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It wasn’t the most historic Battle of the Sexes that a Long Beach athlete has ever won (Billie Jean King will probably never relinquish that title) but Misty May-Treanor and partner Kerri Walsh took down Shaq on his show Shaq Vs. last night, putting the big fella in his place\u2026for a few minutes at least.<\/p>\n
The premise of the show is that Shaq, undoubtedly one of the most unique athletes in American sports history, takes on other great athletes in their natural sport. <\/span>He played QB against Steelers starter Ben Roethlisberger, and in addition to taking on May\/Walsh, he’ll be racing against Michael Phelps in the pool later in the season. Shaq started off dismissing the unparalleled duo of May\/Walsh, both because of their recent one-year layoff, and their gender. <\/span>“They’re still just girls,” he told his trainer when their two gold medals were pointed out. <\/span>He refused a handicap (because of his “male bravado-ness”), and even said he hoped the Olympic heroes didn’t “mess up their nails too bad.” Misty, for her part, got in a dig, when she pointed out that Shaq “will be the tallest woman\u2014I mean, man\u2014that we’ve ever played against.” <\/span>She also came out for her introduction (“from Long Beach State University”) wearing Lakers warm-ups. In the end, of course, it wasn’t even close, as May\/Walsh swept Shaq and Todd Rogers. <\/span>Not the most competitive, intense, or rewarding win\u2014but a win nonetheless. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In a match that is unlikely to be called the most momentous of her career, Long Beach’s own Misty May-Treanor and partner Kerri Walsh took down Shaq in a beach volleyball match televised on ABC last night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3416"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=3416"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}