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Stilt No More: Dwight Breaks a Wilt Free-Throw Record
Dwight Howard shot 39 free-throws on Thursday, breaking a single-game record that had been held by Wilt Chamberlain for nearly 50 years. Chamberlain once attempted 34 foul shots in a game on February 22, 1962 -- just a couple weeks before his absurd 100-point outing against the New York Knicks....
When it comes to comeback rumors, Favre's got nothing on Wilt
via a.espncdn.com Brett Favre has become the boogeyman. He's resurfaced so many times, like a monster out of a horror film, that no one really believes he's gone even when he says he is. He'll have to be pushing 50 or in the grave before people at last accept it, but so long as he's a year two...
What would a 50-game NBA season look like?
If the NBA regular season isn't canceled entirely, there's a decent chance we could see an abridged 50-game schedule, identical to the one caused by the last lockout in 1998. That lockout eliminated the '98 from the '98-99 season, starting the year in February just after the Super Bowl. There are...
Gone But Not Forgotten, Sports File #10: Twin Towers References
(Every Monday, Inhistoric delves into the long-since abandoned aspects of sports that many of us never knew existed, and reexamines them for your reading pleasure. Here's just one example of a part of sports that's no longer with us, for better or worse.) There was a time when analogizing bigmen...
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