crouching start in 1908.
The expression “getting someone’s goat” is based on the custom of keeping a goat in the stable with a racehorse as the horse’s companion. The goat becomes a settling influence for the Thoroughbred. If you owned a competing horse and were not above some dirty business, you could steal your rival’s goat (it’s been done) to upset the other horse and make it run a poor race.
Anise is the scent on the artificial rabbit that is used in greyhound races.
BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM
Bulgaria was the only soccer team in the 1994 World Cup in which all the players’ last names ended with the letters “ov.”
Soccer is played in more countries than any other sport.
Soccer legend Pele’s real name is Edson Arantes do Nascimento.
The band Simply Red is named for its love for the soccer team Manchester United, which has a red home strip.
BLUE 42! HUT!
Green Bay Packers backup quarterback Matt Hasselbeck has been struck by lightning twice in his life.
It takes three thousand cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year’s supply of footballs.
An American football has four seams.
O. J. Simpson had a severe case of rickets and wore leg braces when he was a child.
The Super Bowl is broadcast in 182 countries. That is more than 88 percent of the countries in the world.
When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state’s third largest city.
FORE!
Rudyard Kipling, living in Vermont in the 1890s, invented the game of snow golf. He painted his golf balls red so he could locate them in the snow.
Americans spend more than $630 million a year on golf balls.
Before 1850, golf balls were made of leather and stuffed with feathers.
The fastest round of golf (18 holes) by a team was 9 minutes, 28 seconds, a record set in Worcester on September 9, 1996, at 10:40 A.M.
Golfing great Ben Hogan’s famous reply when asked how to improve one’s game was, “Hit the ball closer to the hole.”
In the United States, there are more than ten thousand golf courses.
Many Japanese golfers carry hole-?in-?one insurance, because it is traditional in Japan to share one’s good luck by sending gifts to all your friends when you get an ace. The price for what the Japanese term “an albatross” can often reach $10,000.
Pro golfer Wayne Levi was the first PGA pro to win a tournament using a colored (orange) ball. He did it in the Hawaiian Open.
Twelve new golf holes are constructed every day.
The only person ever to play golf on the moon was
Alan Shepard. His golf ball was never found. The Tom Thumb golf course was the first miniature golf course in the United States. It was built it 1929 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, by John Garnet Carter.
The United States Golf Association was founded in 1894 as the governing body of golf in the United States.
The youngest golfer recorded to have shot a hole-?in-?one is five-?year-?old Coby Orr of Littleton, Colorado, on the 103-yard fifth hole at the Riverside Golf Course in San Antonio, Texas, in 1975.
A regulation golf ball has 336 dimples.
Two golf clubs claim to be the first established in the United States: the Foxberg Golf Club in Clarion County, Pennsylvania (1887), and St. Andrews Golf Club of Yonkers, New York (1888).
KNOCK OUT
Boxing is considered the easiest sport for gamblers to fix.
Boxing rings are so called because they used to be round.
In 1985, Mike Tyson started boxing professionally at age eighteen.
Boxing is the most popular sport to create a film about.
Four men in the history of boxing have been knocked out in the first eleven seconds of the first round.
OLYMPIC FANFARE
Canada is the only country not to win a gold medal in the Summer Olympic Games while hosting the event.
Only two countries have participated in every modern Olympic Games: Greece and Australia.
The 1900 Olympics were held in Paris, France.
Tug-?of-?war was an Olympic event between 1900 and 1920.
The five Olympic rings
The expression “getting someone’s goat” is based on the custom of keeping a goat in the stable with a racehorse as the horse’s companion. The goat becomes a settling influence for the Thoroughbred. If you owned a competing horse and were not above some dirty business, you could steal your rival’s goat (it’s been done) to upset the other horse and make it run a poor race.
Anise is the scent on the artificial rabbit that is used in greyhound races.
BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM
Bulgaria was the only soccer team in the 1994 World Cup in which all the players’ last names ended with the letters “ov.”
Soccer is played in more countries than any other sport.
Soccer legend Pele’s real name is Edson Arantes do Nascimento.
The band Simply Red is named for its love for the soccer team Manchester United, which has a red home strip.
BLUE 42! HUT!
Green Bay Packers backup quarterback Matt Hasselbeck has been struck by lightning twice in his life.
It takes three thousand cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year’s supply of footballs.
An American football has four seams.
O. J. Simpson had a severe case of rickets and wore leg braces when he was a child.
The Super Bowl is broadcast in 182 countries. That is more than 88 percent of the countries in the world.
When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state’s third largest city.
FORE!
Rudyard Kipling, living in Vermont in the 1890s, invented the game of snow golf. He painted his golf balls red so he could locate them in the snow.
Americans spend more than $630 million a year on golf balls.
Before 1850, golf balls were made of leather and stuffed with feathers.
The fastest round of golf (18 holes) by a team was 9 minutes, 28 seconds, a record set in Worcester on September 9, 1996, at 10:40 A.M.
Golfing great Ben Hogan’s famous reply when asked how to improve one’s game was, “Hit the ball closer to the hole.”
In the United States, there are more than ten thousand golf courses.
Many Japanese golfers carry hole-?in-?one insurance, because it is traditional in Japan to share one’s good luck by sending gifts to all your friends when you get an ace. The price for what the Japanese term “an albatross” can often reach $10,000.
Pro golfer Wayne Levi was the first PGA pro to win a tournament using a colored (orange) ball. He did it in the Hawaiian Open.
Twelve new golf holes are constructed every day.
The only person ever to play golf on the moon was
Alan Shepard. His golf ball was never found. The Tom Thumb golf course was the first miniature golf course in the United States. It was built it 1929 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, by John Garnet Carter.
The United States Golf Association was founded in 1894 as the governing body of golf in the United States.
The youngest golfer recorded to have shot a hole-?in-?one is five-?year-?old Coby Orr of Littleton, Colorado, on the 103-yard fifth hole at the Riverside Golf Course in San Antonio, Texas, in 1975.
A regulation golf ball has 336 dimples.
Two golf clubs claim to be the first established in the United States: the Foxberg Golf Club in Clarion County, Pennsylvania (1887), and St. Andrews Golf Club of Yonkers, New York (1888).
KNOCK OUT
Boxing is considered the easiest sport for gamblers to fix.
Boxing rings are so called because they used to be round.
In 1985, Mike Tyson started boxing professionally at age eighteen.
Boxing is the most popular sport to create a film about.
Four men in the history of boxing have been knocked out in the first eleven seconds of the first round.
OLYMPIC FANFARE
Canada is the only country not to win a gold medal in the Summer Olympic Games while hosting the event.
Only two countries have participated in every modern Olympic Games: Greece and Australia.
The 1900 Olympics were held in Paris, France.
Tug-?of-?war was an Olympic event between 1900 and 1920.
The five Olympic rings
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