2004
- ...that Clint Malarchuk sustained one of the most horrific in-game injuries in NHL history?
- ...that Comiskey Park was the oldest stadium in Major League Baseball until its demolition in 1991?
- ...that Jimmy Piersall ran the bases backwards after hitting his hundredth home run?
- ...that there are at least 18 different distinct video game genres?
- ...that left-handed specialists in baseball frequently enjoy long careers since their pitching arm suffers lesser stress?
- ...that high jumper Ulrike Meyfarth became the youngest individual Olympic champion in athletics?
- ...that in 1990 Cecil Fielder became the first Detroit Tiger since Hank Greenberg (in 1938) to slug over 50 home runs in a season?
- ...that Labatt Park in London, Ontario, Canada is thought to be the oldest continually operating baseball diamond in the world?
- ...that Tom Hanks was in a 1982 TV movie called Mazes and Monsters about a group of college students and their interest in the eponymous role-playing game?
- ...that the heavyweight class in boxing has no maximum weight limit?
- ...that the longest NHL overtime game in the history of hockey was a 1936 match between the Detroit Red Wings and the Montreal Maroons?
- ...that the 2000 Summer Olympics gold medalist in the heptathlon was Denise Lewis?
- ...that Connie Mack managed for 53 baseball seasons, winning nine pennants and five World Series?
- ...that a cousin of curling, ice stock sport, is played primarily in Germany and Austria?
- ...that former U.S. decathlete Rafer Johnson ignited the Olympic Flame during the opening ceremonies of the 1984 Summer Olympics?
- ...that Taiwan professional baseball was started in 1989, and the two leagues merged in 2003?
- ...that the Homestead Grays were the Negro League world champs every year from 1937 through 1945?
- ...that the longest extra inning game in professional baseball history was an International League game that lasted 33 innings?
- ...that Dave Righetti was the first player in Major League Baseball history to pitch a no-hitter and lead the league in saves in a career?
- ...that 1943 Triple Crown winner Count Fleet was both sire of and sired by Kentucky Derby winners?
- ...that in Pac-Mania Pac-Man has the ability to jump?
- ...that in basketball technical fouls are rule violations that occur outside the play of the game?
- ...that there are several different kinds of baseball gloves, including catcher's mitts, pitcher's gloves, first basemen's gloves and infield and outfield gloves?
- ...that the 1903 Tour de France often required riders to cycle through the night?
- ...that sex determination in sports is no longer practiced at the Olympic Games?
- ...that when Lauri Lehtinen narrowly won his gold medal at the 1932 Summer Olympics, he was booed?
- ...that Joseph Guillemot, winner of the 5000 m at the 1920 Olympics, was a pack-a-day smoker?
- ...that the T-Mobile Team is currently racing in the 2004 Tour de France?
- ...that Men's Olympic Football Tournament 2004 will feature U-23 (under 23-year-old) national teams?
- ...that past Olympic mascots include several bears named Misha, Coal, Howdy and Hidy, and dogs Cobi and Waldi ?
- ...that bicycle helmets are not designed to be re-used after a major accident?
- ...that a pit stop in Formula One autosport involves about 20 mechanics?
- ...that the golden age of arcade games began with the release of Space Invaders in 1978?
- ...that non-standard poker hands in five-card draw are determined by house rules and may have colorful names like Little Bobtail and Round the Corner Straight?
- ...that the most famous boardwalk in the United States is probably the one in Atlantic City, New Jersey, thanks to its association with the Monopoly board game?
- ...that Leyton F.C. had to win a High Court action in order to call itself the oldest football club in London?
- ...that there are three major kinds of arcade cabinet: upright, sit-down and cocktail?
- ...that the international Harmon Trophy is awarded to the most notable aviator of the year?
- ...that the now-closed Opryland was the official theme park of NASCAR?
- ...that modern bicycle frame construction is usually founded on a diamond-frame design?
- ...that golf ball design is a real world application of Platonic solids?
- ...that the yobidashi serves as a sumo wrestler's handyman, promoter and assistant?
- ...that in 1968, Swedish pentathlete Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall became the first Olympian disqualified for drug use, for drinking two beers?
- ...that the Curse of Billy Penn is an alleged curse that may explain the failures of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania professional sports teams?
- ...that Lyndon Johnson announced his hiring of Gerri Whittington, the first African-American White House secretary, by arranging for her to appear on the TV game show What's My Line?
- ...that the 2002 Winter Olympic bid scandal was a scandal involving allegations of bribery to get the 2002 Winter Olympic Games to Salt Lake City, Utah?
- ...that Luigi Fagioli had one of auto racing's most famous rivalries with Louis Chiron in the 1930s?
- ...that Hubie Brown resigned as coach from the Memphis Grizzlies on Thanksgiving Day 2004?
- ...that motorcyclist Jo Siffert was killed in an end-of-season non-championship F1 race on October 24, 1971 at Brands Hatch?
- ...that development on Star Wars Quake lasted for six years, and is probably the most famous Quake mod to never be completed?
- ...that Pepsi offered a Harrier fighter jet in their Pepsi Billion Dollar Sweepstakes game and the Pepsi Stuff game?
- ...that baseball player Jim Creighton's death at age 21 may have been caused by the force with which he swung his bat?
- ...that French tennis player Henri Leconte won 9 ATP titles in an 11 year period?
- ...that the 91st Grey Cup was a Canadian football game in Regina, Saskatchewan that featured the Edmonton Eskimos and the Montreal Alouettes?
- ...that Kashima Antlers is the name of a professional football club in the Japanese J. League?
- ...that the first televised nine dart finish was achieved at the World Matchplay championship in 1984 by John Lowe?
- ...that "POP" is a nickname for Pacific Ocean Park, a 28 acre amusement park built on a pier at Santa Monica, California?
- ...that Graftgold is an independent computer games developer formed in 1983 when Steve Turner decided to quit his day job as a commercial programmer?
- ... that Thomas Middleton's 1624 play A Game at Chess was considered so scandalous that the Globe Theatre was closed and the actors and author were put on trial?
- ...that Recess (or playtime) in schools teaches children the importance of social skills and physical education?
- ...that the Arctic Winter Games are held biennially for athletes from the "circumpolar North"?
- ...that Clint Benedict was the first Ice hockey goalie to wear a protective facemask?
- ...that the Subservient Chicken is a viral marketing promotion by Burger King?
- ...that Bridgett Riley lost her contact lenses in the fifth round of a boxing match against Theresa Arnold on September 19, 1996, leading to her first ever defeat?
- ...that Westpac Stadium in Wellington, New Zealand is known colloquially as "The Cake-tin"?
- ...that playboating is a discipline of kayaking or canoeing where the paddler performs various technical moves in one place, as opposed to whitewater kayaking or canoeing where the objective is to travel the length of a section of river?
- ...that soccer player Paul Reaney was briefly a car mechanic before signing with Leeds United?
- ...that Johnny Temple became a sportscaster after he retired from Major League baseball?
2005
- ...that the Des Moines Register, "The Newspaper Iowa Depends Upon," ended its tradition of printing the sports sections on peach-colored paper in 1999?
- ...that the British ice hockey team The Blackburn Hawks are often referred to as the Blackhawks, and were briefly called the Lancashire Hawks?
- ...that the Sydney Riot of 1879 was one of international cricket's earliest riots?
- ...that one of international cricket's earliest riots occurred in Sydney in 1879?
- ...that Jeopardy!'s impact on culture has earned it references or parodies in no less than 64 feature films, and appearances on more than 10 television show episodes?
- ...that the highlight event of the World Cricket Tsunami Appeal is a 2-match ODI series between a World XI and an Asian XI?
- ...that Thomas Lord started Lord's Cricket Ground (right), the Home of Cricket in 1814?
- ...that an amateur baseball tournament held on August 16, 1933 in the Christie Pits, ended with Nazi-sympathisers unveiling a flag depicting a swastika?
- ... that John Frederick Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset was one of the most noted cricketers of the mid-to-late 18th century?
