The only teams in the NBA that have names not ending in the letter "S" are the Utah Jazz, the Miami Heat, and the Orlando Magic.
The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League all-stars game.
Major league baseball bats are made of ash. Almost all are shorter than 36 inches and weigh 31 to 36 ounces. The barrel can be 2.75 inches in diameter, but many of today's bats are 2.5 inches in diameter to save weight.
The Phoenix Suns hired former player Alvan Adams to tour the finest basketball arenas in the world. The best of their features, based on his findings, were incorporated into the new America West Arena's design in downtown Phoenix, Arizona. All seats, even the less expensive ones, have excellent sight lines. Everything in the Arena is state-of-the-art, built with not only the fans, but also the players, in mind. Unlike most NBA teams, the Suns practice where they play, in a gym built next to the locker rooms at the Arena.
Major league baseball teams buy 182 pounds of special baseball rubbing mud each year from a farmer in Millsboro, Delaware.
The playing field at the new Arizona Bank One Ballpark (BOB) is the only field in Major League Baseball that faces directly north, unlike other fields, where the third-base line points north. The grass on the playing field is De Anza zoysia, a hybrid specially formulated for hot, desert climates. It tolerates low-light conditions well — an important factor when BOB’s mammoth retractable roof is closed during Arizona's hot afternoon games. The grass was developed by the University of California at Riverside.
Major-league baseball clubs didn't start putting numbers on uniforms until the 1930s. As a result, Ty Cobb, who broke many batting and base-stealing records while playing with the Detroit Tigers (1905-1926), didn't have his uniform number retired. This was, simply, because Cobb never was issued a number.
The sport with the largest expenses (medical, legal, and others) due to injuries treated in U.S. emergency rooms in 1995 was bicycling, with costs exceeding $4 billion. More than half a million bicycling injuries were documented. A huge percentage of those injuries were head injuries, which could have been prevented had riders worn protective helmets.
Mark McGwire's record-setting 70 home runs traveled a total of 29,598 feet, enough to fly over Mount Everest.
The St. Sylvester Road Race in Brazil is witnessed by more than 1 million people every year.
Matty, Felipe, and Jesus Alou are the only three brothers to start a baseball game in the outfield for the same major league team. The brothers accomplished this in 1963 with the San Francisco Giants.
The standard pitching distance in the game of horseshoes is 40 feet for men and 30 feet for women and juniors.
Moses Malone became the first player to go from high school straight into pro basketball in 1974. The move made him the highest salaried teenage athlete in the United States at that time. Malone was signed by the Utah Stars of the American Basketball Association.
The Tom Thumb golf course was the first miniature golf course in the United States. It was built it 1929 in Chattanooga, Tennessee by John Garnet Carter.
No high jumper has ever been able to stay off the ground for more than one second.
The uniform of the San Diego Padres is a shade of brown officially called "Padre Brown," after the color of the robes of the missionaries who settled in California and built Mission San Diego 400 years ago.
The uniform of the San Diego Padres is a shade of brown officially called "Padre Brown," after the color of the robes of the missionaries who settled in California and built Mission San Diego 400 years ago.
Olympic badminton rules say that the shuttlecock has to have exactly 16 feathers. The best shuttles are made from the feathers from the left wing of a goose.
The velocity of a pitched baseball is about 8 mph faster as it leaves the pitcher's hand than when it reaches home plate.
Olympic testing of athletes for anabolic steroids began in 1976.
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