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Motorcycle daredevil cannot sue sports network over "pimp" claim Evel Knievel has no valid defamation claim against ESPN over a photograph and caption published on a Web site, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. Jan. 5, 2005 -- Famed motorcycle stuntman Evel Knievel cannot sue EPSN for defamation over a Web-published photograph of him and two woman with the caption "Evel Knievel proves that you're never too old to be a pimp," a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. In a decision centering on meaning of the word "pimp," the U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco (9th Cir.) ruled 2-1...