Sports Facts

Buster Posey once played all nine positions during a baseball game. His team won!

Back in 2008, Buster Posey (former San Francisco Giants player), played for Florida State University. On May 12, during a game against Savannah State University, he hit a grand glam and played all nine fielding positions!

And not only that; His team won 10-0! His performance during that game was great; in fact while he was playing as a pitcher that day, he struck out both batters he faced!

2008 was in fact a great year for Posey; he hit .463 with 26 home runs and 3 RBI and won multiple awards such as the Johnny Bench Award, Collegiate Baseball Player of the Year award, Dick Howser Trophy and the Golden Spikes Award among many others!

When it comes to doing something you love there are no limitations to what you can do; always give your best, just like Buster Posey would.

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The Cincinnati Reds changed their name in the 50s so they wouldn't be called communists!

The Cold war was not an event that only affected political affairs throughout the United States; it also changed important aspects of it's sports!

People were scared of being accused of being communist, and by this being imprisoned and considered traitors. The fear propagated throughout the entire country, and this fear was able to reach the Cincinnati Reds!

From 1953 to 1958 the Cincinnati Reds officially changed their name to the “Cincinnati Redlegs” because they were afraid of being thought to be associated with communism! The club’s logo was altered to remove the term “REDS” from the inside of the “wishbone C” symbol.

And not only that; players were also asked to keep a clean cut look! Players were not meant to have long hair or facial hair since they didn’t want to be seemed as rebels or anything associated with it.

Now in 2013, “The big red machine” is amongst the greatest baseball teams in history ever! Hopefully they’ll still be making history with a lot more championships.

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Sprinting for 60 minutes a week burns as much fat as jogging for 7 hours a week!

Switching up your speed while exercising can help burn more fat--perhaps more drastically than we ever realized. According to a study of 40 overweight males who did speed training over 12 weeks, this training can cause a significant drop in body fat and an increase in muscle mass.

The scientists were trying to find the minimum amount of exercise you could do with the largest health factors. They had the men exercise three times a week, and these exercises included periods of sprinting. They lost an average of 2 kilograms of body fat. Other studies have shown that men would need to jog for five to seven hours a week for about 3 months to lose the same amount of fat.

The men worked out for three 20 minute sessions each week, and during each session were sprinting for about 8 minutes. The lost mostly visceral fat, which is linked to cardiovascular disease risk.

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The longest Tennis point ever played lasted for 29 minutes and 643 shots!

On September 24, 1984 Vicki Nelson and Jean Hepner, at the time ranked 93 and 172 in the world, engaged in what is still the longest point played in a professional tennis match.

This whopper of a point lasted for 29 minutes and 643 exchanged shots between the two of them. The match itself lasted for 6 hours and 31 minutes which was the longest match ever played for over 20 years. It still hold the record for being the longest match completed on the same day.

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Air Jordan's were originally banned from the NBA. Every game, Nike paid the fine for Jordan to wear them!

The Air Jordan 1 was first released in 1985, in a red and black colorway to match the uniform of the Chicago Bulls, the team for which Michael Jordan played. This red and black color-way was later outlawed by NBA Commissioner David Stern for not having any white on them.

Michael Jordan would wear the shoes anyway, and each time he stepped on the court with the Air Jordan 1 he would be fined five thousand dollars. Nike used this as a promotional tool in advertisements hinting that the shoes gave an unfair competitive advantage and that whoever wore them had a certain edginess associated with outlaw activities.

Nike would later create a colorway with green, white, and black which would be worn by Jordan for most of the 1985 and 1986 season. The Air Jordan I was originally released from 1985-1986. It was retroed in 1994, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013.

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