- ...that Andy the Clown performed at Chicago White Sox games for 30 years, outlasting an attempt to replace him with two new mascots?
- ...that Playland, often called Rye Playland, is America's only government owned and operated amusement park?
- ...that rugby player Wayne Shelford suffered a ripped scrotum during an All Blacks match against France?
- ... that professional wrestler Gorilla Monsoon grew a long beard and billed himself as a terrifying giant from Manchuria as a heel gimmick?
- ... that the only international cricket in South Africa between 1971 and 1981 comprised 6 private tours and 1 women's test match, because no test match playing nation was willing to tour the country because of its apartheid policy?
- ...that the earliest record of Gaelic handball is the 1527 town statutes of Galway, Ireland, which forbade the playing of ball games against the walls?
- ... that DONKEY.BAS was a computer game cowritten by Bill Gates and included with early versions of the PC DOS operating system for the original IBM PC, in which the player must avoid hitting donkeys?
- ...that fans in the Dawg Pound at Cleveland Browns Stadium used to throw dog food at opposing players?
- ...that the Florida Lottery's Lotto game was the first single-state lottery in the United States to have a jackpot over US$100 million, on the September 14, 1990 drawing?
- ... that the England football squad for the 1986 World Cup in Mexico contained two players called Gary Stevens?
- ...that England football captain Eddie Hapgood was forced by diplomats to give a Nazi salute before a match with Germany in 1938?
- ...that Stan Mortensen scored a hat-trick in the 1953 FA Cup Final at Wembley, becoming the first player ever to do so?
- ...that the sled dog Togo is considered one of the heroes commemorated by the Iditarod dog sled race held in the U.S. state of Alaska?
- ...that Nat Lofthouse was the England football team's highest goalscorer of all-time for eight years?
- ...that despite a sight-impairment disability, Carl G. Fisher became a notable American entrepreneur, who helped develop sealed beam headlights, the Lincoln Highway (the first U.S. transcontinental paved roadway), the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and the resort city of Miami Beach, Florida?
- ...that Dutch magician Fred Kaps was the only magician to win the magic world championship three times?
- ...that Barbarossa is an award-winning German-style board game by Klaus Teuber from 1988 in which the players have to sculpt plasticine to earn points?
- ...that Nils Liedholm is the last surviving member of the famous footballing Gre-No-Li trio?
- ...that Skyfox was one of the first games to popularize the cockpit view for flight action games?
- ...that the French footballer Lucien Laurent scored the first ever World Cup goal, against Mexico in 1930?
- ...that Will Harvey created his first commercial computer game when he was only 15 and still in high school?
- ...that the internet casino GoldenPalace.com won a bid to name a type of New World monkey: the GoldenPalace.com Monkey?
- ...that Queen's Gambit Accepted is a chess opening in which Black takes a White pawn after two moves, but is not a real gambit because Black cannot count on keeping his advantage?
- ...that the MCC beat Warwickshire in the first game of the 2005 English cricket season?
- ... that the F-Zero series of video games is renowned for its sheer visceral impression of speed?
- ...that although England centre forward Geoff Hurst had scored a hat-trick and was therefore entitled to keep the match ball, it was German striker Helmut Haller who took it home after the 1966 World Cup final?
- ...that Wilfredo Gomez and Wilfredo Benitez share not only their first name, but also their Puerto Rican nationality? They also won three world boxing titles each.
- ...that Ray Wilson, who was the eldest member of England's victorious 1966 World Cup team, became an undertaker after he retired from football?
- ...that Indian-born English cricketer Hugh Bartlett died whilst watching a cricket match at Hove in 1988?
- ...that footballer Antonín Panenka famously scored the winning penalty for Czechoslovakia in the 1976 European Championship final against West Germany by chipping the ball?
- ...that Australian tennis players Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde, known as The Woodies, are the most successful men's doubles pair in history, winning a record six Wimbledon titles?
- ... that Hampshire County Cricket Club has produced three English national cricket captains in its 141-year history?
- ... that the Chilean football club Cobreloa reached the finals of South America's principal club competition, the Copa Libertadores, in 1981, only four years after the club's founding?
- ... that Palwankar Baloo was a Dalit (also called Untouchable) who helped break down the Indian caste system with his prowess at cricket?
- ...that in the National Lacrosse League of North America, the Coach of the Year Award is named after the late Les Bartley?
- ...that Ralph Samuelson invented water skiing in 1922?
- ...that Scottish cyclist Robert Millar finished fourth in the 1984 Tour de France, the best ever finish by a British cyclist?
- ...that Buzzie Bavasi was the general manager of the Brooklyn & Los Angeles Dodgers for eighteen years, helping the team win their first four World Series championships?
- ...that some original sources on medieval hunting contain detailed instructions on how to capture a unicorn?
- ...that 11 of the 13 members of the Hong Kong cricket team died when their steamship, SS Bokhara, was lost in a typhoon in 1892?
- ...that Hollywood producer William Goetz's racehorse "Your Host" won the 1950 Santa Anita Derby?
- ...that American golfer Tony Lema died when the plane he was travelling in crashed into a golf course?
- ...that jockey Kent Desormeaux and his horse Real Quiet missed thoroughbred horse racing immortality by a few inches?
- ...that Norwegian football commentator Bjørge Lillelien famously taunted Margaret Thatcher after Norway's victory over England in 1981?
- ...that Nathaniel "Sweetwater" Clifton was the first African American to sign a contract to play in the National Basketball Association?
- ...that Swiss cyclist Hugo Koblet, a Tour de France winner and the first non-Italian to win the Giro d'Italia, died at age 39 under mysterious circumstances?
- ...that in the computer game Crush, Crumble and Chomp! the player controls a disaster movie monster and destroys cities?
- ...that Alan Mullery became the first England association football player to be sent off in a full international match during the 1968 European Championship semi-final against Yugoslavia?
- ...that the 1868 Aboriginal cricket tour of England predated, by 12 years, the first tour of England by white Australians?
- ... that the race car driver Kurt Mollekens won three Formula Ford titles in 1992?
- ...that the virtual economy of massively multiplayer online games sometimes attracts virtual crime, which is punishable by real laws in some countries?
- ...that Mick Mills was made captain of the England national football team which started the 1982 World Cup because Kevin Keegan was unable to play through injury?
- ...that Firpo Marberry was the first relief pitcher in Major League Baseball to record 100 saves in his career?
- ...that Bruce Webster was so burned out from writing the computer game SunDog: Frozen Legacy for the Apple II, that he gave up programming for four years?
- ...that former England footballer Mick Channon is now a successful horse trainer?
- ...that Marn Grook is the name of ball game played by Australian Aborginals which is thought to be the basis for the modern game of Australian Rules Football?
- ...that there have only been two tied Tests in the 128 years of Test cricket, both involving the Australian cricket team?
- ...that 1980's Rescue at Rigel by Epyx was one of the first science fiction computer role-playing games?
- ...that Andy Ducat suffered a heart attack and died whilst playing in a wartime cricket match and is the only person to have died during a cricket match on the Lord's Cricket Ground?
- ...that Frank Ryan earned a Ph.D. in mathematics while playing quarterback for the Cleveland Browns?
- ...that Johnny Rodgers was voted the University of Nebraska's college football "Player of the Century" and College Football News called him "the greatest kick returner in college football history"?
- ...that the Irish cricket team didn't become an official member of the International Cricket Council until 1993, despite having played first-class cricket matches since 1902, including games against Scotland, Australia and New Zealand?
- ...that Chris Woods cost Queens Park Rangers 250,000 pounds from Nottingham Forest in 1979 even though he had never played a League game before his transfer?
- ...that the Olympic Javelin is a high-speed rail service announced as part of the public transport regeneration of London in readiness for the 2012 Summer Olympics?
- ...that five teams in cricket's 2005 ICC Trophy will be granted official one-day international status for the next four years?
- ...that the last African American jockey to win the Kentucky Derby was James Winkfield in 1902?
- ...that the Minchiate was a deck of playing cards similar to the tarot, but with forty trumps?
