Portal:Sports and games/Did you know
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- ...that the layback spin (pictured) was invented by 1936 Winter Olympics silver medalist Cecilia Colledge?
- ...that modern billiard chalk, which is not actually chalk but a compound of silica and corundum, was invented by player William A. Spinks and a chemist friend in 1897?
- ...that even though Denis Potvin retired in 1988, fans of the New York Rangers still practice a tradition aimed at insulting him?
- ...that tug of war was included in the Olympic Games from 1900 until 1920?
- ...that Tony Dungy (pictured) led the Pittsburgh Steelers in interceptions in their 1978 Super Bowl Championship season?
- ...that DONKEY.BAS was a computer game cowritten by Bill Gates and included with early versions of the PC-DOS operating system for the original IBM PC, in which the player must avoid hitting donkeys?
- ...that in the history of Major League Baseball, twelve batters have hit two grand slams in the same game?
- ...that Bridgett Riley lost her contact lenses in the fifth round of a boxing match against Theresa Arnold on September 19, 1996, leading to her first ever defeat?
- ... that the game Monopoly (pictured) was initially rejected by both Milton Bradley and Parker Brothers?
- ...that the earliest record of Gaelic handball is the 1527 town statutes of Galway, Ireland, which forbade the playing of ball games against the walls?
- ...that the 2007 Fiesta Bowl ended on a Statue of Liberty play from Jared Zabransky to Ian Johnson, giving theBoise State Broncos the winning two-point conversion?
- ... that the first reference to chess in literature appears in India about 500 BC in Brahmajala Sutta in Digha Nikaya?
- ... that the first Rose Bowl game (pictured) was played between Fielding Yost's Michigan Wolverines and Stanford?
- ... that the first collectible card game was The Base Ball Card Game produced by The Allegheny Card Co. and registered on April 5, 1904
- ... that the British ice hockey team The Blackburn Hawks are often referred to as the Blackhawks, and were briefly called the Lancashire Hawks?
- ... that Russian President Vladimir Putin said, "Chess makes man wiser and clear-sighted"?
