"SpOrTs quote"

"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
Michael Jordan 

Michael Jordan

Michael Jeffrey Jordan, also known by his initials, MJ, is an American former professional basketball player, entrepreneur, and majority owner and chairman of the Charlotte Bobcats.

BIRTHDAY BASH....!!!!

1895 - C K Nayudu, cricketer (brother of C S, India's 1st Test capt)
Cottari Kanakaiya Nayudu, also known as 'CK', was the first captain of the Indian cricket team in Test matches. He played first-class cricket regularly till 1958, and returned for one last time in 1963 at the age of 68. 

1959 - Ann Henricksson, St Paul MN, tennis star

Ann Henricksson was an American professional tennis player from 1981 to 1994. She played two fourth-round Grand Slam matches: in 1985, in the Australian Open and in 1990, at Wimbledon. Ann Henricksson won three WTA doubles tournaments. 

BIRTHDAY BASH....!!!!

1962 - Courtney Walsh, cricketer (WI pace bowler, hat-trick v Aust 1988)
 former international cricketer (fast bowler) who represented the West Indies from 1984 to 2001, captaining the West Indies in 22 Test matches. He is best known for a remarkable opening bowling partnership along with fellow West Indian Curtly Ambrose for several years and holding the record of most Test Wickets from 2000, after he broke the record of Kapil Dev. This record was later broken in 2004 by Shane warne.

Walsh was not as successful although he will be remembered for his best performance, 5 wickets for just 1 run against Sri Lanka in 1986. In first-class cricket, he took 5 wickets in an innings more than 100 times and 10 wickets in a match 20 times. Walsh's feats with the bat are rather less flattering, as indicated by an average of seven in both Test cricket and ODIs. He also holds the record for the most Test ducks (43), but also for the most "not outs" – 61 times. His highest score, coincidentally, was 30 in both forms of the game.

SPORT FACT #15

SPORT FACT# 15

The youngest golfer recorded to have shot a hole-in-one is Coby Orr (5 years) of Littleton, CO on the 103 yd fifth at the Riverside Golf Course, San Antonio, TX in 1975.

SPORT FACT#13
The five interlocking rings of the Olympic flag symbolize the five continents of the world (Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Americas) "linked together in friendship." Olympics founder Pierre de Coubertin claimed that at least one of the rings' colors (blue, yellow, black, green, and red, along with the white background) was present in each country's national flag.

SPORT FACT#14

The longest Tennis point ever played lasted for 29 minutes and 643 shots!

On September 24, 1984 Vicki Nelson and Jean Hepner, at the time ranked 93 and 172 in the world, engaged in what is still the longest point played in a professional tennis match.

This whopper of a point lasted for 29 minutes and 643 exchanged shots between the two of them. The match itself lasted for 6 hours and 31 minutes which was the longest match ever played for over 20 years. It still hold the record for being the longest match completed on the same day.

"SpOrTs Quote"

"There is no glory in practice, but without practice, there is no glory..."

"SpOrTs Quote"

"Don't practice until you get it right. Practice until you can't get it wrong"

SPORT FACT#11
A bowling pin only needs to tilt 7.5 degrees to fall down.

SPORT FACT#12
Up until 1994 the Olympics were held every four years. Since then, the Winter and Summer games have alternated every two years.

SPORT FACT#9
Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and Australia have participated in every Games.

SPORT FACT#10
Canada had beaten Denmark 47-0 at the 1949 Ice world hockey championships.....!!!!

BIRTHDAY BASH...!!!!

1910 - Marie Dollinger, Germany, dropped bataan in 1936 Olympic sprint
Marie Dollinger married [Friedrich Hendrix] in 1937 and their child, Brunhilde Hendrix, also became an Olympic sprinter, with her husband winning silver in the sprint relay in 1932 and her daughter in 1960. What might have been her biggest success was marred by the disqualification of the German 4 x 100 relay team at the Berlin Olympics when she and Ilse Dörffeldt dropped the baton on the final exchange, despite having a big lead. In the heat they had set a world record with 46.4 seconds. She was the only German track & field athlete before World War II to take part in three Olympic Games (1928-36). In 1928 she took part in the first 800 m for women, placing seventh. In 1931 she set a world record with 2:16.8 but she then turned to sprinting when the 800 was dropped from the Olympic Program.

Dollinger also set several other relay world records, three in the 4x100 and one in the 3x800. Domestically she won the titles at 800 metres in 1929-31, over 200 metres in 1931 and 1933, and over 100 metres in 1932. She took part in the 1930 and 1934 Women’s World Games, winning a silver over 800 metres in 1930 and a gold in the 4 x 100 relay in 1934. In 1954 she was awarded the Golden Needle of the German Track & Field Association.

1945 - Dennis Lillie [sic], cricketer (Queensland leg-spinner 1965-66/80-82)

1949 - Bruce Jenner, born in Mount Kisco, New York, decathalete 1976 Olympics gold 

SPORT FACT#7
Olympic Badminton rules say that the birdie has to have exactly fourteen feathers.

SPORT FACT#8
Mark McGwire's record-setting 70 home runs in the 1998 season traveled a total of 29,598 feet, enough to fly over Mount Everest.

SPORT FACT#5
NORWAY has won the most medals (303) at the Winter Games.

