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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...
Criticize baseball's Hall, but at least theirs matters
There are four things you can count on at the start of a new calendar year: a never-ending stream of ridiculously-named bowl games -- like the "San Diego County Credit Union Poinsetta Bowl," a regular season hockey game that's actually worth watching, the absolute worst movies Hollywood can...
Today in Sports History: November 29th
11/29/1972 - Pong is releasedIt was on this day in 1972 that the first commercially successful video game of all time was released: Pong. The gameplay was simple enough -- the user moved a 2D paddle where a square ball would bounce, with either the computer or another player trying to hit it...
"Like Mike"? Maybe, more "Like Iverson"
There's no easy answer why the Miami Heat, the team some experts had winning 70 or more games, are off to a disastrous 8-7 start. Sure, Mike Miller and Udonis Haslem are big losses, but they shouldn't exactly need them to beat the Memphis Grizzlies or, particularly, the Indiana Pacers. After all,...
Today in Sports History: November 21st
11/21/1969 - Cousy returns to the court Six years after he last played for the Boston Celtics, NBA legend Bob Cousy steps back on the court in a Cincinnati Royals uniform. He had spent the previous six years coaching at Boston College, and although he was successful, he was tired of the...
Today in Sports History: November 9th
11/09/1984 - Bird 42, Erving 6 In an early-season meeting between the Sixers and Celtics, the star players on both teams got ejected after fighting. Larry Bird, ever the trash talker, thoroughly outplayed an aging Julius Erving. Erving went just 3-13 for six points while Bird hooked up for 42...
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...
10/30/2001 - Jordan returns in a Wizards uniform
Three and a half years after calling it quits, Michael Jordan returned to the court in a Washington Wizards jersey. The ex-Bull retired at the capable age of 35 and had shaken off rumors of a comeback for three years. Jordan consistently noted that the odds of him staying retired were at 99.9...
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