The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches!
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Tug of War was an Olympic event between 1900 and 1920.
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In 1910 football teams were penalized 15 yards for an incompleted forward pass.
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Basketball great Wilt Chamberlain never fouled out of a game.
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It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.
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There is a sport called Banzai Skydiving. You throw the parachute out of the airplane first and then jump after it.
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In 1998, Serena and Venus Williams said they could beat any man ranked 200 or worse in a game of tennis. Karsten Braasch, ranked 203, accepted the challenge and easily beat them, 6-1, 6-2.
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