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All-Star Games

All-Star Games Multiple MVP winners: Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux (3); Bobby Hull and Frank Mahovlich (2).Year Host Coaches Most Valuable Player1947 All-Stars 4, Toronto 3 Toronto Dick…

Brewer's: Isthmian Games

Epsom races were styled “Our Isthmian Games” by Lord Palmerston, in allusion to the famous games consisting of chariot races, running, wrestling, boxing, etc., held by the Greeks in the…

Scoring a Baseball Game

The Question: Why is "K" used to score strikes in baseball? The Answer: According to Total Baseball, The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Baseball,…

Service Game Leaders

AcesNoMtchs1Goran Ivanisevic894612Richard Krajicek799543Mark Philippoussis757544Greg Rusedski665525Marc-Kevin Goellner544466Pete Sampras510487Alex Radulescu502478Patrick Rafter488719Magnus…

The All-Star Game

The All-Star Game Baseball’s first All-Star Game was held on July 6, 1933, before 47,595 at Comiskey Park in Chicago. From that year on, the All- Star Game has matched the best players in the…

Consecutive Game Streaks

Consecutive Game StreaksRegular season games through 2004.Games PlayedGm Dates of Streak2632 Cal Ripken Jr., Bal 5/30/82 to 9/19/982130 Lou Gehrig, NY 6/1/25 to 4/30/391307 Everett Scott,…

Semifinal—Game One

Southeast Regional champ Arizona vs. East Regional champ North Carolina; Saturday, Mar. 29 (5:42 p.m. tipoff). Coaches: Lute Olson, Arizona and Dean Smith, North Carolina. Favorite: North…

Semifinal—Game Two

Midwest Regional champion Minnesota vs. West Regional champ Kentucky; Saturday, Mar. 29 (8:07 p.m. tipoff). Coaches: Clem Haskins, Minnesota and Rick Pitino, Kentucky. Favorite: Kentucky by…

Brewer's: Black Game

Heath-fowl; in contradistinction to red game, as grouse. The male bird is called a blackcock. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Black GenevanBlack Friday A B…

Brewer's: Nemean Games

(The). One of the four great national festivals of Greece, celebrated at nemea, in Argolis, every alternate year, the first and third of each Olympiad. The victor's reward was at first a…