i need strange sports facts?
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-127 people ran the first New York City Marathon in 1970, 32,000 ran in 1998. \n\n-The Cincinnati Redstockings was the first baseball team to pay its players. \n\n-Rowing is the oldest American college sport still in existence. \n\n-The Tour de France bicycle race is 2,300 miles long. \n\n-When badminton was invented in India, it was known as poona\n\n- The referee tossed a jump ball after every basket in basketball until 1937\n\n-The first baseball player to be named rookie of the year was Jackie Robinson in 1947. \n\n-Mickey Mantle is credited with the longest home run ever, 643 feet. \n\n------------------------------------------------\n- THE SLIHOUETTE ON THE NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION IS JERRY WEST\n\n- THE SILHOUETTE ON THE MAJOR LEAGUE OF BASEBALL LOGO IS HARMON KILLEBREW \n\n- PISTSBURGH, PENNSLYVANIA IS THE ONLY CITY IN THE USA WITH 3 SPORTS TEAMS THAT ALL WEAR THE SAME COLOURS\n\n- SEVEN OLYMPIC GOLD MEDAL WINNERS EVENTUALLY WENT ON TO WIN THE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE WORLD \n\n- A FOREFITTED GAME IN BASEBALL IS RECORDED AS A 9-0 SCORE. IN FOOTBALL IT IS RECORDED AS A 1-0 SCORE\n\n- IN 1986 DANNY HEEP BECAME THE FIRST PLAYER IN A WORLD SERIES TO BE A DESIGNATED HITTER (DH) WITH THE INITIALS "D.H" \n\n- THE ONLY PERSON TO BE ELECTED TO BOTH THE FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME AND THE BASEBALL HALL OF FAME IS CAL HUBBARD \n\n- KRESIMIR COSIC IS THE ONLY NON-AMERICAN PLAYER IN THE NBA HALL OF FAME  \n\n- DECATUR, ILLINOIS WAS THE ORIGINAL HOME OF THE CHICAGO BEARS  \n\n- THE 1957 MILWAUKEE BREWERS WERE THE FIRST TEAM TO WIN THE WORLD SERIES AFTER BEING RELOCATED. \n------------------------------------------------\n\nIn the NBA, Shaq wears the biggest shoes, he wears size 22.\n\nThe first puck used in a game of ice hockey was a frozen cow patty.\n\nJai-Alai is the world's fastest ball game. A small, hard ball is thrown at a granite wall at speeds of around 188mph (303km/h) using scoops that are latched to the players' hands.\n\nQ: What travels faster: a serve from Andy Roddick, a slapshot from Jarome Iginla or a fastball from Pedro Martinez? \nA: Andy Roddick's serve is the fastest. Some of his serves have traveled at 149 miles per hour (240 kilometers per hour)!\n\nPeach baskets were used in the first basketball game.\n\nQ:  A game in which players kick a ball with their feet is called soccer in North America but football everywhere else in the world. Where does the term "soccer" come from? \nA:  The word soccer comes from an abbreviation of the word association - which was a reference to The first Football Association, which was formed in England in 1863.\n\nQ:  The national sport of Afghanistan is called buzkashi. What is the object of this game? \nA:  Buzkashi is a sport where teams score points for carrying a goat's carcass across a goal line, while riding on a horse.\n\nIn 2002, Takeru Kobayashi ate 50 hotdogs in 12 minutes to set a new world record for hotdog eating.\n\nRandall Simon of the Pittsburgh Pirates fined $432 during the 2003 baseball season for attacking a woman dressed up as a sausage with a baseball bat\n\nBoxer Mike Tyson was disqualified from the 1997 fight after he bit Evander Holyfield's ear twice. The second time he actually took a piece out of Holyfield's ear.\n\nBefore 1859, umpires sat in a padded rocking chair behind the catcher.\n\nIn the National Hockey League, home teams wear white jerseys and visiting teams wear dark jerseys. That's because back in the 1960s, the league figured it would be more difficult to keep white uniforms clean while players were on the road. \n\nYou've probably  heard people say, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye." Well that phrase comes from Ancient Rome. The only rule during Roman wrestling matches was, "No eye gouging." Biting, kicking and scratching were allowed but the only way to be disqualified was to poke someone's eye out. \n\nYou might think a yo-yo is just a
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Baseball (or baseball players) is a very superstitious game. People do weird stuff in their believe that it will help their team win.
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Try this:\n\nhttp://www.funtrivia.com/quizzes/sports/oceania/australia.html
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http://sports.espn.go.com/rpm/news/story?series=2&page=MondayRundown
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you could probably find information at wikipedia.org \nif its about some kind of scoring thing go to this site i just checked it now.
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Is this a sports question? Who cares?
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This one?\nhttp://www.taylor.k12.ky.us/TCHS/Sports/index.htm
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Not sure of the stats....but a good website to look at past records for any college team going back till like forever...is \n\nwww.cfbdatawarehouse.com\n\nHope this helps!
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You can go to NBA.com, MLB.com or other official website, they have online updating stats.  You can see the location of a pitch, or who shoot a ball from which angle.
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bro go to :\nSports > Football (soccer)\nit's in there ..
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Is this a sports question?
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Like these: http://www.google.com/search?q=kids+sports+quiz
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You like this one Football 101 - http://www.playfootball.com/footballfacts/basics.html\n\nHere's more info then 101 thats for people who don't know a thing, this one's pretty good to - http://www.infoplease.com/ipsa/A0109430.html\n\n*Good Luck* These should help
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go to google and type in "sports related cases"
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Interesting, different info than I figured.  Depends on how you look at it--for one event, the Super Bowl, followed by soccer and F1 racing.  Link has a lot more info:
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That is his full name. Hey buddy, try out espn.com. that'll tell you EVERYTHING about ANYBODY.
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Foxsports.com, ESPN.com, Rotowire.com, and even USA Topday has some very good info on the subject.\n\nHope this gives you all the answers that you need