In December 2020, Major League Baseball officially recognized the seven leagues that collectively made up the Negro Leagues from 1920-48 as being Major Leagues. This belated recognition meant that the statistics of the approximately 3,400 players who performed in the Negro Leagues during those years - men who had been barred from playing in the National or American League simply because of their race - would be added to MLB's official historical records. Because record keeping in the Negro Leagu...

Bill Russell is widely considered one of the greatest players in both college basketball and NBA history. Ove the course of his playing and coaching career he achieved multiple firsts: he was the first basketball player (of any race) to win an NCAA title (in 1955 playing for the University of San Francisco) and an Olympic gold medal (at the 1956 Summer Olympics) in back-to-back seasons. In 1958 he became the first Black MVP in the history of the NBA; a few years later he was the first NBA playe...

Scandal and sports seem to go together, and the NBA hasn't been immune from this trend, as the league has been rocked by many NBA player controversies over its nearly 80 years of existence. As recently as 2024, the Toronto Raptors' Jontay Porter was banned from the NBA for life after it was discovered he was conspiring with gamblers for betting purposes. This banishment came 17 years after one of the biggest gambling-related scandals in basketball history - the discovery that referee Tim Donaghy...

In 1979, Rosie Ruiz, a 26-year-old administrative assistant in New York City, filled out an application to run in that year's New York City Marathon. On the application, she estimated her expected finishing time to be four hours and 10 minutes. But when the race was held, she had a recorded time of 2:56:29 - 11th best among the female entrants. At the time, no one connected to the race or in the media thought anything of her result. Her time was good enough to qualify her to compete in the Bost...

Roger Neilson is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame. He was a head coach for eight different NHL teams - the Toronto Maple Leafs, Buffalo Sabres, Vancouver Canucks, Los Angeles Kings, New York Rangers, Florida Panthers, Philadelphia Flyers, and Ottawa Senators in a career that spanned four decades (1977 to 2002). Although he never won a Stanley Cup, he was known as an innovator - he earned the nickname “Captain Video” because of his use of videotape to analyze other teams and was the first to u...

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