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After struggling for most of its existence as a franchise, the New England Patriots’ fortunes have changed greatly over the last decade. This post details the complete Super Bowl history of the Patriots, including their record, game-by-game results, MVPs, and more.
The Sports Muse presents the Super Bowl’s “truly elite” plays, the top 2/10 of 1% of all plays ever run in a Super Bowl. The cream of the crop, the top of the heap, the best 13 plays in the history of the Super Bowl.
For the first time in years family members won’t be asking each other, “Why are we stuck with the Lions on Thanksgiving?” as they pass the mashed potatoes. But do you know how football on Thanksgiving became the American tradition it is today? Josh Tinley fills you in with this brief but comprehensive history of Turkey Day football.
The Dallas Mavericks bring the Larry O’Brien trophy home to Dallas for the first time, and the 2011 NBA title win gives both Dirk Nowitzki and Jason Kidd their first NBA Championship. Here is a post to track the number of NBA Championships that each franchise has won. You can also see the overall Team [...]
In this post, we give you a table that lists the teams in order of most Super Bowl wins and then goes in reverse order of the losingest teams in Super Bowl history. Additionally, you can see the all-time team Super Bowl records for each organization that has participated in at least one.
History shows that 0-2 teams advance to the playoffs more often than people might think. Since the current playoff format was instituted in 1990, 22 teams started 0-2 and still qualified for the postseason.
The popularity of growing out a beard during the playoffs is hitting an all-time high. While there is only one rule for playoff beards, the phenomenon does have a colorful (and hairy) history.
In perhaps the most ironic instance of delayed athletic redemption in the history of sports, former Pirates pitcher Steve Blass — the inspiration for the term “Steve Blass Disease” — hit two holes-in-one during a single 18-hole round of golf.
History. Tradition. Dominance. Drunk college students. Pink locker rooms. Penises.
What do these terms all have in common? They are included in KVB’s rankings of the best Big Ten football stadiums.
MSF’s resident college football junkie ranks the Big Ten football stadiums #1 to #11, providing useful history and commentary for each. And since KVB converted to Tresselanity earlier this decade, it shouldn’t take you long to guess which stadium comes in at #1.
Mark Buehrle has joined ultra-select company by becoming one of only six pitchers in Major League Baseball history to throw a perfect game and a no-hitter. And you can narrow that list down even further, as Buehrle joins Sandy Koufax and Cy Young as having the greatest combined two-game, 18-inning pitching lines in baseball history.
As baseball fans prepare for the 2009 MLB All Star Game tonight in St. Louis, MSF takes a trip down memory lane to look at the history of the Midsummer Classic with the year-by-year results and winners, as well as career and single-game individual All Star Game records.
And White Sox fans will be interested to know where the first MLB All Star Game was played back in 1933. (Hint: it was in Chicago, but not at a ballpark that makes great managers want to puke.)
As the Detroit Lions reportedly zero in on Matthew Stafford (pictured left), JRod has a message for NFL teams and fans as the 2009 NFL Draft approaches: listen to George Santayana and pay heed to the unsuccessful history of drafting junior QBs in the the first round of the NFL Draft.
Ignore history and, as Santayana famously said, you are condemned to repeat it.