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA has won more medals (2,653) at the Summer Games than any other country.

SPORT FACT#6
In a deck of cards, all four Kings have beards, but only three of them also have mustaches. The one without a mustache is the King of Hearts.

BIRTHDAY BASH...!!!!

1964 - +Mark Taylor, cricketer (genius Australian captain since 1994)
Mark Anthony Taylor, AO is a former Australian cricket player and Test opening batsman from 1988–1999, as well as captain from 1994–1999, succeeding Allan Border.


1977 - +Kumar Sangakkara, Sri Lankan cricketer
Kumar Chokshanada Sangakkara is a Sri Lankan cricketer and a former captain of the Sri Lanka national cricket team, who is widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen ever. 


1984 - +Irfan Pathan, Indian cricketer
Irfan Khan Pathan is an Indian cricketer who made his debut for India in late-2003 and was a core member of the national team until a decline in form set in during 2006, forcing him out of the team.

After killing a man in the ring, Sugar Ray Robinson gave that man's mom his earnings for his next 4 fights

Jim Doyle was born in 1924 and debuted as a boxer in 1941. He fought in a total of 53 fights and won 43 of them. In 1947, he challenged Sugar Ray Robinson for the World Welterweight Title and planned to buy his mother a house with the winnings. Doyle had suffered heavy knockouts in California prior to the fight and the boxing commission refused to allow him to participate in any more.

However, Robinson agreed to fight him and the results were disastrous. During the fight, Robinson had the advantage every round except the sixth. After staggering twice and then being hurt, Robinson responded with a single left hook that ended things. Doyle was struck in the head and his body went rigid.

Robinson described the event saying, “That punch knocked Jimmy rigid.... With heels resting against the canvas as if hinged, Doyle's body went down. It struck the floor with a thud, like a rigid mass falling. His head crashed against the padded canvas, and as the referee started the count. Doyle raised his head and rested on his elbows.... The referee counted to ten. Doyle was out."

He was quickly rushed to St. Vincent’s Charity Hospital but failed to regain consciousness and was pronounced dead several hours later. Criminal charged were threatened against Robinson for fighting him, but none ever materialized. Robinson felt so terrible for what he had done that he gave the earnings of his next four fights to Doyle’s mother, fulfilling Doyle’s last wish of buying her a house.

Read more at http://www.omg-facts.com/category/3/Sports/16#qZ1Luyro67Lbfi0H.99

A high school football coach had half of his fans cheer for the other team! Why?

Although Gainesville was certainly not a good team, he still had his boys play and directed half of the fans to make a banner, a tunnel, and even cheer for the other teams players by name! Although Gainesville lost 33-14, they still said they had the time of their lives and were in such good spirits, they even doused the coach in Gatorade!In Grapevine, Texas, the Grapevine Faith football team played one of the most interesting matches of their lives. They played Gainesville State School, which is a maximum-security correctional facility 75 miles north of Dallas. So why would the fans cheer for felons playing their children? It’s all because of the head coach. Faith’s head coach, Kris Hogan, said he wanted to do something special for high school students who have little happiness in their lives.

BIRTHDAY BASH...!!!!!

1950 - T E Srinivasan, cricketer (Indian opening batsman 1981)

Tirumalai Echambadi Srinivasan was a former Indian cricketer who played in one Test and 2 One Day Internationals from 1980 to 1981. Srinivasan was born in Chennai. 

1947 - Ian Ashley, British racing driver

Ian Hugh Gordon Ashley is a British racing driver who raced in Formula One for the Token, Williams, BRM and Hesketh teams. Ashley began racing in 1966 when he took a course at the Jim Russell Racing School.

1966 - Alex Pastoor, Dutch soccer player (FC Volendam)

Alexander "Alex" Pastoor, is a Dutch football manager and former player. Pastoor played as a midfielder. He is currently without a club.

An Olympic rower once stopped mid-race to allow ducklings to pass; he still won the race 

It turns out that Pearce was so good that he could afford to make the races a little harder on himself. In the quarter finals of the 1928 Olympics, Pearce pulled up during his race to let a mother duck and her ducklings pass in front of his boat.Henry 'Bobby' Pearce was one of the best scullers of the early 20th century. The Australian phenomenon won Gold Medals at both the 1928 and the 1932 Olympic Games. He came from a long line of talented scullers and his family is referred to as the "First Family" of Australian rowing.

Who could say no to those floating balls of fuzz? The crowd, especially the children were delighted by this act of kindness.

Pearce went on to beat his opponent, Frenchman V. Savrin, and easily win the race. He also set a new Olympic record of 7 minutes 42.8 seconds. He went on to win the gold, and thanks to both his prowess and the duckling incident, his was one of the most popular victories at that Olympics.

SPORT FACT

SPORT FACT#3:
In 1984, two tennis players had a 29-minute, 643-shot RALLY. It remains the longest in professional tennis history to this day.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/23/sports/tennis/24tennis.html?_r=0



SPORT FACT#4
Olympic Badminton rules say that the birdie has to have exactly fourteen feathers.

SPORT FACT

SPORT FACT#1
There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball !!!

SPORT FACT#2

300 million golf balls are lost or discarded in the United States alone, every year.