What does a .440 batting average even look like in real life? Imagine hitting safely in nearly half your at-bats for an entire season. That was Hugh Duffy in 1894 - a year so absurd it is practically ...
Some records exist because of greatness. Others exist because they cannot be broken. Tiger Woods' streak of 142 consecutive cuts made on the PGA Tour is both. From 1998 to 2005, Tiger did not miss ...
Chris Weinke took one of the strangest roads ever to the NFL. He was a star quarterback at Cretin-Derham Hall High School in Minnesota, the same program that produced future NFL names like Joe Mauer a...
College football is full of quirks, but few things confuse modern fans more than the sport's original scoring rules. The game we know today - six points for a touchdown, three for a field goal, one fo...
A few years back, one of the more fascinating hobby finds emerged north of the border. A single, unopened case of 1979-80 O-Pee-Chee hockey card boxes surfaced in Canada. The set, of course, features ...
The NHL has seen its share of legends. Gretzky, Lemieux, Orr. But for every superstar, there are players who barely leave a mark. In fact, some careers are over before they even start. Take the cas...
The 1984 NBA Draft is remembered for one reason: the Portland Trail Blazers passed on Michael Jordan. They took Sam Bowie at No. 2. Houston grabbed Hakeem Olajuwon first overall, and that left Jordan ...
The Toronto Raptors and Vancouver Grizzlies never had a fair shot when they entered the NBA in 1995. The league wanted Canadian expansion, but it did not want instant success. The rules in place made ...
Ten-Cent Beer Night. The name alone explains what happened. On June 4, 1974, the Cleveland Indians tried a promotion that has gone down as one of the strangest and most disastrous in baseball history....
Bill Foley didn't wait for approval. He didn't wait for the NHL to come calling. Instead, he turned the normal process on its head and forced the league's hand. When Foley wanted a hockey team in L...
The Dodgers filing for bankruptcy in 2011 felt unthinkable. One of baseball's crown jewels, stuck in the kind of financial hole that smaller-market teams usually stumble into. Yet the collapse was tie...
George Steinbrenner did not outbid the world for the Yankees. He out-structured it. The price tag was $10 million in January 1973, a number that looked big on a headline but small on a balance sheet o...
In 1979, Jerry Buss closed one of the most legendary deals in sports history. He bought the Los Angeles Lakers, the NHL's Kings, the Forum, and a massive California ranch. The purchase price was $67.5...
The NFL was a different league before overtime. Regular season games could and often did end in ties. No sudden death, no extra period, just the scoreboard frozen and both teams heading home with unfi...
When the NFL first kicked off in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, a touchdown was not worth six points. It was worth four. That's right - scoring the most iconic play in footbal...
