On May 16th, 2015, Russian President Vladimir Putin suited up to play in an exhibition ice hockey game to commemorate the 70th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War - aka World War 2. ...
The NFL used to be a much more dangerous place to play. If you need evidence of that statement, look no further than the various plays that the league has banned over the years, and then realize t...
On August 2nd, 2005, the Miami Heat pulled off the largest trade in NBA history, in terms of total number of players involved. The Miami Heat, which had a team that included the likes of Dwyane Wa...
For years, the NBA has been dogged by allegations that their draft lottery is rigged. With each passing year, it gets harder and harder to defend the league when it comes to this matter. Thing...
In the winter of 1971, things were looking up for Washington Redskins coach George Allen. The Redskins had clinched their first playoff berth in 25 years, and would ultimately finish the season wi...
Did you know that there was a very real possibility of the game of football being banned in the United States in the early 1900s? It's true - in 1905 alone, a staggering 18 young men died playing c...
President Abraham Lincoln is widely regarded as one of the best Presidents in the history of the United States. Much is known about President Lincoln, but did you know that he was a dominant wrest...
If you look at the Stanley Cup, there is a part of the engravings that says: 1919 MONTREAL CANADIENS SEATTLE METROPOLITANS SERIES NOT COMPLETED 1919 was the ONLY year in the history of the ...
Marty Turco, starting goaltender for the 2006-07 Dallas Stars, likely still shakes his head thinking about the first-round playoff series against the Vancouver Canucks. You see, Marty Turco posted...
"Slinging Sammy" Baugh was a one-of-a-kind athlete that earned himself entries into the College Football and Pro Football Hall of Fame. In a time when most quarterbacks were content to just hand o...
It's the old story - a superstar stays on for too long in the league and ends up tarnishing their legacy. Michael Jordan shouldn't have played with the Washington Wizards. Joe Montana shouldn'...
Did you know that the Seattle Seahawks were almost the "Seattle Kings"? Seattle had been pining for a professional football team since the late 1950s. In 1969, businessman Wayne Field formally t...
A total of 10 teams - including the 2020 Los Angeles Clippers and 1985 Los Angeles Lakers - have managed to crack 150 points in a single NBA playoff game. A couple of those teams needed overtime t...
Another unbreakable record? Most likely. On April 5th, 1967, Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia 76ers pulled down a record-breaking 41 rebounds in an Eastern Division Finals game against the Bos...
Stephen A. Smith recently stated that Deion Sanders is the greatest athlete in the history of the NFL. It's a reasonable argument - after all, Sanders was a two-sport athlete who was one of the gr...
