Sports by Ray Sahelian, M.D.
Many people like to watch sports games on TV or in person since watching a sports game can distract a person from the long week of work they had. Watching sports on TV clears the head. We all need this once in a while if we have many things that have preoccupied us.
Sports injury
Slower processing speed and reaction time, as well as lower visual and verbal
memory performance, predispose a person to errors in coordination during
physical activity that can lead to a sports related injury.
Special Olymptics was started in 1968
AUTORACING, Nascar
Earnhardt , Dale
Indy 500 in Memorial day weekend
BASEBALL
Babe Ruth, 60th home run, 1927
DeMaggio, 1941, Yankee great
New York Yankees, 22 championships
Texas Rangers baseball team had a president for previous owner
BICYCLING
Armstrong, Lance, Tour de France
BOWLING. foul line is 60 feet from head pin
Turkey, 3 strikes in a row
Maximum weigh of ball is 16 pounds
BOXING, Marquess of Queensbury
LaMotta, jake, Raging Bull
CROQUET uses mallet
GOLF
Nickolson, won first major at 2004 Masters
Wee, Michele
FOOTBALL
Green Bay Packers
Houston Texans
Kansas City chiefs
Horseracing
sport
Rags to Riches wins the Belmont Stakes -- the first filly to win the race in
more than a century.
POLO uses mallet during chukkers
SWIMMING
Phelps, michael, broke 2 world records in one day
TENNIS
Federer, Roger,, won wimbleton in 2003 and 2004
Williams, Serena, Venus
TRACK
Bannister, roger, 4 minute mile
Triple jump, hop, step and jump
I came across
the sports trivia terms above watching the television game show Jeopardy.
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