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The ecstatic, exuberant, crotch-grabbing ways of the late great Michael Jackson may have caused some controversy in their time, but that hasn’t stopped innumerable musical artists since from adopting the iconic move and making it their own. There’s Lil’ Wayne (at right), for instance, who seems to be doing it out of reflex more than [...]

Inevitably, rough stuff happens in competitive sports. That, as they say, is just the nature of the game – any game. And in professional sports’ mythologyzing cycle of masculinist machismo, a crotch shot is just about the most painful – symbolically if not physically – of hits. Complex picks some of pro basketball’s greatest crotch [...]