- ...that although Archibald Leitch was the foremost football stadium architect in the United Kingdom in the early 20th century, only two of his works have been listed for preservation?
- ... that Simone Niggli-Luder from Switzerland won all four women's competitions at the orienteering world championships 2005 in Aichi, Japan, repeating her performance of 2003?
- ...that the Finnish speed skater Clas Thunberg is the oldest Olympic speed skating champion, winning gold at the 1928 St Moritz games at the age of 35?
- ...that the 1888/9 South African cricket season marks the beginning of first-class cricket in South Africa?
- ...that Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav was independent India's first individual Olympic medalist when he won the wrestling bronze medal at the 1952 Helsinki games?
- ...that Brendon Kuruppu was the first Sri Lankan cricketer to score more than 200 runs (a double century) in a Test innings?
- ...that Foundation 9 Entertainment is the largest independent video game developer in North America?
- ... that the Cotswold Games were organized by Robert Dover as a protest against Puritanism in the early 17th century?
- ...that Lancashire cricketer Dick Barlow was immortalised in Francis Thompson's poem "At Lord's"?
- ...that the leg break bowled by Shane Warne to Mike Gatting that turned around the 1993 Ashes cricket series is widely known as the Ball of the Century?
- ...that the Baltusrol Golf Club is a Certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary for its managing of its lands with concern to the environment?
- ... that 1999's Scooby Doo: Mystery of the Fun Park Phantom was the first commercial Scooby-Doo computer game for the Windows platform?
- ...that the Liga Indonesia is the top football league in Indonesia ?
- ...that the Thunderdome, the home of the basketball and volleyball teams of the University of California, Santa Barbara, is famous for a tortilla-throwing incident in a men's basketball game televised on ESPN?
- ...that the "Victory Tests" were a series of cricket matches between a team of Australian servicemen and an English national side played just two weeks after World War II ended?
- ...that American Wimbledon champion Alice Marble was shot in the back while working as a spy in Switzerland during World War II?
- ...that A. R. R. A. P. W. R. R. K. B. Amunugama has more initials than any other first-class cricketer?
- ...Sir Conrad Hunte was a West Indian cricketer who in 1965 set the record (550 runs) for the highest Test series aggregate score without scoring a century?
- ...that the Casino Goa in Goa is the only legal casino in India?
- ...that virtual plagues can infect and kill the characters in a massively multiplayer online role-playing game and are usually caused by unexpected problems with the programming code?
- ...that Maurice Tillet was disfigured by acromegaly from a young age, but cashed in on his appearance by becoming an early wrestler?
- ...that the first ever golden goal was scored in the Cromwell Cup final at Bramall Lane, Sheffield in 1868, giving Sheffield Wednesday a 1-0 victory?
- ...that Serbia and Montenegro and Italy were co-hosts of the 2005 European Volleyball Championship?
- ...that Australian swimmer Fanny Durack was considered to be the world's greatest female swimmer from 1910 until 1918?
- ...that there have been six Indian Ocean Island Games, the latest being held on the isle of Mauritius in 2003?
- ...that Jimmy Matthews is the only Test cricketer to have bowled two hat tricks in one match, a feat achieved during the 1912 Triangular Tournament in England?
- ...that Ruth Riley, an all-star center in the Women's National Basketball Association, also wrote a children's book?
- ...that retired indigenous Australian rules footballer Darryl White was once approached by a member of an opposing team before leaving the field immediately after a match for a photograph with his hero?
- ...that Jack Broughton was the first person to develop a set of rules for boxing?
- ...that, before Wayne Rooney made his debut in February 2003, England's youngest ever football player was James F. M. Prinsep, who had held the record for more than 123 years?
- ...that Eddie Gilbert was an Australian Aboriginal cricketer who bowled Don Bradman out for a duck during a match in 1933 and was later described by Bradman as the fastest bowler he'd ever faced?
- ...that teams in the International Basketball League scored nearly 130 points per game in its first season?
- ...that the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award is India's highest sporting honour?
- ...that former National Hockey League rookie Michel Briere's career was tragically cut short following an automobile accident in 1970?
- ...that the 2012 Summer Olympic Games will be the third London Olympics, and that no other city has hosted the games three times?
- ...that Herb Thomas was the first NASCAR race-car driver to win two championships in the modern NEXTEL Cup?
- ...that Tom Edur gave up a professional ice hockey career at the age of 24 to study Christianity?
- ...that the dummy of ventriloquist and magician Jay Marshall was actually his left hand dressed up as a rabbit?
- ...that the national sport of Nauru is Australian rules football?
- ...that Redline was the last game published by Accolade before being acquired by Infogrames in 1999?
- ...that Bill Ranford, who won the 1990 Conn Smythe Trophy as NHL playoff MVP, later appeared in the movie Miracle, as Team USA goaltender Jim Craig?
- ...that Euclid Beach Park, an amusement park in Cleveland, Ohio that was modelled after Coney Island, was home to a race riot in 1946?
- ...that Roger Lemerre has won the Football World Cup, European Football Championship, Confederations Cup and the African Nations Cup?
- ...that the Victorian parlour game of Snap-dragon involved children plucking raisins out of burning brandy and eating them?
- ...that Major League Cricket planned to launch a professional cricket league in the United States, with the goal of qualifying the U.S. for the Cricket World Cup by 2011?
- ...that in 1930, the footballer Gerard Keizer played for both Arsenal and Ajax Amsterdam simultaneously, flying between England and the Netherlands to play in matches?
- ...that 1980s video game publisher BudgeCo was formed to distribute just two games?
- ...that the Bombay Quadrangular cricket tournament originated in an 1877 game to foster interracial harmony, but was abandoned in 1946 over fears that its racial basis threatened Indian independence?
- ...that Raghib Ismail became the highest paid player in gridiron football history when he joined the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League?
- ...that the Combined Islands cricket team were dissolved the year after they won their first — and thus last — domestic trophy in West Indian cricket?
- ...that Chetan Sharma, a former Indian cricketer, was the first Indian ever to get a ten wicket haul overseas, taking 10/188 against England in a Test Series in 1986?
- ...that over 50 parents contacted Gonzaga University's athletic department on the first day that a Sports Illustrated issue featuring a story on Gonzaga basketball player Adam Morrison and his life with Type 1 diabetes was available at retail outlets?
- ...that F.I.B.S is the earliest backgammon server on the internet and has been actively operating since July 19, 1992?
- ...that the first person shooter computer game Requiem: Avenging Angel was influenced by the Bible and Christian Mythology?
- ...that Lake Nockamixon is the start of a whitewater kayaking course going through northern Bucks County, Pennsylvania?
- ...that the first Intercolonial cricket match in Australia was played in Launceston, Tasmania between players from Port Phillip and Van Diemen's Land in February 1851?
- ...that South African rebel tours was the name given to a series of cricket tours to South Africa during its isolation from international cricket in the 1980s due to apartheid?
- ...that Bill the Goat is the mascot of the United States Naval Academy who first appeared at a Navy football game in 1893?
- ...that in the past 5 years, Colin Campbell, a former ice hockey defenceman and coach, handed some of the longest suspensions in NHL history to Marty McSorley and Todd Bertuzzi?
- ...that Dan Syvret, a rookie ice hockey defenceman with the Edmonton Oilers, captained the record-breaking 2004-05 London Knights?
- ...that the Indian cricketer Chetan Chauhan stood in five elections to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian Parliament, winning two of them?
- ...that Mina Wylie won silver at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden, and was one of the first two women to represent Australia in Olympic swimming?
- ...that Mikhail Shtalenkov enjoyed a stellar career, including the win of a silver medal in hockey in the 1998 Winter Olympics, but never became a starting goaltender in the National Hockey League?
- ...that former National Hockey League player Jason Bonsignore is considered one of the worst draft choices in the history of the Edmonton Oilers?
- ...that the bootleg turn was invented by stock car racing legend Robert Glenn "Junior" Johnson?
- ...that Dimba was the top goalscorer of the 2003 Brazilian football championship?
