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...
The city of Atlanta is often mentioned as a potential expansion location for the NHL. This comes despite the fact that TWO NHL franchises have folded in Atlanta over the past 50+ years. I gues...
Rasheed Wallace sits at third place on the all-time technical foul list, as he was teed up a total of 317 times over his career. Only Karl Malone (332) and Charles Barkley (329) finished their car...
Who is the only player to ever win the NBA Finals MVP award on a losing team? It wasn't Michael Jordan, as MJ never lost when the Bulls made it to the finals. It wasn't LeBron James. It was...
It was the summer of 1991 and a 30 year-old Wayne Gretzky was still in his prime. The "Great One" was coming off of a phenomenal season with the Los Angeles Kings, as he put up 41 goals and 122 as...
During the 1912 season, Rube Marquard did something that has still never been topped - he won his first 19 starts of the season. In 1937 and 1969, Johnny Allen and Dave McNally won 15 straight gam...
