named Steve Bartman. The paper was not wrong for doing this — the information was widely available on message boards the night before and other publications would’ve done it soon anyway — but it signaled an end to whatever life Steve Bartman had known before.