Miscellaneous Sports Trivia About Professional Ice Hockey, Golf Tournaments, Pitchers, Basketball, Green Bay Packers, and More!

 

Sports and game trivia including baseball, football, basketball, racing, track, the Olympics, and more.

To boost his chances of retrieving a home-run ball, what baseball-loving movie star paid $6,537 for several hundred seats behind the left-field fence for a 1996 game at Anaheim Stadium?
A: Charlie Sheen, who attended the game with three friends. they came up empty-handed --no homers were hit their way.

What item found in the picket of pitcher Tom Seaver's New York Mets game jacket--worn from 1967 through 1969--brought $440 at auction?
A: A toothpick.

What professional ice hockey star didn't hang up his skates until he was 52--and had played in 2,421 games?
A: Gordie Howe. He played for 32 seasons--26 in the National Hockey League and six in the World Hockey Association --racking up 1,071 goals, 1,518 assists and 2,418 penalty minutes.

What immodest two-word statement is on basketball great Michael Jordan's Illinois vanity license plate?
A: RARE AIR.

Why were there two kickoffs at the start of the second half of Superbowl I?
A: NBC was running a commercial and missed the first kickoff. Officials nullified the play and had the half star over again.  the 1967 game ended with the Green Bay Packers beating the Kansas City Chiefs, 35 - 10.

How many times does a sprinter, running at top speed, make contact with the ground during a 100-meter (328-foot) race?
A: Approximately 40.

What error record did New York Yankee pitcher Tommy John set in a 1988 base ball game against the Milwaukee Brewers?
A: He made three errors in a single play. He bobbled a slow roller and threw too late to get the batter at first base, his throw was wild and went into right field, then he cut off the throw to home plate and made a second wild throw. Despite all this, the Yankees won the game 16-3 and John had only four errors for the season.

How many players are on a hurling team?
A: 15.

Who was the first American golfer to break 60 on 18 holes in a major tournament?
A: Sam Snead, who shot a 59 (31 out, 28 in), 11 strokes under par, in the 1959 Greenbrier Open at White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. The competition has since been renamed the Sam Snead Festival Golf Tournament.

Who was the first sports figure to be featured on the covers of Time, Sports Illustrated, Newsweek and U.S. News and World Report on the same day?
A: Basketball great Magic Johnson, on February 12, 1996--when he returned to the Los Angeles Lakers.

How thick is a regulation ice hockey puck?
 A: 1 inch. It's 3 inches in diameter.

How long did the longest wrestling match in Olympic history last?
A: 11 hours and 40 minutes. The match, a Greco-Roman middleweight bout at the 1912 Olympics was between Estonian Martin Klein and Finn Alfred Asikainen. Klein won, but was too exhausted to compete in the final. He ended up with the silver medal: Askiainen with the bronze.

What happens at a golf tournament when a competitor sign his card and it ahs the wrong score?
A: If the score on the card is lower than his actual score, he's disqualified. If it's higher, it replaces his score.

When Harvard and Yale competed in the first U.S. intercollegiate athletic contest, what was the event?
A: A boat race, in 1852.