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Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Did you know who was call the Wizard of Westwood?

That would be the man that coached UCLA...


UCLA WON 11 national titles,
John Wooden, also known as the Wizard of Westwood, coached UCLA to 10 of its 11 titles.

Did you know that UCLA holds the record for the most NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championships?

The University of Kentucky is second, with 7 national titles,

while Indiana University and University of North Carolina are tied for third with 5 national titles.


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Did you know the school with the most NCAA appearances without reaching a final four?

The top five schools that never reached the Final Four are...

App. School
1) 25

BYU
2) 24 Missouri
3) 21 Xavier

4) 19
Alabama,
 



Utah State

5) 18 Boston College, Tennessee



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Did you know the school with the most Final Four appearances?

The top schools are...

App. School
18 North Carolina, UCLA*
15 Duke
13 Kansas, Kentucky
10 Ohio State*
8 Indiana, Louisville, Michigan State

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Did You Know What players won championships on all levels?

Only 2 players have ever achieved such a fate and they would be.
Quinn Buckner
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NCAA: 1976 (Indiana)
Olympics: 1976
NBA: 1984 (Boston)
- also won a high school state championship












Earvin "Magic" Johnson
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NCAA: 1979 (Michigan State)
Olympics: 1992
NBA: 1980, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1988 (L.A. Lakers)
- also won a high school state championship













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Did You Know these African-American First in Literature?



Novelist: Harriet Wilson, Our Nig (1859)..

















Poet: Lucy Terry, 1746, "Bar's Fight." It is her only surviving poem.











Poet (published):
Phillis Wheatley, 1773, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. Considered the founder of African-American literature.













Pulitzer Prize winner: Gwendolyn Brooks, 1950, won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry.





















Pulitzer Prize winner in Drama: Charles Gordone, 1970, for his play No Place To Be Somebody.












Nobel Prize for Literature winner:
Toni Morrison, 1993.





















Poet Laureate: Robert Hayden, 1976–1978;



The first black woman Poet Laureate:
Rita Dove, 1993–1995.























Did you know what a Poet Laureate is?

a poet who is unofficially regarded as holding an honorary position in a particular group or region; "she is the poet laureate of all lyricists ...
the poet officially appointed to the royal household in Great Britain; "the poet laureate is expected to provide poems for great national occasions"
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Did You Know the Greatest Multi-Sport Athlete of All Time?

The top ten list begins with::


10.
Hakeem "The Dream" Olajuwon

Olajuwon was reputed to have been a top goalkeeping prospect in Nigeria before taking up basketball. He took up basketball at the age of 15 and played college basketball at the University of Houston. He was the first overall pick in the 1984 NBA draft by the Houston Rockets, where he gained his credibility as one of the greatest shot blockers, stealers, and defensive players ever known.

9. Carl Crawford

Crawford attended Jefferson Davis High School in Houston, Texas and was a letterman in football, basketball, and baseball. In baseball, he batted over .500 as a senior.Crawford was offered scholarships to play basketball as a point guard at UCLA or to play football as an option quarterback at Nebraska, USC, Oklahoma, Florida, and Tulsa.

He had originally signed a letter of intent to play football for Nebraska, but he turned down both offers in favor of a baseball career. Also is the cousin of New York Knicks PG Jamal Crawford.


8.
John Elway

Considered to be one of the greatest QBs in football history and a Hall of Famer, Elway was also a very good baseball player. I won't go into his NFL career, as he owns numerous records and won two Super Bowls.

His baseball career includes being drafted by the Royals out of high school. At Stanford he hit .361 with nine home runs and 50 RBIs in 49 games as a sophomore. After that he was the first pick of the Yankees in 1981. He hit .314 with a club-high 24 homers with the Yankees' single-A farm club.

7. Dave Winfield

With his 6'6" and 220 pound muscular body frame, Dave was a Hall of Fame slugger in baseball, but check this out: He was drafted by four professional teams in three different sports. After college (Minnesota), where he played baseball and basketball, he was drafted by the NBA's Atlanta Hawks, the ABA's Utah Stars, the NFL's Vikings, and the San Diego Padres in baseball.


6.
Jackie Robinson

Robinson was great in football and track in college, but ultimately made his name in baseball as a Hall of Fame player and the one who broke the color barrier in MLB. At UCLA, he became the first athlete in UCLA history to letter in four different sports in one year. Until 1947 he was presumed to be the only person ever selected to play in the college All Star games in both basketball and football.

5. Babe Didrikson

She was the greatest female athlete of all time. She was a great golfer (won 41 LPGA events and 11 majors) and an All-American basketball player, and she won two track and field gold medals in the 1932 Olympics.

4. Jim Brown

Brown is the greatest football player of all time, regardless of position. He is also a Hall of Fame Lacrosse player; some consider him the greatest lacrosse player of all time. In fact, he got his scholarship to Syracuse as a lacrosse player and walked onto the football team.

