Odds, Ends, and Interesting Numbers About March Madness
March 29, 2021
The NCAA basketball tournaments are all about the numbers — Sweet 16s, Elite 8s, Final Fours, “One Shining Moment” and more. Here are some facts and figures regarding March Madness, past and present. UNLIKELY FINAL FOUR TEAMS
Lowest seed...
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Sing, Captain America, Sing!
March 5, 2021
Each year, Uncle John and his team of devoted trivia hunters track down fascinating facts, little known stories, and forgotten pop culture to fill several hundred pages of reading material. Why? To compile the annual Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader...
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One-Sport Athletes Who Tried to be Two-Sport Athletes
March 4, 2021
Sure, Bo Jackson and Deion Sanders both played pro baseball and pro football, and simultaneously at that. But several other professional jocks who had what it took to make it one big league couldn’t quite cut it in another.
Michael Jordan, ...
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7 Things You Didn’t Know About Muhammad Ali
December 11, 2020
You know him for his boxing prowess and remarkable way with words, but how much do you really know about Muhammad Ali? Read on to find out more about "The Greatest." By age 18, Clay had won two Amateur Athletic Union national titles, two Golde...
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Star Wars…From an Alternate Universe
October 27, 2020
George Lucas’s Star Wars saga spans nine main movies, spinoffs like Rogue One and Solo, and The Mandalorian. That’s a lot of Star Wars, and it doesn’t even count all these other Star Wars projects that almost got made…but didn’t. ...
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