Modern athletes get traded for failing to play through a sore knee. In 1934, the captain of the Chicago Black Hawks won his team its first Stanley Cup while a tonsillar infection silently destroyed hi...
The NBA playoffs are supposed to be where the league's best teams meet and grind out close, hard-fought basketball. Most of the time, that's exactly what happens. But every once in a while, one team c...
Whenever the Michael Jordan GOAT debate kicks off again, somebody always says it. "He never lost a Finals. Six for six. Game 7? Forget it, he didn't even need them." And that part is actually true. Ac...
Two percent. That's the success rate when an NHL team falls behind 3-0 in a playoff series. Two hundred and eleven teams have stared down that abyss across Stanley Cup playoff history. Four climbed ou...
The NFL Draft is supposed to be the start of a dream. You hear your name called, you hold up a jersey, you cash a fat check, and you go play professional football. That is how it works for almost ever...
Thirty-two franchises, ninety years of the NFL Draft, one single selection per team that defined the course of the organization. From Tom Brady falling to pick 199 in 2000 to Bart Starr going in the 1...
Fernando Mendoza steps into the green room Thursday night and becomes the 28th man to sit in the most scrutinised seat in the building. Before he does, Sports-King went back through all 26 first overa...
It was the first round that didn't seem to want to end. The first round of the 2007 NFL Draft took an astonishingly long six hours and eight minutes. In an average NFL Draft in this day and age,...
From Walt Frazier leading the 1969 Knicks to a first-round sweep of the 57-win Bullets to Jimmy Butler dropping 56 points to eliminate the 2023 Bucks, seven teams in NBA history have entered the playo...
Every April, NFL fans argue about which team made the best picks. But once in a while, the argument isn't about one team or one pick. It's about an entire year. Some draft classes are so loaded the...
The list of the top 10 most lopsided NHL playoff series (based on goal differential) has some very interesting entries. You have a six-game Conference Finals where one team outscored the other by 1...
Tiger Woods had an aura about him when he was in his prime. If he had the lead, you weren't going to catch him. Not all golfers had that killer instinct. Some, unlike Tiger, wilt under the press...
The very first NFL draft took place on February 8th, 1936. There were a total of nine rounds and 81 selections. Over the years, the number of rounds swelled to over 30, before eventually being tri...
One of the perks of owning a NFL team is that everybody on the staff works for you. This means that if there is a player that you really want to draft, you can overrule your General Manager and sco...
With the NFL draft coming up, I think it might be interesting to take a look at which players have been the highest draft at each position since the start of the NFL. In going through this list, w...
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