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Basketball, Eh?
Did you know that the Raptors and then-Vancouver Grizzlies weren't the first NBA teams to tip off north of the border? That honor belongs to the Toronto Huskies, one of the first teams in the league. Canada proved to be a tough basketball market. The Huskies ...
Arrr, Matey!
When the Tampa Bay Buccaneers won their first NFL championship in franchise history, defeating the Oakland Raiders 48-21 in Super Bowl XXXVII, the win was thanks to the Buccaneers’ defense which intercepted five passes, three of which were returned for touchdowns. ...
Going for 2 Again
On Aug. 4, 1982, New York Mets outfielder Joel Youngblood singled against Hall of Fame pitcher Ferguson Jenkins. Minutes later, the Mets traded Youngblood to the Montreal Expos. Youngblood flew to Philadelphia to join his new team and singled again off of ...
Wolverines Bite!
Since the school began playing college football in 1879, the University of Michigan Wolverines have won more games than any other team. What's more, the most laterals in a game (8) came during the Michigan Wolverines’ final play of the Alamo Bowl in 2005. ...
Going for 2
After being adopted by the NFL in 1994, the first successful NFL two-pointer was made by Cleveland Browns punter/placekick holder Tom Tupa against Cincinnati Bengals in the season opener. In fairness, Tupa was also a backup quarterback.
Welcome, Ladies
It seems that marathon running is no longer an all-boys club: Women made up approximately 41 percent of finishers in 2010, four times as many as in 1980.
World Cup Fun
In the 1938 World Cup semifinal, Italian Guiseppe Meazza's shorts fell down as he was taking a penalty shot. He held his shorts up and calmly scored past Brazil's Valter Zenga. 1950 India withdrew form the World Cup because FIFA refused to let their team ...
Priceless...
The winning team in the Super Bowl receives permanent possession of the Vince Lombardi Trophy, a sterling silver icon. The trophy stands 20.75 inches tall, weighs 107.3 ounces, and is valued in excess of $25,000.
A Cave Painting is Worth 1000 Conjectures
According to one source, cross-country skiing is 22,000 years old. In a cave drawing in central France there is evidence that the Paleolithic Cro-Magnon man hunted reindeer on snowshoe and ski.
Finally, Some Sense
In contrast to the whiners in Washington D.C., Chief Osceola, the Florida State mascot who rides out and plants a flaming spear at midfield before each home game, has been approved by Florida’s Seminole Indian Tribe.
Going Mudding
For every MLB game, umpires and clubhouse attendants prepare approximately six dozen baseballs by rubbing them in mud. And it’s not just any old mud. The mud is produced by an unknown source and is specifically designed to take the slick shine off new baseballs. ...
Coming Off the Bench is Hard
New York Yankees legend Babe Ruth was an outstanding hitter with a career batting average of .344, but during his career, Ruth was a paltry .167 hitter as a pinch-hitter, with just 13 hits in 67 at-bats.
Train or Die?
The triathlon challenges athletes to swim, bike and run, in that order, without stopping. It's rising in popularity, with nearly two million participants a year. Yet, between 2006 and 2008, 14 people died in the U.S. while competing. Interestingly, despite ...
World's Greatest Athletes
Decathletes are actually competing against a scoring table and the athlete with the highest total score wins. A good decathlete must score well in each event rather than just dominating a few. A perfect score in the decathlon is 1,000 points in each event ...
Secret Ski Practice
In the late 1800′s in Norway, skiing was considered “unwomanly” and skating became it’s “lady-like” replacement. That didn’t stop those rebellious Norwegian girls who would practice skiing in secret and eventually establish the world's first all-woman ski ...
50-50
St. Louis Cardinals superstar Stan Musial retired in 1963 with 3,630 hits, the second-most in baseball history at the time, behind only Ty Cobb. Interestingly, of Musial’s 3,630 total hits, 1,815 of them were hit at home, and 1,815 on the road.
Walk-off Single?
The baseball phrase “walk-off home run” didn’t apply before the 1920 season. If a player hit a home run in the bottom of the ninth inning or in the bottom of an extra inning before 1920, the home run was actually only credited as a single, double or triple, ...
Fowl Ball
Back in the 80's, during a game between the New York Yankees and Toronto Blue Jays at Exhibition Stadium in Toronto, Yankees right fielder Dave Winfield was warming up between innings when he threw a ball that struck and killed a seagull. After the game, ...
What Nearly Didn't Happen
Before Aaron Rodgers became an NFL star and Super Bowl MVP, he almost walked away from football. But Butte Community College in California convinced Rodgers to play quarterback for them. After a great season there he played 3 years for the Cal Bears and the ...
U.S. Open Big Winners
Jimmy Connors, Pete Sampras and Roger Federer have won most the Men`s Singles US Open titles in the open era, with Federer's coming consecutively between 2004 and 2008.
Kite Records
Some kite records include the smallest kite in the world which flies at 5mm high, the largest number of kites flown on a single line at 11,284, the longest kite in the world at 3394 feet, the largest kite in the world known as a megakite at 55 x 22 metres, ...
Windsurfers Get High
Nobody knows who has made the highest windsurfing jump. Jumping often happens spontaneously, but Boujma Guillot and Levi Siver had their jumps measured at between 15 and 18 meters high. Philip Köster also reports a 18 meter jump. This is probably the current ...
Longest Disc Golf Drive
According to reports, the longest disc golf drive on record is 250.00m (820 ft.). This monster was thrown by Christian Sandstrom on 4/26/2002 in El Mirage, CA using an Innova Valkyrie DX.
First Parachuter
The first user of a man-made parachute was not a man or a woman, but a dog. The inventor of the parachute, a Frenchman named Jean Pierre Blanchard, tested his new invention in 1785, by going up in a balloon with his dog, strapping him to a parachute, and tossing ...
September 23rd, 1908
Among baseball fans, this day is known for Merkle's boner. At the end of a tie game the New York Giants 19-year-old Fred Merkle failed to touch second base. The Chicago Cubs appealed and Merkle was called out for the third out of the inning. Because the ...