Hubris In Sports

Indianapolis Colts Somehow Wind Up With Exact Same Coaching Staff
Most Clippers Fans Still Have No Idea Team Is Doing Well
Novak Djokovic Signs Endorsement Deal With Serbia's Top Brand Of Luxury Goats
Nation's Telephone Conversation Fans Thrilled By Long-Awaited Mayweather-Pacquiao Phone Call
Controversial GoDaddy.com Super Bowl Commercial To Feature Scantily Clad Woman Performing Late-Term Abortion
Brandon Marshall Proves What He’s Capable Of If Defenses Play At 50 Percent

Sportsgraphic

November 19, 2009

1886: Always needing to be first, Ty Cobb pushes aside the baby that was supposed to come of his mother's vagina
1919: Man o' War doesn't start running until 1:50 into the race
1920: Cleveland shortstop Ray Chapman leans over the plate as though he were begging to be beaned in the head and killed on the ball field
1997: Long thought of as an over-the-top disciplinarian, P.J. Carlesimo gets right in Latrell Sprewell's face and yells, "There is no way in the world that you would strangle me right now"
1997: Prior to Game 5 of the NBA Finals against the Utah Jazz, Michael Jordan injects the flu into his body
2003: With Game 7 of the ALCS tied in the 11th inning, Red Sox pitcher Tim Wakefield decides to finish off the unknown Aaron Boone with one of his signature floaters
2008: Rather than punting like he should, Lions coach Rod Marinelli repeatedly goes for it on first down
2009: Bill Simmons publishes 750-page book about basketball; the word "basketball" appears only 37 times in the text, whereas "Bill Simmons" appears 5,723 times