- ...that Garo Yepremian was voted as Kicker of the Decade by the Pro Football Hall of Fame between 1970 and 1980?
- ...that Nottinghamshire and England cricketer Charles Wright was the first captain to declare an innings closed?
- ...that the former English football player Eric Brook is the all-time record goalscorer for Manchester City F.C. with 178 goals?
- ...the chess Grandmaster Wolfgang Uhlmann is one of the world's leading experts on the French Defence?
- ...that the Indian cricketer Bapu Nadkarni got the nickname Bapu—literally, father, and Mahatma Gandhi's sobriquet—for the curious reason that he used to wear loincloths (langotis) instead of modern underwear?
- ...that Negro League catcher Biz Mackey was regarded in his prime as superior to Josh Gibson, won two batting titles, and mentored the young Roy Campanella?
- ...that the race horse Flockton Grey did not even run in the race for which it is best remembered?
- ...that Cuban boxer Kid Charol fought former world middleweight champion Dave Chade and held him to a twelve-round draw despite being in critical condition due to tuberculosis?
- ...that Guyana won the first senior regional cricket tournament of the 2005-06 West Indian cricket season?
- ...that 1956 was the first time when a computer was able to play a chess-like game, Los Alamos chess?
- ...that basketball coach Bob Knight told a radio program that if he had not been fired from Indiana University in 2000, he would have fired his assistant Mike Davis, who replaced him as IU coach?
- ...that César Sampaio is a former Brazilian football player who played offensive midfielder for Palmeiras and the Brazilian national team?
- ...that footballer Alan Taylor scored two goals in the quarter final, two goals in the semi final and two goals in the final of the 1975 FA Cup as his club West Ham United won the competition?
- ...that Christine Witty is both a speed skater and a cyclist who has won three Olympic medals in speed skating and holds the 1000-metre world record?
2006
- ...that Hall of Fame jockey Tod Sloan was the "Yankee Doodle" in the George M. Cohan Broadway musical "Little Johnny Jones" and the basis for Ernest Hemingway's short story "My Old Man"?
- ...that amateur wrestling Olympic gold medalist Robin Reed could pin every member of the 1924 United States Olympic wrestling team, despite being in the second lowest weight class?
- ...that Shane Warne Cricket '99, a PlayStation cricket game is endorsed by the Australian bowler, Shane Warne?
- ...that Michael Bates was an Olympic bronze medalist sprinter and a Pro Bowl American football player?
- ...that Deportivo Táchira Fútbol Club is the Venezuelan soccer club with the most appearances in the Copa Libertadores?
- ...that quarterback Bill Kenney is the only player named Mr. Irrelevant (an "award" traditionally given to the last selection of the NFL Draft) to appear in the Pro Bowl?
- ...that in 1911 baseball player Ed Konetchy and the St. Louis Cardinals were involved in a train wreck that killed 12 and injured 47, and Konetchy and manager Roger Bresnahan led the rescue effort?
- ...that Tegernsee Abbey in Bavaria was founded by the nobleman Otkar, supposedly after his son had been killed during a game of chess by the son of King Pippin III with the chessboard?
- ...that Australian sprinter Stanley Rowley is the only Olympic participant to win medals for two countries at the same Olympic Games?
- ...that Chester Racecourse is the oldest horse racing course in England, built on the site of a blocked harbour in 1533?
- ...that Paul Posluszny, a linebacker for Penn State's football team, was recently named college football's best defensive player of the year?
- ...that although there are 75 West Indian women who have played one-day international cricket, only 54 of them have represented the West Indies?
- ...that the first Australian national sporting team to wear the now traditional green and gold team colours were the Australian cricket team that toured England in 1899?
- ...that Earl Morrall was named the NFL's Most Valuable Player in 1968, after replacing the injured Johnny Unitas, and led the Colts into Super Bowl III?
- ...that by the time American football player Nat Moore retired in 1986, he had broken almost every receiving record of the Miami Dolphins?
- ...that a dead-rubber is a term used in sporting parlance to describe a match in a series where the series result has already been decided by earlier matches?
- ...that the real name of the G.I. Joe character Dusty is Ronald W. Tadur?
- ...that James Foster was a Scottish-born Canadian goalie who helped lead Great Britain to its first and only Olympic gold medal in ice hockey in 1936?
- ...that the heavyweight champion boxer Thomas King became a successful bookmaker and rower after his retirement from the ring in 1863?
- ...that in 1860 Thomas Sayers became the first English boxer to fight an international match?
- ...that the 1st and Ten System creates the yellow line seen on American football telecasts which shows where a team will earn a first down?
- ...that basketball player Mike Gansey is the only men's player in NCAA Division I shorter than 6 ft. 5 in. to figure in USA's top 50 in field-goal percentage for the 2005-06 season?
- ...that the R-100 Series is a series of fictional mass-produced robots which have featured in every TimeSplitters game created?
- ...that New York Giants quarterback Phil Simms was the first player to announce "I'm Going to Disney World!" after a Super Bowl?
- ...that the Ancient Romans played a game called Trigon, which likely involved three players standing in a triangle and passing a hard ball back and forth?
- ...that only three Super Rugby rugby union teams ever won the Super 12?
- ...that Mazhar Hussain has scored more runs in one-day international cricket then any other United Arab Emirates batsman?
- ...that George Mason University basketball coach Jim Larranaga motivated his players in their 2006 NCAA regional final by telling them their opponents from the University of Connecticut didn't know what conference they were in?
- ...that Deneb is the only character to appear in all four of Quest's video games in the Ogre Battle series?
- ...that in the 26 uses of the Page playoff system in championship curling tournaments, only once has a third- or fourth-placed team won the tournament?
- ...that Marcos Daniel is the highest placed Brazilian tennis player on ATP's ranking despite not winning any official ATP tournament?
- ...that diamond magnate Woolf Barnato won the 24 Hours of Le Mans three times, and in 1930 won a race across France in his Bentley against Le Train Bleu?
- ...that Commander Edwin Taylor Pollock became the first American governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands by beating the commander of the USS Olympia in a race to Saint Thomas?
- ...that the White House Tee Ball Initiative was created by President George W. Bush to promote baseball and softball by allowing youth Tee Ball events on the grounds of the White House in 2001?
- ...that Tony Saunders was the first player selected in the expansion draft when Major League Baseball added teams in 1997?
- ... that a 1906 football match between a team of youngsters from Kraków and the troupe of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show is one of the milestones in the history of football in Poland?
- ...that a recent cricket match saw the record for highest team total for a single innings in One-day Internationals broken by both the teams, and has been called the greatest ODI match ever by much of the cricket media?
- ...that Hakeem Olajuwon was the last player to be named Most Outstanding Player of the NCAA men's basketball tournament while playing for a team that failed to win the title, earning the honor in the 1983 tournament?
- ...that the Daytona Beach Road Course was the site of fifteen world land speed records, and the course was instrumental in the formation of NASCAR?
- ...that the Great Rose Bowl Hoax was a 1961 prank by students at the California Institute of Technology that was broadcast by NBC to an estimated 30 million viewers in the United States?
- ...that Jerry Reuss was one of a few players in Major League Baseball history to play in four different decades?
- ...that Ramy Brooks, a competitor in the 1,049 mi 2006 Iditarod dog sled race across Alaska, is one of the few Native Alaskans competing in the event?
- ...that Tom Cousineau was drafted first overall in the 1979 NFL Draft by the Buffalo Bills, but never played a game with them?
- ...that Clarence L. "Biggie" Munn was Michigan State University's most successful football coach with a winning percentage of 85.7 over seven years, including a 28-game winning streak from October 14, 1950 through October 17, 1953?
- ...that Italo Santelli is widely considered to be the "father of modern sabre fencing"?
- ...that Bill Ashdown is the only person to have played first-class cricket both before the First World War and after the Second World War?
- ...that in Miller v. Jackson the Court of Appeal of England and Wales found that a cricket club was liable in negligence and nuisance when sixes were hit over the boundary onto neighbouring property, and that it is best known for the lyrical dissenting judgment of Lord Denning, MR?
