Friday, September 14, 2007

Sports fact


More than 1,800 medals are awarded at the Olympics.

Track athletes are most likely to break records later in the day, when their body temperatures are highest.

A chinese checkerboard has 121 holes.

In a deck of cards, all four Kings have beards, but only three of them also have mustaches. The one without a mustache is the King of Hearts.

A bowling pin only needs to tilt 7.5 degrees to fall down.

The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.

There are 225 squares on a scrabble board.

Five-Card Poker has 2,598,960 possible hands.

The SEC leads the NCAA in total major violations of rules since recording began in 1953 with 42 violations.

More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world!

A soccer ball has 32 panels.

Pittsburgh is the only U.S. city with 3 sports teams that wear the same colors.

It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year’s supply of footballs.

Golf balls can reach speeds of 170 miles an hour.

A hockey puck weighs .38 lb.

1 comment:

Ahmad Halim Sholeh said...

wow,,,amazing...must alway sporting...kind of sport... playing football i like it...i like sport...