The first double-header in Major League Baseball history dates all the way back to September 25, 1882. The teams? Providence Grays and Worcester Ruby Legs of the National League. It happened at Messer...
Most hockey fans know Wayne Gretzky's numbers are outrageous. But even among his many records, one stands apart as completely untouchable: four separate seasons with more than 200 points. Nobody else ...
It could have been the ultimate local story. The richest man in Washington buying the state's struggling NFL team. But in the late 1990s, Bill Gates quietly looked into buying the Seattle Seahawks - a...
Buffalo tore it down to the studs. Target the top pick. Stack the odds. In 2015, they did exactly that. Worst record. Maximum lottery share. The McDavid draft. And the ball still bounced away. The ...
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...
