American Gladiators

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Greg Fitzsimmons (stand-up comedian/VH-1's "Best Week Ever"), Jason Peter (former NFL Defensive Tackle, former Nebraska All-American, & author of "Hero Of The Underground"), & Dan "Nitro" Clark ("American Gladiators" & author of "Gladiator: A True ...

Published Mon, Jun 8

Best books … chosen by Chuck Palahniuk

source: The Week Magazine

Gladiator: A True Story of 'Roids, Rage, and Redemption by Dan Clark (Scribner, $25). Clark played the character “Nitro” on the television series American Gladiators, and if you read only one book on vacation this year, this has to be it. ...

Published Fri, May 1

Book Review: Gladiator: A True Story of 'Roids, Rage, and Redemption

source: Blogcritics

 OH Since I was a competitor on American Gladiators, competing against the original Gladiators, I was excited to get my copy of Gladiator: A True Story of 'Roids, Rage, and Redemption. Plus I love true stories and this is a story about someone I knew, ...

Published Mon, Apr 27

Nitro's retrospective is a ripping good read

source: San Jose Mercury News

  USA Then I found "Gladiator," the autobiography of Dan Clark, a man you might know as Nitro, star of the original "American Gladiators." "Gladiator: A True Story Of 'Roids, Rage and Redemption" by Dan Clark, aka Nitro (Simon & Schuster, $25, 241 pages, ...

Published Sun, Apr 19

Nitro's Coming to Town!

source: blogs.seattleweekly.com

 WA If you watched the original American Gladiators, you may remember a slightly badass dude named Nitro. (That's him on the left!) Nitro was the cockiest Gladiator, a swaggering shit-talker who spewed lines like "Either you love me or you hate me, ...

Published Fri, Mar 13

The Wrongs of Spring

source: Publishers Weekly

 NY Another book that deals specifically with the sin du jour —steroid use—is Gladiator: A True Story of 'Roids, Rage, and Redemption by Dan Clark, aka Nitro of the American Gladiators TV show. Clark is a former professional football player (NFL Europe) ...

Published Sun, Mar 8

Ex-'American Gladiator' tells steroid-soaked tale

source: Daily News Transcript

 MA For Dan Clark - better known as one of the titular combatants of the athletic TV game show "American Gladiators" - that event was watching his older brother get electrocuted to death at age 10. "Randy was big. Bigger than I could ever be," Clark writes ...

Published Sun, Mar 8

Ex-Gladiator deals straight dope on steroids

source: Toronto Star

Take it from Dan Clark, who became one of the wildly popular "heroes" of the American Gladiators TV series: the dangers are real. Through his time as a US college football player and into his heyday as the muscle-popping character Nitro, Clark became ...

Published Sun, Feb 22