He led Syracuse's lacrosse team to an undefeated season in 1957, leading the country in scoring. As a football player? In only nine years he became the all-time leading rushing leader in the NFL, and currently sits third on that list.

3. Deion Sanders

Nicknamed "Prime Time" and "Neon Deion," Sanders played nine years in baseball, and will probably be a Hall of Fame football player when he becomes eligible. While he was a great football player—an eight-time Pro Bowl player who won two Super Bowls—he was also an above-average baseball player, and probably would have been better had he played the sport full-time.

Sanders is the only man ever to play in both the Super Bowl and the World Series, and he is the only man ever to hit a home run and score a touchdown in the same week.

2. Bo Jackson

He was drafted first overall in football but choose to play baseball first. He eventually came back to football before a hip injury ended his career. An All Star in baseball, he was the All Star game's MVP in 1989.

In football, he was on his way to a great career before he got hurt. What's remarkable is that he was the comeback player of the year in MLB after his injury. In terms of actual results, he probably shouldn't be ranked so high, but at his peak, he was an electric athlete who was the most popular athlete in the country at one point. Who knows what he could have accomplished had he stayed healthy.


1. Jim Thorpe

Thorpe is, hands down, the greatest multi-sport athlete of all time. He is considered one of the most versatile athletes in modern sports. He won Olympic gold medals in the pentathlon and decathlon, starred in college and professional football, played Major League Baseball, had a career in basketball, and was the NFL's first ever president which now is called commissioner . What more could you ask of someone? No one will ever surpass him.


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Did You Know Who was the only Player to Play in a Super Bowl and World Series?

Did you know that Deion *Prime Time* Sanders is the man?







- spent nine years in Major League Baseball; the only person to play in both a Super Bowl and a World Series.[4]
















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Did you know what quarterback has broken records and set more milestones?

That would be...

Brett Favre

As of the end of the 2009 NFL season, Favre owned or shared most of the well-known NFL career records, including:






  • Consecutive starts as a quarterback: 285 (309 including playoffs)[7][104]
  • Consecutive starts as a position player: 285 [105]
  • Career regular-season victories by a starting quarterback: 181 (Regular-season record: 181–104)[7]
  • Wins by a starting quarterback in one stadium: 90, Lambeau Field (including once as a Minnesota Viking)
  • Consecutive wins, regular season and playoffs, by a starting quarterback in one stadium: 29, Lambeau Field, 1995–1998
  • Consecutive wins, regular season, by a starting quarterback in one stadium: 25, Lambeau Field, 1995–1998
  • Wins by a starting quarterback against a single opponent: 27, Detroit Lions (18–0 in home games)
  • Complettions, Attempts, Passing Yards, Touchdown Passes against a single opponent: Detroit Lions: 790 completions, 11,247 attempts, 9,219 passing yards, 60 touchdown passes
  • Career passing touchdowns: 497[106][107]
  • Career passing yards: 69,329[106]
  • Career pass completions: 6,083[7][108]
  • Career pass attempts: 9,811[6][7][109]
  • Career interceptions thrown: 317[106][110]
  • Career games with at least one touchdown pass: 241
  • Career games with at least two touchdown passes: 157
  • Career games with at least three touchdown passes: 71[53]
  • Career games with at least four touchdown passes: 23[111]
  • Career games with at least one rushing attempt: 231
  • Career games with at least 200 passing yards: 202
  • Career games with at least 225 passing yards: 165
  • Career games with at least 250 passing yards: 139
  • Career games with at least 275 passing yards: 100
  • Career games with at least 300 passing yards: 61 (Dan Marino is 1st with 63)
  • Touchdown passes of 80+ yards: 9
  • Touchdown passes of 70+ yards: 15
  • Touchdown passes of 20+ yards: 165
  • 1 yard touchdown passes: 37
  • 1 yard touchdown passes, passer/receiver combination: 8, Brett Favre/Bubba Franks
  • Career games with at least 30 completions: 24 (Peyton Manning is 2nd with 18)
  • Career games with at least 20 completions: 185 (Peyton Manning is 2nd with 138)
  • Completions in a game played on a Friday: 30; 12/24/2004
  • Seasons with at least 30 touchdown passes: 9
  • Consecutive seasons with at least 30 touchdown passes: 5
  • Seasons with at least 3,000 passing yards: 18
  • Consecutive seasons with at least 3,000 passing yards: 18
  • Seasons with at least 300 completions: 18
  • Consecutive seasons with at least 300 completions: 18
  • Brett Favre & Sterling Sharpe tied Dan Marino & Mark Clayton's record for most passer/receiver touchdown combinations in a season in 1994: 18-broken by Tom Brady and Randy Moss(23) in 2007.
  • Most consecutive AP NFL MVP awards: 3 (1995–1997)[112]
  • Career playoff pass completions: 481[113]
  • Career playoff pass attempts: 791[113]
  • Career playoff passing yards: 5,855[113]
  • (2nd) Career playoff passing touchdowns: 44[113] (Montana, 45)[114]
  • Career playoff interceptions thrown: 30
  • Career playoff losses as starting QB: 11
  • (5th) Career playoff wins as starting QB: 13 (Joe Montana, 16; Tom Brady, 14; Terry Bradshaw, 14; John Elway, 14)
  • Games played by a starting quarterback against one opponent in a calendar year: 5 games against the Detroit Lions in 1994; 1/2/94(game 16 of the 1993 season), 1/8/94(playoff game), 11/6/94, 12/4/94, 12/31/94(playoff game)
  • Longest gap between receptions: 17 years & 4 weeks (275 games)
Favre is the only quarterback to have led a team to victory over all thirty-two teams in the league since the NFL first expanded to 32 franchises in 2002.[52][115]
Favre is one of four quarterbacks to lead the league in touchdown passes four times. The others are Johnny Unitas, Len Dawson and Steve Young.[116] In addition, Favre owns a number of team records, having printed his name into almost every passing category in the annals of Green Bay Packers history. Most recently, he set the team record for consecutive completions with 20 on November 22, 2007, against the Detroit Lions.[117]
Favre is also the first known player to be a grandfather while active in the NFL.

