Last night, I watched ESPN’s 30 for 30 doc “One Night in Vegas”, it’s really, really good. The documentary by Reggie Rock Bythewood, director of Notorious, chronicles the oddly similar trajectory of the careers of Tupac Shakur and Mike Tyson, who were close friends going back to the late 80′s, early 90′s. Fittingly, ESPN premiered it on the anniversary of Tupac’s fatal shooting in Las Vegas following Iron Mike’s first round knockout of Bruce Seldon at the MGM Grand on Sep. 7, 1996.

The documentary features a couple of unreleased Tupac tracks. One I’m still looking for; the song he recorded a few days before the Seldon fight. In what was the most interesting part of the documentary, a Death Row Records engineer talks about the smash and dash production of that song (according to him, all Tupac needed was 20 minutes, a blunt and some Hennessey). This dude definitely told this story before – probably to every rapper, mixer, keyboard player and production intern he’s encountered in the industry since 1996.

The other unreleased song in “One Night in Vegas” is “Road 2 Glory,” another track that Tupac did for his friend Iron Mike before his WBC Heavyweight title fight against Frank Bruno – his first title fight after being released from prison in 1996. Check it out below – audio’s not great, overlay of boxing announcers doesn’t help much. Also included the video of Tyson walking out to it before the Bruno fight in March of ’96.

If anyone comes across the Seldon track, pass it my way.

No surprise, there’s a considerably large array of Wheaties boxes available for purchase on eBay. No surprise, most of them feature the athletes some of us remember from our youth or kids’ youth – to be featured on a Wheaties box has been quite the accolade in popular sports for some time. Each listing has a colorful, hopefully price-point-justifiable, story to tell. For example, an unopened encased box signed by Celtics Red Auerbach, Larry Bird, John Havlicek, Bob Cousy, Jojo White and KC Jones. Over 30 NBA titles combined, asking price $999. Question is: is there cereal in there?

For the more skeptical collectors amongst us, here’s something more guaranteed whole-grain free. And at the price of just four dollars a box…



For $10 K, you’ll receive a set of Wheaties boxes that includes 325 1993 Dallas Cowboys Super Bowl XXVIII championship editions, 125 Michael Jordan’s Comeback boxes, and 105 of those Auerbach, Bird, Hondo, etc. boxes, just to name 555 of the 2,750.

According to the listing, all the boxes are from the General Mills plant in Buffalo, NY, where the seller, ernest_orlando, went to college. Ernest says he bought them off plant employees, who were each given three boxes each time a new box was issued. So unlike what could potentially be molding inside other commemorative Wheaties memorabilia, these factory-flat boxes he guarantees have never come in contact with any sort of dietary fiber.