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Sports

Stories

Spectacular

NO

WAY

!

Monika Davies

Consultants

Timothy Rasinski, Ph.D.

Kent State University

Lori Oczkus, M.A.

Literacy Consultant

Publishing Credits

Rachelle Cracchiolo , M.S.Ed. , Publisher

Conni Medina , M.A.Ed. , Managing Editor

Dona Herweck Rice , Series Developer

Emily R. Smith , M.A.Ed. , Content Director

Stephanie Bernard/Susan Daddis , M.A.Ed. , Editors

Robin Erickson , Senior Graphic Designer

The TIME logo is a registered trademark of TIME Inc. Used under license.

Image Credits: Cover and p.1 Philip Oldham/Cal Sport Media/Newscom;

pp.6, 8, 1213 John Biever/Sports Illustrated/Getty Images; p.9 Ronald

C. Modra/Sports Imagery/Getty Images; pp.1415 LOC [LC-DIG-

ggbain-21542]; p.16 B Bennett/Getty Images; p.18 Aflo Co. Ltd./Alamy

Stock Photo; p.19 Photo by: Melinda Sue Gordon/Production Co.s: Scott

Rudin Productions/Michael De Luca Productions/Plan B Entertainment/

AF archive/Alamy Stock Photo; p.20 Springfield College, Babson Library,

Archives and Special Collections; p.23 (back) Copyright 2013 NBAE (Photo

by Ned Dishman/NBAE via Getty Images), (front) Copyright 2004 WNBAE

(Photo by D. Clarke Evans/NBAE via Getty Images); p.25 Copyright 2003

NBAE (Photo by Andrew D. Bernstein/NBAE/Getty Images); p.26 David E.

Klutho/Sports Illustrated/Getty Images; p.28 Dave Sandford/Getty Images;

p.29 Creative Commons File:Stanley Cup, 2015.jpg by Alex Goykhman

used under CC BY-SA 4.0; p.30 Dave Sandford/Getty Images; pp.3233

Popperfoto/Getty Images; pp.3435 Bob Thomas/Popperfoto/Getty

Images; pp.36, 38 Michael Regan/Getty Images; p.39 GLYN KIRK/AFP/Getty

Images; p.41 Razzle-dazzle/Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain; all other

images from iStock and/or Shutterstock.

All teams, companies, and/or products mentioned in this book are

registered trademarks of their respective owners or developers and

are used in this book strictly for editorial purposes. No commercial

claim to their use is made by the author or the publisher.

Note: The answers to the mathematics problems posed throughout

this book are provided on page 48.

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Table of Contents

The Weird, Wild, and Wonderful .......

The Biggest Comeback in NFL History .. 6

The Longest Undefeated Streaks

in Baseball ....................... 15

The Highest-Scoring

Basketball Game ..................

The First Outdoor NHL Game ........ 26

Historys Most Crowded

Soccer Stadium ................... 32

The Three-Day Tennis Match .........

A Celebration of Inspiration .......... 42

Glossary ........................... 44

Index .............................. 45

Check It Out! ...................... 46

Try It! ............................

About the Author ................... 48

The Weird , Wild,

and Wonderful

Imagine sitting in a seat in a packed stadium . Youre

surrounded by thousands of excited , screaming fans. You

start conversations with people around you , asking , Who

are you cheering for ? The game begins . Just as you think

your team is about to win , the opponents swoop in and take

the lead . You become completely captivated , and you get a

rush of adrenaline when the game gets too close to call .

The most entertaining part of watching a sport , be it

Its a Numbers Game!

Do you love sports and math ? If so , you should learn about

sports statisticians . Sports are all about numbers , and there

are people who keep statistics for everything . For example ,

in the 2015 regular season , professional basketball player

Stephen Curry made out of three-point baskets .

He shattered his own record of three-pointers from the

previous season . What was his shooting percentage from

beyond the three-point line ?

tennis , hockey , or football , is how unpredictable a game

can be . We can examine statistics and make guesses about

what will happen , but many of the nest moments in sports

come as surprises to spectators .

In honor of the sporting worlds unpredictability , we

will delve into some of the most exciting sports moments

in history . There will be number crunching and lots of

head scratching . You might even think we are making these

numbers up . ( Please feel free to doublecheck we promise

we are telling the truth !)

The Biggest Comeback

Warren Moon

in NFL History

You are halfway through one of the most important

football games of the season . A peek at the scoreboard

reveals that your team is down points . The chance of

your team winning seems impossibly slim .

While it can be tempting to give up when your team

is trailing so far behind , take heart and look back to the

most spectacular comeback in National Football League

( NFL ) history .

It Was a Chilly January Day

Football Factory

Over 700,000 footballs are made

yearly at the Wilson Football Factory

in Ada , Ohio , exclusively for the

NFL . If 2,800 footballs are made each

business day , how many days per year is

the factory open ?

Coming to You Live!

The rst time a football game scored its way

onto a television screen was in 1939 . The

viewing audience was fewer than 5,000 for

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