Sports Facts
The strings on tennis rackets used to be made with sheep intestines.
If you drove a golf ball on the moon, it would travel nearly 4917 yards or 2.5 miles and would take 69.8 seconds for the ball to land. This can be achieved by a typical amateur golfer with an average swing speed of 90 mph or more.
A man in Mississippi was briefly imprisoned for “sorcery” in 1884 after throwing a curveball at a county fair.
There are 635,013,559,599 possible hands in a game of bridge.
Golf was played on the moon. Back in February 6, 1971, Apollo 14 member Alan Shepard hit a ball with a six-iron, swinging one-handed as a result of his pressure suit.
The former Indian international cricketer Sachin Tendulkar first played for Pakistan before India. This incident happened during a practice match between the arch-rivals at the Brabourne Stadium in 1987, when he came on the field as a substitute fielder for Pakistan.
When asked why he didn't win gold in cross country at the 2010 olympics, norwegian skier Odd-Bjoern Hjelmeset said "I think I have seen too much porn in the last 14 days".
In the ancient Greek Olympics, wrestling matches were in the nude and a match did not end until one of the competitors became aroused.
On the morning of 11/11/11 South Africa needed 111 runs to win at 11:11. This occurred during the first cricket test match between South Africa and Australia at Cape Town.
Boxing legend Rocky Marciano invented the fax machine.
There are 18 minutes of total action in a baseball game.
At the first modern olympics, winners were awarded silver medals.
The youngest person to win an X-Games snowboard event was Chloe Kim at age 14.
Shahid Afridi the Pakistani cricketer used his arch rival - India's Sachin Tendulkar's bat to hit the fastest ever ODI century
Golf balls were once made of leather and feathers.
Adidas spent 2 ½ years designing the soccer ball for the 2014 World Cup.
A typical basketball has a lifespan of 10,000 bounces.
Greece is the only country to have participated in every olympics under its own flag.
The state sport of Alabama is figure skating.
India is the only country to win the 60-Over, 50-Over and 20-Over Cricket World Cup.
It takes twice as long to lose new muscle if you stop working out than it did to gain it.
Kabaddi is the only sport in which the Indian team, both men and women, have won all the world cups since its conception.
The Houston Rockets did not discover until the 14th game of the 1984–85 NBA season that their home arena rims were set at 9-feet, 7-inches.
The grass at Wimbledon was kept two inches long until 1949 when an English player was bitten by a snake.
Shaun White became a professional snowboarder at age 13.
“Federer” can be typed entirely with the left hand.
The highest air on a snowboard ever achieved was 32.2 feet.
People have snowboarded in Antarctica.
Each year approximately 7,000 sledders age 16 and younger are taken to the emergency room for head injuries.
The longest rail ever ridden on a snowboard was 275.5 feet
The most flips ever done on a snowboard in one jump was 4.
Snowboarding first became an Olympic Sport in 1998.
Richard Stokes is the only person to have witnessed Jim Laker and Anil Kumble taking 10 wickets in a single cricket innings.
The West Indies cricketer Chris Gayle is the only batsman to hit a six off the first ball of a Test match.
Former english cricket team captain Alec Stewart, was born on 8-4-63 and he scored 8463 Test runs.
In 1904, US President Theodore Roosevelt threatened to outlaw football after 19 college football players were killed or paralyzed from brain or spinal cord injuries.
Shaun White has won the more X-Games medals (16) that any other snowboarder.
There are an estimated 300,000 sports-related brain concussions in the US each year.
The first football helmet used during a game was worn when Army played Navy in 1893.
Bicycle helmets reduce the risk for head injury by as much as 85% and reduce the risk for brain injury by as much as 88%.