Frank Tarkenton's 1990 title with UNLV is one of the moments that Armenian-American sports fans hold dear, right up there with Braves' reliever Jack Kevorkian winning the 1987 NL Cy Young Award.

Actually, my all-time favorite cherry-picked stat is that Paul Derringer had the most wins in baseball from 1931-45. It's my standard reply to people who argue that Morris' win totals over a certain arbitrary window of time merit HOF induction.

The graph didn't intend to dip below zero - the graph was just drawn with "curve smoothing" turned on, which made the line appear to dip below zero just as a baserunner takes a bowed path around the bases.

Trying to think of historical fights that would have been altered by these proposed guidelines. The most obvious one is that Meldrick Taylor would have been stopped in his first fight with Julio Cesar Chavez (since Taylor did sustain a fractured orbital bone, in addition to other severe injuries.) Lennox Lewis broke…

Rose isn't on the ballot - that's a different issue than BBWAA members refusing to vote for a Clemens or a Bonds, players they CAN vote for.

This is exactly right. Plus, there are in-race "pace groups" that runners inherently gather around, and runners have GPS watches that allow them to lock onto a certain pace, etc. It's interesting to see the actual spikes in the distribution of finishing times displayed graphically, but it should hardly come as a…

According to this fantastic article about the history of malt liquor, Goetz originally marketed Country Club Malt Liquor using bridge scorepads as promotional items. Until companies actually started doing market research on the subject in the '60s, it was widely assumed that malt liquor was an upscale product.

Tonopah's head coach also pulled this prank during his previous coaching stints in Tucson, Tucumcari and Tahatchepi.

It doesn't matter which of our fantasies fail.

That wouldn't change the rank order of pitchers; if you lead the league in ERA then you also must lead the league in ER per 6 IP. All you're doing is dividing everyone's ERA by 1.5.

Per Hittrackeronline, the "true distance" of this homer was just 389'. It hit Catwalk C about 300-305' from the plate, and that scaffolding is 99' above the playing surface. It left Fielder's bat at 103 mph — to hit it 440' you need both a lower trajectory and more exit speed. In fact, it was only the fourth-longest…

Nigel thought he had his future set in stone.

"CAROLINE!!! F—K!!!"

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It's the greatest numerological coincidence since Todd Marinovich passed for 420 yards in a game in 1992.

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The saddest guitar of all.

This kick by Dan Carter (starting flyhalf for the All Blacks, shown here playing professionally for the Christchurch Crusaders) was struck from a point that would be about 10 feet out of bounds on an NFL gridiron. So kicks from the NFL sideline are certainly plausible.