- ...that pitcher-outfielder Clint Hartung was hyped as Cooperstown-bound but played so poorly for the New York Giants that his name has become synonymous with rookies who flop?
- ...that Protmušis is a quizbowl competition that has been taking place in Vilnius, Lithuania since 1997?
- ...that a pioneer automobile manufacturer, August Duesenberg, went bankrupt after his failure to sell his first mass produced vehicle, although his race cars had won seven of the first ten places in the 1920 Indianapolis 500-mile race?
- ...that Robin Philipson, former President of the Royal Scottish Academy, was particularly renowned for his cockfight paintings?
- ...that the Birdsville Races in Queensland, Australia used to have separate races for horses that ate grass and those that ate corn?
- ... that Hugh Green received the Walter Camp Award and the Lombardi Award, and was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1996?
- ... that Will Jefferson is probably the tallest professional cricketer ever, at about 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) tall?
- ... that the 2005-06 World Sevens Series in rugby sevens will be the first in seven seasons of the competition to be won by a team other than New Zealand?
- ...that canoe racer Josefa Idem, a 1984 Olympic bronze medalist for West Germany, later took an Italian citizenship and became the first female Olympic medalist in canoeing for her new country?
- ...that Raul Macias, a Cuban-Mexican boxer parlayed his popularity into a successful career in telenovelas?
- ...that the flèche is an aggressive fencing attack generally used with the foil and épée weapons, and is actually illegal to use with the sabre under USFA rules?
- ...that Nig Cuppy, having scored five runs against the Chicago Colts on August 9 1895, holds the record for most runs scored by a pitcher in a major league baseball game?
- ...that the Capitoline Games of Ancient Rome became so popular that the Romans counted periods of time by them, rather than their previous unit of lustrum?
- ...that Ilsa Konrads, former editor of Belle, was an Australian Olympic swimmer who set 12 world records?
- ...that the circulation of major Soviet sports newspaper Sovetsky Sport has declined from 5,000,000 in 1988 to 122,903 in 2006?
- ...that the 1996 season of the Super 12 was the first season of professional rugby union in the southern hemisphere following a US$550,000,000 deal between SANZAR and News Corporation?
- ...that Dutch football manager Clemens Westerhof is credited with turning the Nigerian national team into a perennial powerhouse in African football, having guided them to victory in the 1992 African Cup of Nations as well as their first FIFA World Cup participation in 1994?
- ...that Garry Parker ran the full length of the pitch at Wembley Stadium to score a goal for Nottingham Forest in the final of the Simod Cup against Everton in 1989, which Forest won 4-3?
- ...that Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, President of the Republic of Kalmykia and head of the World Chess Federation, built the multi-million dollar Chess City complex for hosting international chess tournaments?
- ...that Richie Evans holds the record for the most NASCAR championships with nine NASCAR Modified championships, including his posthumous championship in 1985, the first year of the Whelen Modified Tour?
- ...that Harold Hardwick, an Australian swimming gold medallist at the 1912 Olympics, was also a national boxing champion and later an army colonel?
- ...that tent pegging is one of only ten equestrian disciplines officially recognised by the International Equestrian Federation?
- ...that Jim Roper was credited with NASCAR's first Strictly Stock (now NEXTEL Cup) win after apparent winner Glenn Dunnaway was found to have illegally modified springs?
- ...that Duke Kahanamoku won the 100m freestyle at the 1912 Olympics after the eventual silver medallist Cecil Healy lobbied against Duke's semifinal disqualification for turning up late?
- ...that Battlefield Baseball, a Japanese film, features elements of the sports, martial arts and horror genres, as well as including three musical numbers?
- ...that Dominican baseball player Tetelo Vargas led the Dominican Republic's winter baseball league in 1952, hitting for an average of .350 at the age of 46?
- ...that John Konrads, an Olympic gold-medal winning swimmer who set 26 individual world records, later became the Australasian director of L'Oréal?
- ...that the Agony of Doha is a term used by fans of the Japanese national football team to refer to the 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification match where Japan lost its World Cup place to South Korea?
- ...that John Davies, the U.S. District Court judge who presided over the trial of a group of LAPD officers in the Rodney King incident, won gold for Australia in the 200m breaststroke at the 1952 Olympics?
- ...that Hulk Hogan's Pastamania was a restaurant located in the Mall of America and created by the WWE's Hulk Hogan, and that it failed spectacularly?
- ...that the movie The Iron Ladies is based on a real-life team of transsexuals and homosexuals that won the Thai national volleyball tournament?
- ...that Kevin O'Halloran, a swimming gold medallist at the 1956 Summer Olympics, died after accidentally tripping and shooting himself?
- ...that tickets bought for the ceremonial opening of Kiev Republican Stadium scheduled for June 22, 1941 were still valid 7 years later, as the event was "postponed until after the Victory" due to the Nazi invasion to the USSR?
- ...that bowls player Willie Wood was the first athlete to compete in 7 Commonwealth Games, despite being barred from the 1986 games in his home country of Scotland for refusing to reclassify as an amateur?
- ...that disqualification protests were lodged against Clare Dennis, the winner of the 200 m breaststroke at the 1932 Summer Olympics, on the grounds of her "inappropriate" costume, which exposed her shoulderblades?
- ...that Sara Christian was the first woman to compete in a NASCAR race, the only woman to have a Top Five finish, and the recipient of the 1949 United States Drivers's Association Woman Driver of the Year award?
- ...that the International Cricket Council awarded Australia and New Zealand the hosting rights to the 2015 Cricket World Cup because they were sufficiently impressed with their 2011 bid which lost to Asia by 7 votes?
- ...that David Clyde was the first person selected in the 1973 MLB Draft and signed to a $125,000 bonus, the highest bonus ever given to a draft pick at the time?
- ...that Frank Beaurepaire, a Lord Mayor of Melbourne, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly and multi-millionaire tyre businessman was a six-time Olympic medallist in swimming who set 15 world records in his swimming career?
- ...that Michelle Ford was the first woman to win individual swimming medals at the Olympics in two distinct specialized strokes?
- ...that Cedric Griffin, the only University of Texas football player ever to return a blocked field goal for a touchdown, was drafted by the Minnesota Vikings?
- ...that John Devitt was awarded a gold medal in the 100m freestyle at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome despite all three timekeepers awarding a faster time to the silver medallist?
- ...that Alevtina Kolchina was the first female Nordic skier and first person from the Soviet Union (now Russia) to receive the Holmenkollen medal in 1963?
- ...that during Jake Gaither's tenure as head football coach at Florida A&M University, his teams won twenty-two Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championships and six Black College National Championships?
- ...that the "Cold War", held in MSU's Spartan Stadium (pictured), was the most-attended ice hockey game in history?
- ...that the Congressional Country Club is one of the 100 Greatest Golf Courses as ranked by Golf Digest and it will host its third United States Open in 2011?
- ...that 3D Construction Kit, a utility for creating 3D worlds in Freescape, typically ran at one frame per second on the Commodore 64?
- ...that Corné Krige and George Gregan, who respectively captained the South Africa and Australia rugby union teams in both the 2002 and 2003 Tri Nations Series, were born in the same hospital in Zambia?
- ...that Rugby union is considered the national sport of Fiji?
- ...that professional ice hockey player Duncan MacPherson disappeared in 1989 at the age of 23, and was found dead 15 years later on a mountain in Austria?
- ...that when NASCAR driver David Gilliland won his first career Busch Series race in 2006, driving for an unsponsored part-time team, commentator Hermie Sadler called it "the biggest upset in Busch Series history"?
- ...that Czech basketball player George Zidek is the younger of the only father-and-son pair to have each played in European club basketball title games?
- ...that people protested outside NASCAR's headquarters after African-American driver Bobby Norfleet was not allowed to qualify for a 2000 Craftsman Truck Series race at Pikes Peak International Raceway?
- ...that one of the shotguns used by the all-male pep squad RUF/NEKS of the University of Oklahoma during football games is displayed in the Smithsonian Institution?
