Sports Facts

    Random Sports Facts

    There are 40 Sports Facts!

    So that's how they cheat - a microwaved baseball will fly farther than a frozen baseball.
    226
    Yao Ming's Father Was the Tallest Man in China, Mother Was Tallest Female Basketball Player
    The Chinese government "encouraged" the country's tallest female basketball player to marry the country's tallest man. Their child was Yao Ming.
    24
    Babe Ruth wore No. 3 because he batted third.
    45
    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.
    16
    Pittsburgh is the only city where all major sports teams have the same colors: Black and gold.
    113
    The Stanley Cup originally was only seven and a half inches high.
    41
    There is a sport called Banzai Skydiving. You throw the parachute out of the airplane first and then jump after it.
    17
    In 2011, two men paraglided from the summit of Mt. Everest, arriving at a village in 42 minutes and avoiding the dangerous conventional 3 day descent.
    6