it's on the way up man, don't sleep. that 35% of australian registered bball players are in the southeast corridor of melbourne is pretty incredible

bradman is ridiculous obv. there's all kinds of anecdotes about him practicing hitting the ball against a wooden paling fence with a wicket (like using half a broomstick) for hours straight, this is impressive because hitting anything off a paling fence is obv gonna produce some unexpected bounces, and a cricket ball itself is irregularly shaped and prone to random deviations. not to mention how physically demanding that is, one of the few people who'd probably be able to step into any era and be the best player

Gretzky?

How bout Wilt averaging 48.5 minutes that season. lol

preach it baby

Cumberland disbanded their football team during the summer/offseason that year. But they had a contract with GT and GT wouldn't let them out of it for some *******-ish reason, and GT was gonna make them pay thousands of dollars for breaking the contract. So Cumberland literally sent up a group of 14 dudes to stand on the field.

GT had 40 plays from scrimmage and 32 touchdowns.
Cumberland rushed 27 times for -96 yards and went 2-18 in passing for 14 yards.

that Alexander Karelin point-less streak is amazing, wow

1912 Summer Olympics:

-A Greco-Roman Wrestling bout between Klein and Asikainen lasted 11 hours and forty minutes—the world's longest wrestling match.
-Swedish marksman Oscar Swahn became the oldest Olympic gold medalist (up to that time), at the age of 64, in the deer-shooting event.
-Francisco Lázaro, a Portuguese runner died from a heart attack while running the marathon, the first athlete in the history of the modern Olympics to die during competition.
-Shizo Kanakuri, a Japanese marathoner went missing during the race. He lost his consciousness during the race due to the heat and was cared for by a farming family. He returned to Japan without notifying race officials. He unofficially completed the race 50 years later with a (unofficial) time of 54 years, 8 months, 6 days, 8 hours, 32 minutes and 20.3 seconds.





But yeah, Karelin's streak is ridiculous.

Moss was drafted so low because of character issues. He had a TD in every single game he played in college, had 55 TDs in his two years, and the 2nd year they were D I-A, which stepped up the competition. Everybody knew he was the man.

The Flyers went undefeated for a North American professional sports record 35 straight games (25–0–10), before losing 7–1 at Minnesota,

the amazing thing about this to me is that when they finally lost it was by 6 goals

yeah 2nd best is 10, which coincidently is the number of finals he made in a row

Randy Moss goes top5 if teams weren't scared of his off-field issues, Moss in college was a god, Rice will end up having a better pro career(though Moss in NE has at least reemerged to make it somewhat interesting), but Moss was clearly a much bigger prospect

10 ties? pfft not as impressive as winning 17 straight like the 92-93 Pens did

If that's the case, then the fact that they were able to amass 14 yards passing may be the most impressive stat from the game.

Oh, also the baseball score from the previous year was 22-0 Cumberland. Pretty genius of GT coach Heisman to make the football score 222-0.

cricket?

Can someone explain a little more in depth wtf this means..

Along the same lines, Cael Sanderson never losing a college wrestling match.

God damn he was good.

didn't the Rockies win 19 straight to close out the season and make the wild card a couple years ago?

The most amazing stat to me involves Jerry Rice. No player in the history of the NFL has even 1 receiving yard at the age of 40 or older, besides Jerry Rice. He had 2509.

http://www.pro-football-reference.co...der_by=rec_yds

This blog post at NFL Reference has some more cool Jerry Rice = god info:
http://www.pro-football-reference.com/blog/?p=5473

edit: He was the only person with a reception at the age of 40 or older (185 total) until Favre apparently caught a pass last year for -2 yards. ****ing Favre ruining cool records.

come on that's funny

Yeah cricket. It's the batting average of every international cricketer in history (with some sort of minimum innnings requirement). It's similar to a baseball batting average except it is basically an all encompassing batting stat - if you are looking to rank batsman within an era for their batting skills (basically) ALL you need is their batting average, unlike in baseball where pure average is a slightly shallow stat.

So yeah, 2nd highest average of all time is ~ 62, he average 99.94.

but crickett isn't a real sport

it's the realest sport

WTF, this used to be an olympic sport?

well when you put it into that context ... holy ****

Soccer:

For three years and three months (June 1986 – September 1989), Steaua Bucuresti counted a number of 104 unbeaten matches in the league, establishing, at that moment, a former world record and a European one still standing. Also inside the national league, they counted 112 matches between November 1989 and August 1996 of unbeatability at Stadionul Ghencea in Liga I. Their run of 17 straight wins in 1988 is another record, equal to the one held by Dinamo as of one year later.[50]


However, there is allegation of matchfixing and such.

That's also in a weak league. Arsenal went an entire premier league season (38 games) undefeated a few years back.

Your other thread displayed a clear misunderstanding of the term goat. GOAT = Greatest Of All Time, like Michael Jordan is the GOAT in basketball. It doesn't mean someone who is famous for messing up, like the Bill Buckner example you gave.

Okay, I'm going to get a lot of the terminology wrong but I'm going to try to explain the basics of the sport as I understand them to what I suspect is a mostly baseball crowd here that doesn't know diddly about cricket.

In cricket you continue batting as long as you don't make an out. So you hit the ball in play and run out to the only other base and then back to the batting area and that counts as 2 runs. You can also get a 4 or a 6 if you hit it far enough.

Anyway, getting 50 runs in a row before you are finally put out is a pretty good bat. An out is similar to baseball such as somebody catching the ball in the air...and remember, they don't have gloves...or by the bowler (that's the pitcher in baseball) knocking off the wicket behind the batsman which is like a baseball strikeout basically. You don't have to run after you make contact with the ball. If you decide not to and just knock it away to keep it from hitting the wicket then that's like it being a foul ball. But in cricket you are allowed to hit it backwards and then take off running if you want so you have a lot of field to work with and the bases are really close so it's not much running anyway. So that's how guys can get 50 runs in a row in cricket which is kind of a goofy concept to those of us who only know baseball.

Getting a 100 is tremendous and is considered a really good game (or "innings" actually). Averaging a freaking 100 was considered completely impossible before he did that. The all-time record for a single at-bat is 400. Yes...that's 400 runs by one player in a single at-bat.

Bradman holds the record for the most 200's with 12 of them. Only three people have twice made a 300 and he is one of them of course.