Sports History Oddities On This Day Content Archive

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  1. The hangover that threw a perfect game
  2. Pizza, Red Bull, and the 6th-longest NHL game ever
  3. The man who beat Joe Frazier — and lost everything because of it
  4. The world's biggest sports body was founded without the country that invented the sport
  5. She teed off against the men — and beat 11 of them
  6. He rode in circles for 29 hours — and almost doubled the world record
  7. 0.043 seconds: the Indy 500 finish that still hasn't been beaten
  8. Four world records in 45 minutes — with a broken back
  9. The 4-second steal that took 27 years to explain
  10. The trophy that didn't officially exist — and the man who'd already broken England
  11. The journeyman who out-slugged Babe Ruth's ghost
  12. The 18-year-old who nearly swept tennis history — and lost it all to a cement truck
  13. May 31, 1868: the race that "started cycling" wasn't first, and the strangest event scored going slowest
  14. June 1, 1939: boxing's first TV moment reached about 400 people — and starred a cosmic puncher
  15. June 2, 1901: a lawyer wore a red jacket, hit a golf ball on a Sunday, and got arrested on purpose
  16. June 3, 2018 — Stephen Curry shot 9 threes in an NBA Finals game and Kevin Love called the last one a "moon ball"
  17. The man who hadn't lost in 9 years, 9 months, and 9 days just lost
  18. Before the bricks, before the speed: The Brickyard's first race was a balloon contest
  19. Broadway Joe quit the NFL over a $50,000 bar — and the NFL blinked
  20. Sick, seeded 9th — she ended Hingis's 37-0
  21. The Broadcaster Who Walked 300 Miles Because He Said He Would
  22. He Won by a Sixteenth of a Mile
  23. The Euro final they had to play twice
  24. The last-place team that won it all: LA Kings, June 11, 2012
  25. He pedaled a 71-pound plastic plane across the English Channel
  26. The format that saved cricket was approved by just four votes — and launched on Friday the 13th
  27. He won three Olympic golds, then used a wooden surfboard to save 8 men from drowning — before breakfast
  28. The world's fastest marathoner was an American schoolteacher — living alone in Essex, coached by post
  29. 32 scuba divers pedaled a tricycle 116 miles underwater. Nobody paid them enough attention.
  30. 91,513. Wrong sport. Wrong city. Still the record.
  31. The 20-year-old with 2 caps who steamrolled England
  32. The man who studied film and shocked the world
  33. The lace panties that shook Wimbledon
  34. The weightlifter who rewrote the Olympics rulebook
  35. Four minutes that broke football's brain
  36. On This Day: The NFL's Most Feared Fullback Walked Into a Wrestling Ring and Won the World Title
  37. No swing. No cloud. No excuse. Just 42.
  38. 18 innings. 12 strikeouts. Two losses. Same day.
  39. The first Grand Prix was a 769-mile death race on public roads — and two-thirds of the cars didn't finish
  40. The first woman to bike the world, sort of
  41. The $2 skis that invented water skiing
  42. The $3 ticket to seven feet
  43. The ban heard round the rink
  44. The Olympics swallowed by a fair
  45. The $1.8M fight on the radio
  46. The Cup won by one second
  47. Alabama's Canadian football Fourth
  48. The First Woman Took the Ninth
  49. Five Seconds to Stardom
  50. The Day the Celtics Became the Clippers
  51. The 59 That Didn't Win
  52. The 9a with no second chance
  53. The horse race that made Man o' War look mortal
  54. The 309 That Took One Day
  55. The 98-cent riot
  56. The World Cup That Started Before Its Poster
  57. The first no-hitter was a 2-0 mess
  58. The Wimbledon final where William beat his twin
  59. The World Cup final that ended 0-0 and still crowned a champion
  60. The scoreboard that couldn't count to 10
  61. The shortstop who made three outs, then hit a home run
  62. The Tour winner who finished second five times first
  63. The man who went around the world without an engine
  64. The inning that gave Curt Walker two triples
  65. The World Cup quarter-final that turned 3–0 into 5–3
  66. The marathon winner who crossed first, then lost the gold
  67. The 292-mile swim that took nearly four days
  68. The 800-meter record that outlived an era
  69. The pitcher who won with one pitch
  70. The Olympics that opened with 14 countries missing
  71. The high jump that finally cleared eight feet
  72. The World Cup final that needed two match balls
  73. The borrowed bat behind a 4-homer, 18-total-base game
  74. The Olympic badminton pairs that were disqualified for trying to lose
  75. The 8-6-2 double play that put two Yankees at the same plate
  76. The emery board that fell out of Joe Niekro's pocket
  77. The NASCAR race Lee Petty stopped with a red flag
  78. The pinch-hitter who broke a perfect game in a 13–0 loss
  79. The 19-year-old who beat every man across the English Channel
  80. The Olympic 800m final where David Rudisha broke 1:41
  81. The baseball giveaway that ended in an MLB forfeit
  82. Babe Ruth hit No. 500 — and the Yankees still lost 6–5
  83. The 13-year-old who won Olympic gold after losing the U.S. trials
  84. The champion's only loss came after a terrible start
  85. The wife who became pro football's first woman player by holding for her husband
  86. The only MLB player to die from a game injury was hit by a pitch on August 16
  87. Phelps's eighth Olympic gold was a relay job on August 17, 2008
  88. The midnight swim that made Brojen Das Asia’s first across the English Channel
  89. The 1934 national race won on wheels with no bearings
  90. The 80-game first round that made tennis look like an endurance sport
  91. The wicketkeeper who stumped eight batsmen in one match on August 21

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