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WHICH MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL TEAM HAS THE BEST WINNING PERCENTAGE?

The first Major League Baseball Spring training games will be played today and hope springs eternal as a new season begins that this year will be the year your favorite team goes to the World Series.  But what are the chances that that will really happen?  Which teams win the most often?

The New York Yankees, [...]

ADMIT IT! THE WINTER OLYMPICS ARE BORING!

Is it just me or are the televised Vancouver Winter Olympic events really boring?  I was sitting in a restaurant having lunch with friends yesterday and on the television was NBC covering the biathlon.  The biathlon is basically a combination of cross country skiing and target practice with rifles.  For hours there were videos of [...]

WHAT IS THE REAL OLYMPIC THEME?

With the Vancouver Winter Olympics upon us, get ready for a lot of pomp and circumstance set to music.  The theme most of us associate as the theme of the Olympics isn’t the official Olympic theme.  That piece, with it’s beginning timpani cadence and distinctive brass theme, is Leo Arnaud’s Bugler’s Dream.  It was written [...]

COUNT THE CLICHES

All professional athletes are coached to pretty much say nothing original when they are interviewed by the media.  I’m pretty sure all coaches give each player an encyclopedia of sports cliches when they join the team.  Perhaps the most overused sports cliche is “We just have to play them one at a time.”  Then there [...]

“I HATE FOOTBALL” EVENTS

As much as most of us love Super Bowl Sunday, there are still a significant number of people who would rather be doing something else than watch the game.  So, consider putting together an event aimed towards those people for whom football is a bore.  You could do something as simple as give away passes [...]

LET A PSYCHIC PREDICT THE SUPER BOWL WINNER

If you want to win the office Super Bowl pool this year, you’ll need every edge you can.  Consider getting that edge from your local psychics.  You could have a little fun with this by calling up and interviewing several area psychics to see if you can get a consensus on who will emerge as [...]

WHAT PERCENTAGE OF AMERICANS FOLLOW PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL?

As we head into another weekend of NFL playoff football, it seems that almost everyone seems to be following the process.  But, how many people really do follow the game?  Apparently America is a nation of football lovers.  65% of American men and 39% of women follow pro football.
That caused me to think about the [...]

THAT’S ONE BAD CASE OF THE UGLIES

December 7th is NBA basketball player Larry Bird’s 53rd birthday. Now, while Larry was a great basketball player for the Boston Celtics in his day, I don’t think anyone ever considered him to be one of America’s sexiest guys.
That got me thinking about “People Who Are Lucky To Have Gotten Talent Because They Sure [...]

THE ANNIVERSARY OF ONE OF TELEVISION’S GREATEST BLUNDERS

On November 17, 1968, millions of American football fans were watching the New York Jets battle the Oakland Raiders in a game aired over NBC.  At 7:00 p.m., with a minute left to go in the fourth quarter and the Jets protecting a 32-29 lead, NBC programmers aborted the telecast to begin a regularly schedule [...]

WHO WAS THE FIRST NBA PLAYER TO SHATTER A BASKETBALL BACKBOARD?

November 5th is the anniversary of the first shattered basketball backboard by an NBA player, but you might be surprised to learn who did that. The first NBA backboard was shattered during the pregame warm-up in the Boston Garden in 1946 by, then Boston Celtic, Chuck Conners who also played baseball with the Brooklyn [...]