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Name the NBA player that choked out his coach, and name the coach.
Spree
Carlesimo
who holds the record for most receiving yards in an NFL game with 336
(yes I know this......dont cheat mf'ers)
Calvin Johnson Lions?? I didn’t cheat although I wanted too 😅 EDIT: I’m wrong 😡
who holds the record for most receiving yards in an NFL game with 336
Flipper Anderson?
Who holds the record for most consecutive title defenses in boxing?
Which NBA player, knowing his team was going to lose during the playoffs, coined the phrase "1,2,3 Cancun" when breaking the huddle?
Clue: He was a Laker guard, with Kobe. That got him traded to Denver.
i know nothing about the 1,2,3 Cancun quote but I'll take an educated guess based on the teams mentioned and say Van Exel
You would be right.
btw you'll hear Shaq, Kenny, and Charles to this day still refer to the 1,2,3 Cancun quote during the playoffs, and LOL.
Name the pitcher that hit the catcher intentionally over the head with a bat. Name catcher too.
I only knew that because Everett was my favorite NFL player back then.... LOL .
Ok. Who is the only two-time winner of the Butkus Award given to college football's best linebacker?
Marichal, Roseboro.
Although there might be some possible debate about this one, both my 'History of Sport' Professor (yes I took that class) and Trivial Pursuit (I couldn't believe it when my studies paid off!) agree.
Name the two games which served as inspiration for the modern game of baseball.......
Chrissy Everett?
"I spent 50% of my money on alcohol, women, and gambling. The other half I wasted.
I didn't google it.
One is obviously cricket. The second one i have no idea, but i'm going to take a very wild guess and say darts, due to the pinpoint accuracy of the game, and that needed to be a good pitcher.
Yes, but Serena Williams was better.
Rounders the other?
Rounders and Cricket !!!!
What D-1 college football conference has had the most successful season (measured by final rankings poll)?
Who was the Baseball HOF pitcher that was drafted by a Pro Hockey team?
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I thought Rounders was a movie about poker?
@stevek Interesting side note. (Well, maybe 😂) The professor who taught me that, sometime in the 90s, was an athletic trainer of some kind - I don't remember his role or even name- on the 1983 76ers NBA Championship team.
Edit ..Remembered his name. Adding short partial bio. He told us, as it says, that he was the first full time strength and conditioning coach on an NBA team.
**John R. Kilbourne, Ph.D.
Dr. Kilbourne has devoted nearly all of his adult life to helping individuals and communities understand the deeper meanings of play, games, sport, and dance. His Bachelors degree is in Creative Drama & Movement from California State University Long Beach. His Masters Degree is from the University of California at Los Angeles in Dance Education with an emphasis in Dance & Sport. While at UCLA he served as Graduate Assistant (Dance/Basketball Conditioning) to then Headcoach Larry Brown. His Ph.D. is from The Ohio State University where he continued his work in exploring the relationships between sport and performance. His dissertation is titled, Building A Bridge Between Athletics and Academics.
In 1982 John became the first full-time Conditioning Coach in the National Basketball Association with the Philadelphia Seventy Sixers. He helped them in the pursuit of their 1983 World Championship.*
That is an interesting story, especially because of the Philly basketball championship angle.
I do enjoy the history and evolution of various things, including the planet itself and how life evolved, etc. Although i was ignorant about the initial fundamental roots of baseball.
Frankly i had sorta heard of the sport "rounders", but until now had no idea what type of sport it was, or if it was actually a sport at all. If anyone had said it was a drinking game, i would have nodded my head in acceptance of that explanation - LOL.
I can tell you that this Professor was quite interesting. He liked to talk about that 76ers team, telling us the Moses Malone "fo fo fo" story. I guess I had forgotten that he was the first full time trainer, but now I recall how he used this as an example of how different things were, as well as leading towards how things had changed (by the latter 1990s). I remember him conveying the importance of "sport" to us as humans, going well back in history and we'll beyond what the obvious ideas are. And I can honestly say that I can extrapolate that out to this very forum and the community that I - as do many others- find here.
Name the first Asian American head coach in the history of the NBA.
He's the guy in the NBA finals that isn't coaching the Lakers.
Eric Spoelska. (sp)
"I spent 50% of my money on alcohol, women, and gambling. The other half I wasted.
I remembered this question from that same class. Though the answer escaped me. When I looked it up, there seems to be two sports competing for this claim. So if it's alright with @hammer1 , I will take either answer. 😎
Which sport was the first to have a "world championship"?
Here's an interesting one, I think.
In 1961, JFK signed into law new regulations which dramatically shaped the modern era of the major American sports.
If you know the law...bonus points for you...but as an answer I will take just simply an explanation of why this was important and what it helped create for us sports fans.
Not sure the first but the first Super Bowl wasn’t called the Super Bowl. It was called the World Championship
"I spent 50% of my money on alcohol, women, and gambling. The other half I wasted.
Real Tennis
Billiards
The Sports Broadcast Act of 1961
http://thesportdigest.com/2013/11/how-jfks-signature-changed-the-nfl-american-sports/