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1) About 5% of all Association Football (Soccer) injuries occur during celebrations after scoring a goal.
2) Former Major League baseball player Benji Molina was one of the slowest base runners in baseball during his career. So slow that he once hit a home run that he never scored on, with a pinch runner put in after Molina made it to first base… What happened was Molina hit a home run that initially was ruled a single and a pinch runner, Emmanuel Burris, was put in.
3) Tug of war was an Olympic event until after the 1920 Olympics. Multiple teams from countries were allowed, which is how the U.S. won bronze, silver, and gold in 1904. Britain did the same thing in 1908.
4) In 1996, when Pete Sampras played Alex Corretja in the U.S. Open, he had a bit of a stomach bug. He actually threw up on the baseline during the fifth set. One of the referees warned Pete Sampras that he would be disqualified if he caused another delay. Sampras pulled himself together and was not only able to finish the match, but he came out victorious.
5) Henry Chadwick, the creator of the baseball box score, was the first to setup a demonstration proving that the rotation of a baseball could cause the ball to curve. Before this, some pitchers had already observed and used this to their advantage (even though many of the day considered it cheating), but no one had yet proved that it was actually happening and not just in the pitcher’s heads or an optical illusion.
6) Chadwick chose the “K” to denote a strikeout in a baseball box score because it was the last letter in “struck” as in “struck out”. Chadwick often liked to use the last letter of words instead of the first, particularly when he felt they were more memorable. In this particular case, Chadwick said “the letter K in struck is easier to remember in connection with the word, than S.”
7) “Super Bowl” and “Super Sunday” are trademarked by the NFL. As a result of this, any advertisement, event, promotion, etc. that wants to refer to the Super Bowl has to come up with some colloquialism or be granted rights to do so by the NFL, which rarely happens. For the Super Bowl, the most popular colloquialism is “The Big Game”. Once this became common, the NFL tried, unsuccessfully, to trademark “The Big Game”.
8) Soccer balls were originally painted with the now classic black and white checkered look in order to make them more visible on black and white TV during the 1970 FIFA World Cup. Naturally, people wanted to buy balls that looked like those that the professionals used on TV and thus everybody bought the black and white checkered soccer ball instead of the previous traditional solid color ball.
9) Mickey Rourke, most recently known for his parts in Iron Man 2 and The Expendables, shocked Hollywood back in the early 90s when he decided to quit acting and become a professional boxer. Rourke intended to fight until he got a title shot, but after three years and a series of serious injuries he decided to quit.
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