Fun Facts of the Day Archive

2/17/06

Sports Fact of the Day
02/17/2001 - The top-ranked and unbeaten Notre Dame women's basketball team is upset, 54-53, by Rutgers at the RAC in Piscataway, New Jersey. Tammy Sutton-Brown leads the Lady Scralet Knights with 12 points, including a conventional 3-point play with 28 seconds left to establish the final winning margin. All-American Notre Dame center Ruth Riley is plagued by foul trouble, finishing with 12 points and only four rebounds, but she'll earn Most Outstanding Player honors in the finals of the NCAA tournament when the Irish win their first national title by beating Purdue.

Today's Sports Legend Birthdays
Red Barber (baseball) - 1908
Jim Brown (football) - 1936
Micheal Jordan (basketball) - 1963
Luc Robitaille (hockey) - 1966
Levon Kirkland (football) - 1969

"Redneck Word of the Day"
bayou - noun and verb. to purchase for another. "I just walked right up to her and said, 'Hey darlin', lemme bayou a drink.' "

2/15/06

Sports Fact of the Day
02/15/2004 - Race driver Dale Earnhardt, Jr. wins the Daytona 500 exactly six years after his father won this flagship stock car event on his 20th attempt. Driving a Chevrolet, Dale Jr. holds off Tony Stewart by several lengths at the finish to win NASCAR's traditional season opener on his fifth attempt. President Bush is on hand to issue the traditional "Gentlemen, start your engines" command.

Today's Sports Legend Birthdays
John Hadl (football) - 1940
Darrell Green (football) - 1960
Jaromir Jagr (hockey) - 1972
Amy Van Dyken (Olympic swimming) - 1973
Ugueth Urbina (baseball) - 1974

"Redneck Word of the Day"
barrier - noun and verb. to conceal or cover a female, usually under earth or debris. "She died while on vacation, so I think they decided to barrier on the beach."

2/14/06

Sports Fact of the Day
02/14/1993 - Current U.S. Open champion Tom Kite shoots a final-round 10-under-par 62 to win the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic at La Quinta, California, by six strokes over Rick Fehr. After losing here twice in sudden-death playoffs in the last decade, Kite leaves no doubt this time, carding a 35-under 325 to break the tournament record (331) shared by Corey Pavin and Mark O'Meara as well as the PGA Tour 90-hole standard (329) shared by Andrew Magee and D.A. Weibring. Kite finishes with a flourish, birdieing the last four holes to win the 18th tournament of his career and increase his all-time Tour-leading earnings to over $7.9 million.

Today's Sports Legend Birthdays
Woody Hayes (NCAA football) - 1913
Mickey Wright (golf) - 1935
Jim Kelly (football) - 1960
Mats Sundin (football) - 1972
Steve McNair (football) - 1973

"Redneck Word of the Day"
banner - noun and verb. to prohibit a female person from a specific location. "Cody's grandma cusses so much, they gonna banner from the Little League park."

2/13/06

Sports Fact of the Day
02/13/1942 - At 176 pounds, heavyweight Billy Conn has no trouble winning a unanimous 12-round decision over 164-pound middleweight champion Tony Zale in a one-sided nontitle bout at Madison Square Garden. There are no knockdowns as the popular Irishman from Pittsburgh dispatches the game but overmatched Zale. Many observers see this contest as merely a tune-up for Conn before a rematch for the heavyweight title with Joe Louis after their great fight last summer, but World War II will preclude a second meeting until 1946, when Conn will be no match for the Brown Bomber.

Today's Sports Legend Birthdays
Patty Berg (golf) - 1918
Eddie Robinson (baseball) - 1919
Mike Krzyzewski (NCAA basketball) - 1947
Mats Sundin (hockey) - 1971
Randy Moss (football) - 1977

"Redneck Word of the Day"
avenue - noun and verb. to declare possession of something recently acquired. "Avenue address, but I don't remember it."

Data Cell Birthday of the Day
Wayne Walker - 1964

2/03/06

Sports Fact of the Day
02/03 - Utah basketball coach Rick Majerus, forced to resign because of health problems related to obesity, owned up to his plight : "I need to go from Chippenwhale to a Chippendale."

Today's Sports Legend Birthdays
Emile Griffith (boxing) - 1938
Fran Tarkenton (football) - 1940
Bob Griese (football) - 1945
Vlade Divac (basketball) - 1968
Retief Goosen (golf) - 1969

"Redneck Word of the Day"
attacks- noun. a percentage of one's assets taken annually by a governing body. "If you let 'em, I swear the government would put attacks on the air."

1/20/06

Sports Fact of the Day
01/20/74 - Jim Harrison of the WHA's Alberta Oilers becomes the first player in the modern era to score 10 points in a big-league game, leading to an 11-3 blowout of the New York Raiders at Edmonton Gardens. Harrison's three goals and seven assists break the WHA single-game points record of seven established by Danny Lawson of Philadelphia earlier this season and the NHL standard of eight set by Montreal Canadians Rocket Richard (1944) and Bert Olmstead (1954).

Today's Sports Legend Birthdays
Walt Dropo (baseball) - 1923
Davey Johnson (baseball) - 1943
Curtis Strange (golf) - 1955
Payne Stewart (golf) - 1957
Jalen Rose (basketball) - 1973

"Redneck Word of the Day"
atom- preposition and noun. in the direction of something or someone. "Two deer jumped outta the woods and we just started shootin' atom."