- ...that Australian boxer Jim Hall was buried in an unmarked grave, apparently to elude the man to whom he had sold his skeleton?
- ...that three trophies are given to the winner of the annual Red River Shootout, one of college football's oldest rivalry games, played between the Texas Longhorns and the Oklahoma Sooners?
- ...that Microsoft chose Motorsports Hall of Fame of America inductee Chris Economaki to author the auto racing history portion of its Encarta encyclopedia?
- ...that John Roberts was an Australian businessman who founded the construction company Multiplex, which built the new Wembley Stadium in London?
- ...that former movie actress Vera Ralston personally insulted Adolf Hitler in the 1936 Winter Olympics, and won a silver medal?
- ...that Australian Olympic medal-winning swimmer Gary Chapman died in a fishing accident, after retiring from swimming to pursue this very hobby?
- ...that NASCAR driver Stephen Leicht, who started racing at age 7, was unable to participate in go-karting for 6 months after rupturing his spleen in an accident at age 11?
- ...that racecar driver Stan Fox barely survived a crash in the 1995 Indy 500, but later died in a head-on collision on New Zealand's North Island?
- ...that the film BloodSpell, licensed under Creative Commons, is the first feature-length production made using the computer game Neverwinter Nights?
- ...that Eton College owns its own rowboat manufacturer, Eton Racing Boats?
- ...that the fog which filled the stadium during the 2006 Super 14 Final forced some spectators to leave the match and watch it elsewhere, just to see the players?
- ...that Super Robot Wars: Original Generation, a strategy game featuring characters from major mecha animes, was originally never planned to be released in the United States due to licensing complications?
- ...that a bridge-playing robot managed to defeat two reigning European bridge champions?
- ...that informal cricket games often replace the original cricket ball with a tape covered tennis ball known as the tape ball?
- ...that American Jackson Haines is considered the father of modern figure skating?
- ...that the 2004 Texas Longhorn football team made college football history by being the first team to ever win the Rose Bowl Game as time ran off the clock?
- ...that former Australian Olympic swimming coach Forbes Carlile is the only person to have coached and later competed at the Olympic Games?
- ...that the 1960 Summer Olympics champion heavyweight weightlifter Yury Vlasov was a candidate in the Russian presidential election, 1996 but received only 0.02% of the vote?
- ... that Christopher Maude Chavasse was an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, a Bishop of Rochester, and an Olympic athlete?
- ...that there has been criticism of Pokémon due to the similarity between the original Jynx character design and blackface images?
- ...that former Major League Baseball catcher Mackey Sasser was known for his difficulty throwing the ball back to the pitcher when he was behind the home plate?
- ...that although the last game in the Battle Isle series was released in 2001, there is an open source project, Advanced Strategic Command, to recreate the series?
- ...that Boy Charlton won gold in the 1500m freestyle at the 1924 Olympics despite his coach jumping overboard on the sea voyage to Europe?
- ...that the first professional football team, The Zulus, was established in Sheffield, England in 1879?
- ...that the 1990 Women's World Ice Hockey Championships was the only World Championship to permit bodychecking in women's ice hockey?
- ...that Red Man, one of the leading U.S. brands of chewing tobacco, has been especially successful in marketing itself with rural sporting events?
- ...that in 1935, English cricketer Betty Snowball scored 189 runs against New Zealand in the fourth ever women's Test match, setting a world record that was not beaten for over 50 years?
- ...that Nicole Manske of Speed Channel and auto racer Danica Patrick were on the same cheerleading squad at their high school in Rockton, Illinois?
- ...that Olympic pair skating champions Andrée Brunet and Pierre Brunet refused to defend their title at the 1936 Winter Olympics because Nazi Germany was hosting the Games?
- ...that at the end of his 13-match first class cricket career, John Howarth had a batting average of 0.00, setting a new world record and leading to him being dubbed one of cricket's worst batsmen?
- ...that in 2003 Erin Crocker became the first woman to qualify for the Knoxville Nationals sprint car race?
- ... that the WWE Video Library has an archive of over 75,000 hours of footage dating back more than fifty years, representing a very significant portion of the visual history of modern professional wrestling?
- ...that cow fighting, unlike bull fighting, is a sport that does not have human participants but is fought between cows, and that it often does not include any physical contact?
- ...that prior to the 1916 college football season, John R. Bender and Hall-of-Famer Zora G. Clevenger in effect traded jobs as head coach at Kansas State University and the University of Tennessee?
- ...that the Florida mangroves are vital to an estimated 75 percent of the game fish and 90 percent of the commercial fish species in South Florida?
- ...that there is a long history of animals in sport, ranging from common horse racing and fox hunting events to the more unusual rabbit show jumping and camel wrestling competitions?
- ...that Thai boxer Pongsaklek Wonjongkam holds the flyweight division records for fastest knockout (34 seconds) and consecutive title defenses (15)?
- ...that Austrian figure skater Herma Szabo practiced on the first artificial ice rink ever made, and went on to win five world championships?
- ...that the Oklahoma Aquarium has the world's largest collection of antique fishing tackle, with over 20,000 pieces?
- ...that in 1908 Nikolai Panin became Russia's first Olympic champion by winning the figure skating special figures event, the only year in which it was an Olympic event?
- ...that the highest scoring word in Scrabble is OXYPHENBUTAZONE, which uses a bingo, and can theoretically score 1778 in one go?
- ... that NASCAR driver-turned-broadcaster Phil Parsons is the (16 years) younger brother of 1973 Winston Cup champion Benny Parsons?
- ...that Bennie Owen introduced the forward pass to the southwestern United States as head coach of the Oklahoma Sooners football team?
- ..that the Gay Football Supporters Network recently voted Steven Gerrard top of their annual "Lust List" for the second year running?
- ...that Mixmath is a Canadian board game similar to Scrabble, in which numbered tiles are played to form equations instead of letters forming words?
- ...that on August 26, 2006 the Philippines won the inaugural World Cup of Pool held at Newport, Wales?
- ...that one fan's elaboration of Quake's plot became the nearly four-hour film The Seal of Nehahra, the longest work of machinima at the time?
- ...that Harbhajan Singh was rewarded with an offer to become the Deputy Superintendent of Punjab police after becoming the first Indian cricketer to take a Test hat-trick?
- ...that the Minus Cube mechanical puzzle, first manufactured in the Soviet Union, is a 3D variant of the 15-puzzle?
- ...that mobile phone throwing is an international sport in which thrown mobile phones are judged by the distance and choreographics of the throw?
- ...that Fernando Alonso became the youngest Grand Prix champion after winning the 2003 Hungarian Grand Prix?
- ...that Parthiv Patel had never played domestic first-class cricket prior to becoming the youngest Test Wicketkeeper in history at just 17 years and 102 days?
- ...that the 2003 British Grand Prix was disrupted when defrocked Catholic priest Neil Horan ran into the path of the oncoming cars?
- ...that Fernando Alonso became the youngest ever polesitter and first ever Spaniard to attain a podium finish at the 2003 Malaysian Grand Prix?
- ...that freestyle wrestler William Kerslake, who competed in three Olympiads and got a gold medal at the 1955 Pan American Games, was also a NASA engineer and co-inventor of the first ion thruster for space propulsion?
- ...that Gibbon's Tennis Court, a Tudor-style real tennis court converted into a theatre in 1660, was home to one of the earliest appearances by a professional actress in England?
- ...that a fielder in cricket may only alter the ball condition by removing mud, drying or polishing it without use of a artificial substance, else he is guilty of ball tampering?
- ...that when it opened in 1999, Casino Sault Ste. Marie was Northern Ontario's first full-time charity casino?
- ...that the Heartland Championship and the Air New Zealand Cup have replaced the National Provincial Championship in New Zealand rugby union?
- ...that Indian Test cricketer Shanthakumaran Sreesanth was previously a national break dancing champion of India?
- ...that Walt Neubrand is one of three men responsible for the safety of the National Hockey League's Stanley Cup during its travels around the world?
