Sports History Oddities On This Day 콘텐츠 아카이브

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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