Here is a nearly impossible piece of trivia: Who are the two professional baseball players that hit home runs in their first and ONLY professional baseball games? The answer: Horace Davis and To...
The NBA has had dozens and dozens of players who played in just a single game and then left the league without playing again. There are many reasons for this: injuries, short-term contracts to replace...
It seems hard to comprehend - how could a NHL player score a goal in their debut, only to never play in the league again? How is that possible? This is exactly what happened to Brad Fast, Samuel...
The 1980-81 Winnipeg Jets were bad. Tremendously bad. The team finished with a record of 9-57-14, which was good for a miserly 32 points. The Jets, who went through three different coaches...
It was April 10th, 1982. It was Game 3 of the Clarence Campbell Conference semi-finals, and the Edmonton Oilers were in Los Angeles to take on the Kings in their best-of-5 series. The Edmonton O...
Luc Robitaille, who played for the Los Angeles Kings, Pittsburgh Penguins, New York Rangers and Detroit Red Wings, is regarded as one of the top players in the history of the NHL. In fact, Robitaille ...
Here is a bit of NBA history that you might not know - the Anderson Packers, based out of Anderson, Indiana, lasted just one season in the league. The team, which was owned by Ike and John Duffey,...
There have been some pretty obvious snubs for the NBA's MVP award over the history of the league. Kobe Bryant not winning in 2005-06. Chris Paul not winning in 2007-08. The list goes on and on. ...
From time to time, a particularly savage dunk will result in the backboard being shattered in the NBA. Did you know that shattering the backboard will result in a technical foul? That's right - ...
In 1982, a player's strike resulted in the traditional 16-game schedule being whittled down to just 9 games. As a result, we ended up with an abbreviated season that resulted in some pretty wacky a...
Larry Izzo had a very productive career in the NFL. Over the course of his career, Izzo played 13 seasons, including eight with the New England Patriots. During his career, Izzo was named to the P...
At the end of 2006, Tatum Bell's NFL career seemed like it was on a real upswing. After rushing for 921 yards and 8 touchdowns with the Denver Broncos in 2005, Tatum Bell followed this up with 1,0...
The game started out as an absolute stinker and ended up being regarded as one of the greatest NFL games in the history of the league. Let's set the table. It was January 2nd, 1982, and the Mi...
Over the history of the NBA, just 10 players have managed to score at least 70 points in a single game. Wilt Chamberlain is the only player to have ever scored 70+ points more than once - in fact,...
Isaiah Wilson was a colossal bust. There have been bigger busts in the NFL Draft - JaMarcus Russell and Ryan Leaf to name a few. Isaiah Wilson, however, holds the distinction of being the firs...
