He’d rank No. 35 on the all-time Olympic gold medal list, ahead of 97 nations. Michael Phelps is arguably the greatest Olympian ever. Some might
Month: October 2021
One of the most bizarre football facts is that there is an official football club with most letters. The Dutch football club which is often
Clubs: Back in December of 1942, Stephan Stanis scored a staggering 16 goals for his side Racing Club de Lens, not a single person, since then, has managed
While most sports keep the scoring system simple, tennis… not so much. It is believed that the scoring system comes from medieval France and that
On the total polar opposite spectrum of Isner-Mahut, the shortest Grand Slam final ever took place in 1988 when Steffi Graf took Natalia Zvereva to the woodshed
The longest match on record took place in 2010 at Wimbledon, when John Isner and Nicolas Mahut went gladiator on the courts in a ridiculously
Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal won 20 Grand Slam titles in singles, while Margaret Court won 24 Grand Slam titles in single. Player
That is because one of the official duties of early refs was timekeeping. Then again, there wasn’t that much time to keep: the 24-second shot
Players never could advance the ball. Instead, each player had to throw it from wherever he caught it. The first team credited with advancing the
At this point, Liverpool has won the cup six times, Manchester United has won the cup three times, Nottingham Forest has won twice, and Aston