Every Goal Pele Scored at a World Cup
In July 1950, a nine-year-old boy in Bauru watched his father cry as Brazil lost the deciding match of a home World Cup to Uruguay, and made him a promise: “Don’t worry, I will... Read More →
Author: Jax Cole
Every Tom Brady Super Bowl Touchdown Pass
Tom Brady won the Super Bowl seven times, which is more than any NFL franchise has managed. The Patriots and the Steelers have six apiece. Everyone else is chasing a man who was drafted... Read More →
Every Quarterback Myles Garrett Sacked in His Record-Breaking Season
The night before the final game of the 2025 season, Myles Garrett dreamed that he missed the record. He said so afterward, along with his conclusion on waking: fate would have to be denied.... Read More →
Every Goal Cristiano Ronaldo Has Scored at the World Cup
Cristiano Ronaldo has scored World Cup goals on five continents. Nobody sets out to compile a statistic like that. The tournament simply moves – Europe, then Africa, then South America, back to Europe, then... Read More →
Every Act That Played Woodstock in 1969
Woodstock did not happen in Woodstock. The festival borrowed its name from the artists’ colony in Ulster County, New York, where Bob Dylan was living and where its four young promoters hoped to build... Read More →
Every Triple Crown of Acting Winner
There is no Triple Crown of Acting. No academy hands it out, no committee meets to confer it, no statuette exists for the shelf. The phrase was lifted from horse racing – where a... Read More →
Every Winner at the First Grammy Awards (1959)
On the night of May 4, 1959, the recording industry handed out its first Grammy Awards at two black-tie dinners held at the same hour on opposite coasts – one in the Grand Ballroom... Read More →
Every Toy in Toy Story 5
Toy Story 5 opens with a wedding. Bonnie, eight years old now, marries a plastic spork to a plastic knife named Karen Beverly, casts Buzz Lightyear as best man and a tyrannosaur as maid... Read More →
Every Member of the First Baseball Hall of Fame Class (1936)
There was a second ballot in 1936, and it elected nobody. Alongside the writers choosing the modern stars, a panel of seventy-eight old-timers was asked to pick the great players of the nineteenth century,... Read More →
Every Charter Member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (1963)
When the Pro Football Hall of Fame first opened its doors, five of the seventeen men it was enshrining were not alive to see it. Joe Carr had been dead twenty-four years; Jim Thorpe,... Read More →