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What players has won 3 MVP in the NFL?

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Did you know that Favre is  the only quarterback to have led a team to victory over all thirty-two teams in the NFL?


Did you know who threw the most interceptions?

Did you know the top 10 most winning starting quarterbacks?

Did you know what quarterback has the most consecutive starts

Did you know what NFL starting quarterback has the best playoff record?




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Did you know what players won a NCAA Championships, a Olypmic Gold Medals and a NBA championship?

Did you know what players won those championships?


Clyde Lovelette

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NCAA: 1952 (Kansas)
Olympics: 1952
NBA: 1954 (Minneapolis), 1963, 1964 (Boston)
















K.C. Jones


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NCAA: 1956 (San Francisco)
Olympics: 1956
NBA: 1957, 1959-1966 (Boston)








Bill Russell

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NCAA: 1956 (San Francisco)
Olympics: 1956
NBA: 1957, 1959-1966, 1968, 1969 (Boston)















Jerry Lucas

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NCAA: 1960 (Ohio State)
Olympics: 1960
NBA: 1973 (New York)
- also won a high school state championship













Quinn Buckner

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NCAA: 1976 (Indiana)
Olympics: 1976
NBA: 1984 (Boston)
- also won a high school state championship






Earvin "Magic" Johnson

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NCAA: 1979 (Michigan State)
Olympics: 1992
NBA: 1980, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1988 (L.A. Lakers)
- also won a high school state championship













Michael Jordan


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NCAA: 1982 (North Carolina)
Olympics: 1984, 1992
NBA: 1991, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 1998 (Chicago)














Did you know this NCAA College Basketball Trivia?

Did you know what women team won 3 consecutive NCAA titles?

http://betyudidntknow.blogspot.com/2010/10/did-you-know-what-ncaa-college.html

Did you know NCAA Teams went undefeated? 

Did you know the only NCAA College Basketball team to have  4 Undefeated Seasons?

Did you know who has won more NCAA college championships in women college ball?

Did you know what NCAA college basketball teams won men and women championships in the same year?

Did you know who is the winning est coach in NCAA college basketball history?

Did you know what teams made NCAA College basketball history in 2008?

Did you know what players won gold medal,  NCAA college basketball championship,  and NBA Championship? 

Did you know what players won high school championships, NCAA, Olypmic Gold Medals and a NBA  championship?

Did you know the Women  Huskies are the only woman's basketball program to have had every game in a season televised?

Did you know what team won more NCAA college championships in women college ball?

Did you know what NCAA college basketball teams have won men and women championships in the same year? 

Did you know who is the winning est coach in NCAA college basketball history?





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Did you know that Michael Jordan won these awards?

Michael Jordan won these awards?

NBA Cha
mpion (1991, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 1998)

Did you know what NBA player won the most MVP Awards?

That would be...
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has the most MVP awards with 6, followed by





















Did you know that Michael Jordan and Bill Russell each won 5 MVP Awards.







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Did you Know

Did you know that the average human brain contains approximately 86 billion neurons? These remarkable cells form intricate networks, allowing us to think, feel, and experience the world around us. Each neuron communicates with others through electrical impulses, creating a symphony of thoughts, memories, and emotions. So next time you ponder life’s mysteries, remember that your brain is orchestrating a cosmic dance of neurons!