Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about basketball and whether they are true or false. Click here to view an archive of the basketball urban legends featured so far. BASKETBALL URBAN LEGEND: Chuck Connors was once punished in a peculiar fashion for his reaction to a tough loss against […]
Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about basketball and whether they are true or false. Click here to view an archive of the basketball urban legends featured so far. BASKETBALL URBAN LEGEND: Jim Thorpe played professional basketball. One of the neat things about the study of history is that […]
Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about basketball and whether they are true or false. Click here to view an archive of the basketball urban legends featured so far. BASKETBALL URBAN LEGEND: Danny Ainge once bit Tree Rollins during a playoff game. A good deal of legends revolve around […]
Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about football and whether they are true or false. Click here to view an archive of the football urban legends featured so far. FOOTBALL URBAN LEGEND: A paternity test was done on George Gipp – almost seventy-seven years after he died! George Gipp […]
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Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about football and whether they are true or false. Click here to view an archive of the football urban legends featured so far. FOOTBALL URBAN LEGEND: The NFL tried to trademark “The Big Game.” The National Football League is quite strict when it […]
Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about tennis and whether they are true or false. TENNIS URBAN LEGEND: Stefan Edberg once killed a man with his tennis serve. Stefan Edberg was one of the best tennis players of his generation, and was actually ranked #1 in the world at […]
Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about tennis and whether they are true or false. TENNIS URBAN LEGEND: A Wimbledon official (and past Wimbledon competitor) was asked to resign over his design of a female tennis player’s underwear. When Ted Tingling was 13, a bad case of asthma forced […]
Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about tennis and whether they are true or false. TENNIS URBAN LEGEND: Bjorn Borg had a pulse rate of 45 beats per minute. Often in our zeal to celebrate legendary athletes, we sometimes begin to, well, create legends about these legendary athletes, often […]
Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about baseball and whether they are true or false. Click here to view an archive of the baseball urban legends featured so far. BASEBALL URBAN LEGEND: Charlie Kerfeld sought to commemorate his uniform number when it came time to renegotiate his contract after […]
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