What Cartwright did here was borderline heroic.

Sadly, most people won't actually "read" an article like this. They'll skim until they find a word or passage they don't like, then they'll jump up onto their soapbox so they can complain about it.

The first 5 responses to the article were from people who had an insane knee-jerk reaction to the article. "Dog fighting?! You're out of your damn mind!" As if the mere mention of dog fighting is an endorsement of it. I'm embarrassed for those people.

This is true. I live fairly close to Dripping Springs, TX, where some of this story took place. Some of Otis Crater's descendants are no doubt still around.

Well that would make it easier for all of us to recognize and avoid the psychos, wouldn't it?

Well stated. It's impressive that an expose written on this subject nearly 40 years ago still carries the same visceral impact. Without reporting like Cartwright's, the "civilized" mainstream of America would never have understood what actually happens in this abhorrent subculture.

If you think this article glorifies dogfighting, reading comprehension is not your thing.

While I understand this article was from a different time, it still profoundly sickened me to the core. I will never understand people that can be so overtly cruel to animals.

My dog, a Shiba Inu, is the center of my world. More than my girlfriend, family, or anything else. The things I do for her to give her a fulfilling life and the amount of money I drop on her food so she eats nothing but the best is a bit crazy. And dogfighting makes me sick.

I found this to be one of the more interesting articles I've ever read. The people in the story were a little difficult to follow, but the events were so starkly reprehensible I couldn't stop reading. It really reminded me of Hunter S. Thompson's piece about the Kentucky Derby, except the opposite. Thompson sought…

I missed the part where this article glorified or made any of the characters look good.

Yeah, for over 50 years now. Of course the Rangers have had their die hard fans too

Absolutely true. Bigger, faster, stronger. These guys today are basically on a pro regimen from the time they start playing AAU. That just wasn't available back in the day. For better or worse, I guess. But no doubt it takes the pro game to a whole 'nother level. Don't know how anyone could argue that.

Blake Griffin leaps over cars. KD jumps out of the gym AND has a complete game AND has a 7' wingspan. You may have rosy feelings about those guys, but come on, the game has evolved.

Fellas, forward to about 4:50 and watch the gentlemen to the left of the video take quite a wallop to the head from a full court shot attepmt at the end of the 3rd quarter. I would imagine it caused a significant headache.

Man, the NBA used to be lame. Not one of those guys could get a shot in today's game.

Funny thing, your discovery of the Scorpion reads almost exactly like my own discovery of the very same model but in Lincoln, Nebraska, biking into a sharp, high-speed corner at the bottom of a hill, finding the Scorp parked curbside just past the apex. My folx had Fiats, a '69 then a '71 124 Sport Coupe and then a…

.. thank you, mt. legendary.

They did for me at about that age. I don't think there was any damage done, though my high school girlfriends might argue differently. And while I might owe some of them an apology, their subsequent significant others more likely owe me some thanks.

Great story. I share your enthusiasm, my first experience with the Scorpion/MonteCarlo was in "Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo". If you ever get one you could have a unique theme connecting the vehicles.