historical Stories - Beyond the Box Score
Holiday Bowl - 2000
is showing on ESPN Classic. We're all pretty much starved for Texas football right now, right? I've never seen it on TV since this is the one out of state Texas game I chose to attend. This should be fun. Pick it up just after Oregon goes 80 yards to score on their opening drive (only the third...
Charts of the Day
This chart shows the percentage of regular season NHL games that were decided in regulation time, going back to the 1967-68 expansion. The introduction of overtime in the 1983-84 season did nothing to change the outcome of regulation play. In fact, it wasn't until the league-wide goal-scoring...
How Many Seasons Would it Take?
To match Barry Bonds' career Wins Above Replacement value? Thanks to new Historical WAR Data -- courtesy of BaseballProjection.com -- we can see how many wins above replacement-level a player contributed over his career. Since 1954, Barry Bonds has a career total of 175.1 wins above replacement....
Certain photos copyright © 2012 by Associated Press or Getty Images. Any commercial use or distribution without the express written consent of Associated Press and Getty Images is strictly prohibited.
