In 2017, it cost on average 219 dollars for a US family of four to attend a Major League Baseball game.
Kareem has scored a total of 38,387 points during his career. This was all achieved within his twenty seasons of playing for the Bucks and Lakers.
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This logo is a silhouette of Jerry West. He is one of many players that are featured in the NBA hall of fame. Jerry West was previously known to play for the Lakers.
Darts rules prohibit drinking alcohol during the game.
In England, soccer was formed when several clubs formed the Football Association about 150 years ago.
In 2011, a motorcyclist, Philip A. Contos, was participating in an anti-helmet rally in Onondaga, New York (USA). He died after falling off his motorbike and hitting his head on the pavement. According to the police, a helmet could have saved his life.
This is because at least one color on this flag can be found on any flag in any country.
This is more than what all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia annually make combined. This is enough money to be able to feel the entire world population a meal.
All three major sports teams from this city all make use of the colors black and yellow. These colors are based on the ones of William Pitt’s coat of arms.
The Rio 2016 Paralympic Games (Brazil) were the first to introduce medals that Paralympic Athletes can hear.
Many Olympic swimmers wear a swim cap under their swim cap. Two caps are thought to have a slight performance-enhancing effect and to better secure a swimmer’s goggles.
Golf was banned in England during 1457.
Softball was included as one of the sport in the Summer Olympic Games between 1996 and 2008. It was removed in 2012 and 2016, but it has been included in the 2020 Summer Olympics.
His jersey was stolen from the visitor’s locker room while they were away to play against the Orlando Magic. Due to this unforeseen circumstance, Jordan was forced to wear a no.12 jersey.
Soviet gymnast Larissa Latynina has a total of 18 medals. She competed in three Olympics between the years of 1956 and 1964.
Initially, there was no hole in the baskets used to play basketball. The hole appeared only 21 years after the invention of the sport.
Up to 10% of all paper towels in the gym are used to wipe the water off one’s shower gel bottle.
According to the rules of the International Tennis Federation, the tennis net can be up to 15 cm (6 in) lower in the middle.
In 2016, Granit and Taulant Xhaka became the first brothers to ever play against each other at the European Championship football finals. They represented Switzerland and Albania respectively.
A UK Paralympic swimmer was disqualified from the IPC European Championships S8 100m freestyle final for failing to cover up his Olympic rings tattoo in May 2016.
Baseballs from the Major League Baseball association can last up to 7 pitches.
In 1908, the Russian Olympic team arrived in London, UK, twelve days late because they were still using the Julian calendar. The Russian Orthodox Church still follows it, which is why Christmas in Russia falls on 7 January rather than on 25 December.
The national football team of Iceland made it to the quarter-final stage of Euro 2016. It is estimated that 9% of the entire population of the country were physically present at the stadium.
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Anna Kopchovsky, the first woman to cycle around the world in 1894, had only learned how to cycle a few days before she set off. She covered the entire distance in 15 months and received a reward of 10,000 dollars.
This allows the tire to have a much more consistent rate of expansion and contraction compared to air. Half a pound of pressure is enough to significantly affect traction. Nitrogen also works well for scooters.
Unicorns were also another name choice for the team. The name was decided on in 1946 by the team owner Walter Brown.
Naismith was also credited with designing the first football helmet. The game of basketball was invented because Naismith needed a game that could be played indoors during the harsh winter seasons.
The first Olympic race took place in 776 BC and was won by a chef named Corubus. Moments after receiving his first paycheck, he hired a cook and an agent.
The dimples on a golf ball are designed to make it more aerodynamic, allowing it to travel further in the air. There are no official rules about how many dimples a golf ball can have and most feature between 300 and 500.
Table tennis (aka ping-pong) was prohibited in the Soviet Union for quite some time (1930 - 1950) as it was thought to damage eyesight.
In 1994, Bulgaria had the only soccer team where all players last names ended in ‘OV
Scuba divers cannot fart at depths of more than 10 m (33 ft).
The game of Scrabble was banned in Romania in the 1980s. The Romanian President, Nicolae Ceausescu, perceived it as “overly intellectual” and a “subversive evil”.
Despite their name and colour, the gold medals presented to winners at the Olympic Games haven’t been made from solid gold since 1912. The modern gold medals are made from sterling silver and feature just small quantities of the precious metal (the Rio 2016 versions were 1.34 percent gold).
Playing hockey is very popular in Canada. It is even depicted on the CAD 5 banknote.
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The 2022 World Soccer Championship will be opened in Lusail (Qatar), a city which did not exist till recently.
Upon his return to Colombia, the football player Andres Escobar was murdered for having scored an own goal which led to his national team’s elimination from the 1994 FIFA World Cup.
The average American pro baseball player earns $2,377,000 per year. The majority of regulation baseballs are stitched by hand.
Live pigeon shooting used to be an official Olympic sport.
The distance covered by individual players in a football game was first tracked with technology “borrowed” from military fighter jets (namely the system used to lock onto and keep track of an enemy aircraft).
In 1935, Owens set a new record for the 100-yard dash, long jump, 220-yard dash, and 220 low hurdles. No one in track and field history has yet to break such amount of records under a short amount of time.
Table tennis (aka ping-pong) was prohibited in the Soviet Union for quite some time (1930 - 1950) as it was thought to damage eyesight.
In 1975, a male participant in the famous bicycle race Tour de France gave a urine sample containing his wife’s urine. He was found “pregnant” and disqualified.
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The sport of badminton was initially called “Poona”.
The Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci became the first athlete ever to receive the maximal 10.00 score at the Olympic Games in Montreal, Canada, in 1976.
Celluloid billiard balls can literally explode on impact.