Jun 12, 2015List is a month and a half old but I'm sure most of you haven't seen it, I just found it today. I'm not gonna be a d-ck and post all of them but I'll post a lot of them and some of the ones I found more interesting, link at the bottom if you want to check out the full list.
3. If Michael Phelps were a country, he’d rank No. 35 on the all-time Olympic gold medal list, ahead of 97 nations.
4. Wilt Chamberlain didn’t win MVP the year he scored 50.4 points and grabbed 22.9 rebounds per game. (Bill Russell did.)
8. When Michael Jordan averaged 37.1 points per game in 1986-87, his Chicago Bulls were a sub.500, eighth-seeded playoff team that got swept by the Boston Celtics in the first round.
9. The average golf ball has 336 dimples.
12. If three-time Cy Young winner Clayton Kershaw were to break Young’s record of 511 wins, he’d need to stay at his current pace for the next 41 years, until he were 68 years old.
14. Wilt’s 50.4 ppg season is 31.6% better than the next-highest scoring average in history. (Elgin Baylor’s 38.3 ppg is second and was also set in 1962). To put into perspective, someone breaking Tony Gwynn’s record for batting average in last 70 years (.394) would have to hit .518 to match that 31.6% difference.
18. When the Americans defeated favorite England in the 1950 World Cup, the story goes that many newspapers around the world believed the 1-0 score to be a typo and instead printed that England won 10-1.
19. Only three active players are in the top 50 on the all-time MLB home run list, yet 27 of the top 50 have played in the past 20 years.
21. Liechtenstein has competed in the most Summer Olympics (16) without winning any medal.
22. In the 1970s, Jack Nicklaus played all 40 majors and made the top 10 in 35.
23. While there has never been a three-peat in the Super Bowl, the NBA (10), NHL (9) and MLB (7) have each featured multiple such championships.
26. The 100-point game gets all the deserved attention, but a few years later, Wilt went for 25 points, grabbed 22 rebounds and dealt out 21 assists. It remains the only “double” triple-double in history.
27. Only 10 other quarterbacks in NFL history have thrown half as many touchdown passes as Peyton Manning.
31. When asked why he didn’t win gold in cross country at the 2010 Olympics, Norwegian skier Odd-Bjoern Hjelmeset said, “I think I have seen too much p--- in the last 14 days.”
33. The longest recorded point in tennis history took 29 minutes and featured the ball crossing the net 643 times in a 1984 women’s match. Young Aussie player Bernard Tomic (nicknamed “Tomic the Tank Engine”) lost a match last year in 28 minutes.
34. Tiger Woods once made 142 straight cuts, topping Jack Nicklaus’ record by 37 and routinely leading the next-best active player by 100 or more tournaments. (This is one of Tiger’s most underrated stats.)
35. About 46% of Pro Football Hall of Famers played for one team during their NFL careers.
37. The phrase about winning something “hands down” originally referred to a jockey who won a race without whipping his horse or pulling back the reins.
39. The longest average NFL careers? Punters, at 4.87 years.
42. In 2004, Barry Bonds was intentionally walked 120 times, which is more than 2.5 times higher than the longtime record held by Willie McCovey (45 in 1969). Only six players in the NL that year walked that many times in total.
56. Rasheed Wallace had his 2004 Detroit Pistons championship ring resized to fit his middle finger.
57. Only 11 goalies have scored a goal in the history of the NHL, with the first coming in 1979 and the last in 2013.
59. Only 72 players in NBA history have attempted more free throws in their careers than the 5,317 Shaquille O’Neal missed.
63. The Boston Bruins name is spelled “BQSTQN BRUINS” on the Stanley Cup for their 1971-72 title.
65. The Cleveland Browns are the only team to neither play in nor host a Super Bowl.
67. Alaska and Maine are the only two states to never send a school to the NCAA tournament.
70. A contest was held to name the San Jose Sharks and “Rubber Puckies” was one of the finalists. The “Blades” won voting but was determined to have too many g--- ties, so the team went with “Sharks” because apparently they’ve never seen West Side Story.
72. Four presidents have been on the cover of Sports Illustrated: John F. Kennedy, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan (twice) and Bill Clinton.
79. Starting in 1990, Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls never had a three-game losing streak for eight years.
80. From 1918-1949, the Philadelphia Phillies had one winning season.
81. Only one city has won three major sports championships in the same year: Detroit in 1935, when the Lions won the NFL title, Tigers won the World Series and Red Wings took the Stanley Cup.
82. Cleveland has more titles in the Big Four sports than Dallas, San Francisco, Washington, Baltimore, Denver and Houston, so enough with this “woe is Cleveland” nonsense.
83. Wayne Gretzky broke the all-time single-season goals record by 16 goals and the points record by 65 as a 20-year-old on the Edmonton Oilers.
87. In order to break Cal Ripken’s consecutive games record, current leader Evan Longoria (257 straight as of Apr. 22, 2015) would have to play every day until sometime around July of 2029, when he’d be 43 years old.
89. Wilt Chamberlain won three-straight Big Eight titles in the high jump and was also inducted into the volleyball Hall of Fame.
91. Michael Jordan, Bo Jackson and Wayne Gretzky starred in a short-lived 1991 NBC Saturday morning cartoon called Pro Stars.
97. Joe Gibbs is the only coach to win the Super Bowl with three different quarterbacks.
100. When 7-1 underdog Cassisus Clay (who would change his name to Muhammad Ali days later) defeated Sonny Liston in Miami Beach in 1964, the 16,000-seat arena was half-empty.
101. Michael Jordan’s nickname is high school was Magic, after Magic Johnson.
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