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Tom Brady played his last playoff game on a Monday night in Tampa on January 16, 2023, three days short of twenty-one years after he played his first, in a snowstorm in Foxborough, Massachusetts.... Read More →
EA Sports put 161 different footballers on the front of a FIFA box between 1993 and 2022. It shipped nineteen separate covers for FIFA 16 and eighteen for FIFA 10, so that a Hungarian... Read More →
The most famous pass Joe Montana ever threw is not on this list. The Catch – the leaping, fingertip touchdown to Dwight Clark that beat Dallas – came in the NFC Championship Game, two... Read More →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Every unassisted triple play in MLB history is properly documented by definitive sources, except for the very first one. On May 8, 1878, the Providence Grays’ center fielder Paul Hines charged a sinking line... Read More →
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