- ... that Orlov trotters were the fastest racing horses of Europe until they were superseded by American standardbreds in the 1870s?
- ...that Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh is the son of former cricketer-turned-Punjabi actor Yograj Singh?
- ...that a gymslip is a sleeveless tunic commonly associated with British schoolgirls and sportswomen of the early 20th century?
- ...that 2006 World Series of Poker champion Jamie Gold has worked as an agent for actors such as James Gandolfini, Jimmy Fallon, Lucy Liu, and Felicity Huffman?
- ...that George William Smith not only represented New Zealand in both codes of rugby football but was also a successful athlete winning fourteen national titles as a sprinter and hurdler?
- ...that the USA Hawks are one of two national representative rugby union teams from the United States, and lost 0-98 in their inaugural North America 4 game against Canada West?
- ...that a noose hanging beside a hole at the Oak Tree Golf Club in Oklahoma was donated symbolically by a frustrated golfer, but was removed because of perceived racist undertones?
- ...that stadiums such as Sydney's Telstra Stadium and Paris' Stade de France use movable seating to change the layout of the playing area to allow for a wider variety of sports?
- ...that Max McGee is a former American Football wide receiver who assisted the Green Bay Packers to five NFL championship wins and scored the first touchdown in Super Bowl history?
- ...that the 1950 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, the first world skiing championships of the International Ski Federation held outside Europe, took place in Lake Placid in the United States ?
- ... that the opening theory of backgammon underwent profound changes after self-teaching robots were analyzed playing the game?
- ...that Frederick Lorz was greeted as the winner of the 1904 Summer Olympics marathon but later admitted to having travelled by car for ten miles of the race?
- ...that the English footballer David Layne scored 58 goals in 81 games for Sheffield Wednesday F.C. before he was jailed for his involvement in the British betting scandal of 1964?
- ...that the 2006 Kapa O Pango controversy is due to a throat-slitting gesture at the end of the All Blacks traditional haka performance?
- ...that two-time International Motor Sports Association champion Steve Millen was only able to compete in three of four IROC races in 1995 before he suffered a career ending injury at Road Atlanta?
- ...that the rules of Swedish football played in the late 19th century were a mix of association football rules and the rugby football rules because of a misunderstanding?
- ...that Sheffield Wednesday Ladies F.C. were formed at the Star Inn public house in Rotherham during 1971 following a charity match between men and women at the pub?
- ...that the “Deluxe” version of Outrage! is the most expensive board game in the world?
- ...that Giles Pellerin, known as the Super Fan, attended 797 consecutive USC football games over a period of 73 years?
- ... that cricket was introduced to Slovenia in 1974 by a 13-year-old boy who had visited his pen pal in England and brought back a single bat and a copy of the Laws?
- ...that racehorse Lil E. Tee, who was deemed so worthless that even an auction company rejected him as unsaleable, won the 1992 Kentucky Derby?
- ...that Joseph Maca played on the United States men's national soccer team in the 1950 FIFA World Cup even though he wasn't a U.S. citizen?
- ...that the Blood In The Water match was one of the most famous matches in water polo history, and was won by Hungary after the match was stopped in the final minutes following crowd trouble?
- ...that in 1935, David Townsend was the last England Test cricketer not to have played for one of the English first-class cricket counties?
- ...that Charlie Williams, one of the first black football players in Britain after the Second World War and later Britain's first well-known black comedian, responded to heckling by saying: "If you don't shut up, I'll come and move in next door to you"?
- ...that the 2003 aggressive skating video game Rolling featured a roster of professional skaters including Fabiola da Silva and Brian Shima?
- ...that at 7'3" (2.21 m), Swede Halbrook became the tallest person to ever play college basketball when he joined the Oregon State Beavers in 1954?
- ...that three years after being arrested for dealing in cocaine, former quarterback of the Oklahoma Sooners Charles Thompson managed to win a national championship with Central State University?
- ...that Brian Cappelletto won the World Scrabble Championship in 2001 but has not played in the event since?
- ...that twirling is a key component of many artforms, hobbies, and sports where an object, such as a pen, baton or stick is spun or rotated to achieve the desired effect?
- ...that Merv Wood, a single sculls gold medallist and the only person to twice be Australian flagbearer at the Summer Olympics, later became the Police Commissioner of New South Wales?
- ...that Estonian Margus Hunt won two gold medals at the 2006 World Junior Championships in Athletics, setting a world junior record in discus throw and a national junior record in shot put?
- ...that Bobby Pearce won the single sculls at the 1928 Summer Olympics despite stopping mid-race for a passing flock of ducks?
- ...that Brian Boitano narrowly won the Battle of the Brians, a 1988 Winter Olympics figure skating rivalry between two elite skaters named Brian?
- ...that former Queensland House of Assembly member Tom Veivers was an Australian test cricketer?
- ...that the MacRobertson International Croquet Shield is the premier croquet teams event in the world and the 2006 series will be held in Australia in November?
- ...that cyclist Gerald Ciolek became the youngest ever German National Cycling Champion, aged just 18 in 2005?
- ...that Barbadian cricketer Sir Clyde Walcott became the first non-English and non-white chairman of the International Cricket Council in 1993?
- ...that on Mother's Day, May 14, 2006, the Louisville Slugger Company produced more than 400 pink baseball bats for game use by more than 50 professional baseball players?
- ...that the father and two brothers of Pakistani cricketer Wasim Raja also played first-class cricket?
- ...that former major league baseball pitcher Terry Forster recorded a novelty song called "Fat Is In" after he was referred to as a "fat tub of goo" on Late Night With David Letterman?
- ...that Homer Mensch, the double bassist who played the theme for Jaws, originally wanted to be a tennis player?
- ...that Punjabi film-star Yograj Singh was a former Test cricketer and father of current Indian batsman Yuvraj Singh?
- ...that the 2000 Black Coaches Association Classic was postponed by an electrical storm during which lightning struck ESPN broadcaster Lee Corso's rental car?
- ...that Ian Craig, the youngest ever Australian test cricketer and captain, later became the managing director of Boots pharmaceutical company?
- ...that Australian cricket captain Brian Booth also represented Australia at the 1956 Summer Olympics in hockey?
- ... that Matthew Robinson, older brother of Baseball Hall of Fame member Jackie Robinson, was a world-class sprinter and won a silver medal in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin?
- ... that speed skater Joey Cheek was the first person to officially play the online game Darfur is Dying?
- ...that Lee McClung, a College Football Hall of Famer, also served as Treasurer of the United States, advocating the withdrawal of worn, dirty banknotes on sanitary grounds?
- ...that the Challenge Yves du Manoir, a French Rugby union competition which ran from 1931 to 2003, was created by Racing Club de France with the support of CA Bordeaux-Bègles Gironde and AS Montferrandaise?
- ... that Ohio State linebacker James Laurinaitis, the son of professional wrestler Road Warrior Animal, is the first Buckeyes scholarship football player from Minnesota since 1933?
- ... that the World's Largest Texas Flag, measuring 23 metres by 38 metres (75 feet by 125 feet), is unfurled on the field by members of Alpha Phi Omega before Texas Longhorn football games?
- ...that last week's first-ever football meeting between the University of Miami and Florida International University was marred by a massive brawl that led to the suspension of 31 players?
- ...that the 1989 Glasnost Bowl was an attempt to schedule an American college football game in the Soviet Union?
- ...that Swedish goalkeeper Karl Svensson was given his nickname Rio-Kalle after two heroic matches in the 1950 FIFA World Cup that were actually played in São Paulo and not in Rio de Janeiro?
- ...that British athlete Don Thompson was nicknamed "Il Topolino" (Italian for "Little Mouse") when he raced to victory in the 50km walk at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome while wearing a képi and sunglasses ?
- ...that athlete Gretel Bergmann left Germany for America because she was discriminated against for being Jewish, and that she refused to return to attend festivities when the Berlin-Wilmersdorf sports complex was named in her honour?
- ...that New Zealand Test cricketer Martin Donnelly also played rugby union for England?
