Yesterday the Beastie Boys were elected to the Rock N' Roll Hall of Fame. In a statement, the group cited "inspiration from our families, friends and musicians...and too many others to possibly name." Conspicuously absent in the list of thank yous were the sports figures who have served as muses—and whose names completed couplets with hard-to-rhyme words like "prosciutto"—to the Beasties over the years.
In order to correct that wrong (no doubt MCA, Ad-Rock and Mike D will thank us at the induction ceremony), we scoured the B-Boys' catalogue for references to on-field ballers. Here are the Beastie Boys' 10 Coolest Sports Name Drops...




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L.B. Deyo February 24th, 2012 at 03:27 PM
The line isn't about how well Rizzuto was paid as a shortstop. It's a reference to his second career as a TV pitchman for The Money Store.