Bryan Armen Graham, Writer from Philadelphia

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream – and not make dreams your master;
If you can think – and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build ‘em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on”;

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings – nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And – which is more – you’ll be a Man my son!

- Rudyard Kipling, 1899

Laura Palmer was killed. Wrapped in plastic.

Her murder — on Feb. 24, 1989 — was the central mystery of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks, my favorite TV series of all-time.

CBS.com hosts full episodes of the entire series, but TP is a journey best enjoyed on a large screen over a slice of cherry pie and a hot cup of black coffee.

Twenty years ago today, James “Buster” Douglas knocked out Mike Tyson at the Tokyo Dome for the world heavyweight championship.

For children of the ’80s, there’s never been an athlete who captured the imagination quite like “Kid Dynamite.” At just 20 years and four months, Tyson became history’s youngest heavyweight champion with a second-round knockout of Trevor Berbick in 1986. He won 26 of his first 28 fights by KO, including 16 in the first round. He brought a record 37-0 with 33 knockouts into the Douglas fight and was a 42-to-1 favorite.

But more so than any other sport, anything can happen on any given night in a boxing ring, a lesson made abundantly clear to billions around the globe on Feb. 11, 1990. Listen above to Colonel Bob Sheridan’s call of the knockout. I still get chills when I hear it. It was sublime, impossible moments like Douglas’ upset of Tyson that drove me toward sports.

Last week, I spoke with Buster about the upset for an interview that appears today on SI.com. I also caught up with veteran sportswriter Tim May, who covered Douglas-Tyson for the Columbus Dispatch and who was the only journalist to predict the upset in print.

And since you asked, here’s my list of the 20 greatest heavyweights of all-time.

1. Joe Louis
2. Muhammad Ali
3. Jack Johnson
4. Jack Dempsey
5. Rocky Marciano
6. George Foreman
7. Larry Holmes
8. Joe Frazier
9. Lennox Lewis
10. Gene Tunney
11. Evander Holyfield
12. Mike Tyson
13. Sonny Liston
14. Jim Jeffries
15. Riddick Bowe
16. James J. Corbett
17. Ezzard Charles
18. Vitali Klitschko
19. Floyd Patterson
20. Jersey Joe Walcott

The Next Five: Max Baer, Archie Moore, Ken Norton, Max Schmeling, Earnie Shavers.

Last month, I tabbed the best sports movies of the 2000s for SI.com. Here are my choices for the decade’s 10 best films of any genre.

In alphabetical order.

• Almost Famous
• City of God
• Eastern Promises
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Half Nelson
• The Hurt Locker
• Into the Wild
• Pan’s Labyrinth
• There Will Be Blood
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

The Next Fifteen: Adaptation.,  Black Hawk Down,  The Departed,  Kill Bill, Little Miss Sunshine,  Man On Wire,  Monster,  Mulholland Drive,  Mystic River,  No Country For Old Men,  Rachel Getting Married,  The Return of the King,  The Royal Tenenbaums,  United 93,  WALL·E.