1/20/06

Sports Fact of the Day
01/20/74 - Kurt Rambis, nicknamed "Clark Kent" because of his resemblance to the mild-mannered reporter who turns into Superman, scoops up a loose ball and scores at the buzzer to give the Charlotte Hornets an 89-88 win over the Utah Jazz. Despite ardent local support, the first-year franchise will finish 20-62 in its inaugural campaign.

Today's Sports Legend Birthdays
Bob Uecker (baseball) - 1935
Jack Youngblood (football) - 1950
Brian Doyle (baseball) - 1955
Wayne Gretzky (hockey) - 1961
Vince Carter (basketball) - 1977

"Redneck Word of the Day"
asthma- verb. to make an inquiry to a person of familiar acquaintance. "I don't know if I can go or not. Lemme asthma wife."

1/20/06

Sports Fact of the Day
01/20/74 - At age 26, Johnny Miller captures the Tucson Open by three strokes over rookie pro Ben Crenshaw and becomes the first golfer to win the first three events of the year on the PGA Tour. Following his impressive wins at Pebble Beach and Phoenix, Miller is now 37 under par for the year. A 40-foot birdie putt on the 10th hole today clinches the event in what will prove to be his finest season. He'll lead the PGA earnings list and be named Player of the Year.

Today's Sports Legend Birthdays
Carol Heiss (figure skating) - 1940
John Naber (Olympic swimmer) - 1956
Ozzie Guillen (baseball) - 1964
Ron Harper (basketball) - 1964
Brian Giles (baseball) - 1971

"Redneck Word of the Day"
aspect - noun and verb. having one's backside assulted by a sharp object. "He got done skinny-dippin', passed out on that deck chair, and had his aspect by a woodpecker."

1/19/06

Sports Fact of the Day
01/19/87 - Unassuming role player Louis Orr earns the hero's laurels for the Knicks on Martin Luther King Day at Madison Square Garden. After the Knicks squander a seven-point lead in the final minute, Orr hits a 22-foot jumper off glass from the head of the circle as time expires to beat Boston, 111-109. It's a fleeting moment of triumph for a struggling Knicks team against the defending NBA champions, and Orr is quickly engulfed by his joyous teammates after sinking his game-winning buzzer-beater.

Today's Sports Legend Birthdays
Bill Mlkvy (basketball) - 1931
O.J. Anderson (football) - 1957
Stefan Edberg (tennis) - 1966
Junior Seau (football) - 1969
Tyrone Wheatley (football) - 1972

"Redneck Word of the Day"
asparagus - noun. ambivalence about having to install a replacement for an air-filled rubber wheel. "I got a flat, so I'm gonna have to put on asparagus."

01/18/06

Sports Fact of the Day
01/18/64 - The two-time defending champion Toronto Maple Leafs are thoroughly embarrassed on home ice by the worst team in the NHL as the Boston Bruins skate to an 11-0 romp at Maple Leaf Gardens. Boston scores six goals on only seven shots in the first period against Toronto goalie Don Simmons. Andy Hebenton and Dean Prentice each have hat tricks as Boston wins its third straight game for the first time in almost four years. Shaking off this debacle, the veteran Leafs team will win their third straight Stanley Cup this spring.

Today's Sports Legend Birthdays
Syl Apps (hockey) - 1915
Curt Flood (baseball) - 1938
Mark Messier (hockey) - 1961
Brady Anderson (baseball) - 1964
Mike Lieberthal (baseball) - 1972

"Redneck Word of the Day"
asinine - noun. favorable praise of the hind end, to the positive ninth integer. "Man, I would give her face a two and her asinine."

01/17/06

Sports Fact of the Day
01/17/04 - Delonte West leads St. Joseph's to an 81-73 victory over Xavier in Cincinnati. West, a junior guard and silky-smooth left-handed shooter, hits 9-for-9 from two-point range, 3-for-3 on treys, and 6-for-6 from the foul line for a career-high 33 points. The Hawks will complete a perfect regular season (27-0), earning their first-ever No. 1 national ranking, before stumbling to Xavier in the Atlantic-10 tournament and Oklahoma State in the Elite Eight of the NCAA tourney.

Today's Sports Legend Birthdays
Jacques Plante (hockey) - 1929
Kip Keino (Olympic runner) - 1940
Muhammad Ali (boxing) - 1942
Chili Davis (baseball) - 1960
Jeremy Roenick (hockey) - 1970

"Redneck Word of the Day"
armature - verb and adjective. displaying exceptional wisdom,experience, and/or age. "I know sometimes I act like a kid, but I really armature."

01/16/06

Sports Fact of the Day
01/16/70 - After African American fullback Sam "Bam" Cunningham led Southern Cal to a rout of Bear Bryant's all-white Alabama football team in the early 1970's, Crimson Tide assistant coach Jerry Claiborne proclaimed : "Sam Cunningham did more to integrate Alabama in sixty minutes than Martin Luther King accomplished in twenty years.

Today's Sports Legend Birthdays
Tom Gola (basketball) - 1933
Bob Baffert (horse racing) - 1953
Mark O'Meara (golf) - 1957
Kelly Hrudey (hockey) - 1961
Kevin Mitchell (baseball) - 1962

"Redneck Word of the Day"
Armageddon - noun and verb. putting oneself in a position for action. "I tell ya, if it gets any crazier, Armageddon outta here."