- ... that Ed Brown was an African-American slave who rose to become a Belmont Stakes-winning jockey and a Kentucky Derby-winning horse trainer?
- ...that 51 nations participated in the FIBA World Championship as of the 2006 tournament?
- ...that, during the summer of four captains in 1988, Chris Cowdrey became only the second son to follow his father as captain of the English cricket team?
- ...that Asif Hossain Khan, a Commonwealth Games gold medal winner at the age of just 15, was brutally beaten and seriously injured by the police of his own country?
- ...that Kanken Toyama, who developed the Shudokan school of karate, was originally an elementary school teacher?
- ...that Heinie Reitz was the first Major League baseballer to die in a car accident?
- ...that Australian Cricket Academy leg spin coach Terry Jenner was previously jailed for embezzlement?
- ...that American Thoroughbred Kingston won eighty-nine races, the most by any horse?
- ...that Irving Crane pocketed 150 balls in a row in the final round of the 1966 World Crown straight pool championship; a feat that has never been equalled or eclipsed?
- ...that Thoroughbred racehorse Gallant Man lost the 1957 Kentucky Derby by a nose after his jockey stood up to celebrate?
- ...that the breeding rights for the Thoroughbred racehorse Graustark sold for a record $2,400,000?
- ...that the Thoroughbred racehorse Sarazen won the United States Horse of the Year Award for two consecutive years in the 1920s?
- ...that Wyoming Seminary, a private school in Kingston, Pennsylvania, participated in the first nighttime American football game in 1892?
- ...that the South Korean long track speed skater Lee Kyou-hyuk has held the 1500 m world record, despite never winning a World Cup event or an Olympic medal at the distance?
- ...that the New York Sports Express, a free weekly newspaper designed to take a lighter look at sports, lasted only a little over one year on the hurried streets of New York City?
- ...that Australian Test cricketers Mark Waugh and Shane Warne were fined after accepting money from an Indian bookmaker known only as "John" in return for pitch and weather reports?
- ... that English lower-league football team Bristol Rovers once beat the Netherlands national football team 3-2?
- ...that the Irish Thoroughbred Noor was the first racehorse ever to defeat two U.S. Triple Crown champions?
- ...that Blair Cherry was the first high-school football coach in Texas history to lead his team to three consecutive state championships?
- ...that Stan McCabe, who once caused a cricket Test to be abandoned in poor visibility due to the danger his hard-hitting posed to the fielding team, died after falling off a cliff?
- ...that Forward Pass, an American Thoroughbred racehorse, was the only horse in the history of the Kentucky Derby to have been declared the winner as the result of a disqualification?
- ...that Y Clwb Rygbi was the first Welsh language television programme to win a Royal Television Society Sports Award?
- ...that, subject to the resolution of litigation, Slovenian basketball player Miha Zupan will become the first deaf player to compete in Europe's principal club competition, the Euroleague?
- ...that the Warrior arcade game is considered to be the first versus fighting game and was released over a decade before the genre became popular?
- ...that Indian chess player Umakant Sharma was banned from playing competitive chess for 10 years after being caught cheating with a Bluetooth device sewn into his cap?
- ...that retired Spanish road bicycle racer Igor González de Galdeano holds the record for the fastest stage win in the Vuelta a España at an average of 55.17 kph, a feat which earned him the nickname Speedy González?
- ...that the site of SSAWS, once the world's largest indoor ski slope, now hosts Japan's first IKEA superstore?
- ...that 22-year-old Indian cricketer Vikram Singh, regarded by many as the fastest bowler in India, played only 5 matches for his state before being selected for the national squad against Sri Lanka?
- ...that in 1967, Mac Hack became the first computer chess program to defeat a person in tournament play?
- ...that the 1929 Chicago Cubs outfield composed of Riggs Stephenson, Hack Wilson and Kiki Cuyler was the only complete outfield in Major League Baseball history to each drive in over 100 runs in the same season?
- ...that Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Guy Bush gave up Babe Ruth's last two career home runs on May 25, 1935, just five days before Ruth retired?
- ...that only one horse in the International Special horse races was born outside the United States?
- ...that the two fundamental reference points in the rowing stroke are the catch where the oar blade is placed in the water, and the extraction (also known as the 'finish' or the 'release') where the oar blade is removed from the water?
- ...that honolulu is a pocket billiards game which forbids straight-in shots, requiring all balls to be made indirectly, through banks, combinations, caroms or kick shots?
- ...that whipcracking, the art of using a whip to create a miniature sonic boom, is a competitive sport in Australia, where it was also elaborated into whipboxing?
- ...that Irfan Pathan, the only bowler to take a Test hat-trick in the first over of a match, grew up playing cricket inside a Baroda mosque where his father was the muezzin, and could not afford equipment until his domestic team furnished it, at age 15?
- ...that New York Mets pitcher Chuck Estrada picked up the win in Tom Seaver's major league debut?
- ...that the cope given to the Rt. Revd. David Urquhart upon his inauguration as the ninth Bishop of Birmingham in November 2006 featured the emblems of Aston Villa and Birmingham City, the two most prominent football teams of the city?
- ... that the 1983 text adventure game Snowball, the first of the Silicon Dreams trilogy, contained over 7,000 locations?
- ...that Buzz Holmstrom was the first person to row alone all the way down the Colorado River from Green River, Wyoming to the Boulder Dam?
- ...that cowboy pool is a hybrid pool game combining elements of English billiards with more standard pocket billiards characteristics, and requires a player to intentionally scratch in order to win?
- ...that the phenomenon of Renting-A-Russian sometimes refers to getting a male Russian ice dancer to country hop to pair with a female figure skater from another country?
- ...that Göteborgs BK, founded in 1875, is the oldest football club in Sweden known by name, and only played Swedish football, a local variant?
- ...that Jaime Navarro was the opposing and winning pitcher for the inaugural Texas Rangers game at The Ballpark in Arlington in 1994?
- ...that the video game Daze Before Christmas allows the player to transform into "Anti-Claus", a blue-suited, devilish looking version of Santa Claus?
- ...that Farrer Park is where Singapore's first racecourse was built and the island's aviation history began?
- ...that Julien Wiener is the only Jewish Australian Test cricketer?
- ...that former NASCAR chairman Bill France, Jr. once used a mule while helping with the construction of Daytona International Speedway?
- ...that Zimbabwe is the only cricket team to not lose its first Test match since Australia won the very first Test in 1877?
- ...that Thoroughbred racehorse Arazi's victory over Bertrando has been described as the single-most spectacular performance in Breeders' Cup history?
- ... that Australian cricket captain Ricky Ponting is the nephew of former player Greg Campbell?
- ...that History Line: 1914-1918, a turn-based strategy computer game from 1993, adapted the software engine of the science-fiction Battle Isle series to portray the First World War?
- ...that Les Wallace is the only left-handed BDO World Darts Champion?
- ...that the 2006 Boise State University football team returned more starters from 2005 than any other team in NCAA Division I-A football?
- ...that Indian wicketkeeper Dinesh Karthik learnt to play cricket in Kuwait?
- ...that Sabeena Saleem is the first mother to compete alongside her daughter at the Asian Games in Indian bowling history?
- ...that the first artistic billiards world tournament only used ivory balls?
- ...that West Ham Stadium in London holds the record for the lowest ever attendance of a football match in The Football League, despite its capacity of 120,000?
- ...that in 1994, Horace Dove-Edwin became the first medalist in athletics for Sierra Leone, but lost it due to a positive doping test?
- ...that in Homer's Iliad, the charioteer Meriones is described as being a "peer of murderous Mars"?
- ...that South African cricketer Geoff Griffin took a hat-trick in his second Test match, at Lord's in 1960, but was no-balled repeatedly for throwing in the same match and in the exhibition match that followed it, and never played Test cricket again?
- ...that Winning Colors is one of only three fillies to have won the Kentucky Derby?
- ...that English Test cricketer Graham Roope was batting at the non-striker's end when Geoff Boycott reached his 100th first-class century, but not when John Edrich achieved the same record one month earlier, despite many claims to the contrary?
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