Page 10 - Sports Facts

A lone Tour de France rider rode clean and spoke out against doping, but was shunned by Lance Armstrong and the rest of the peloton!

Christophe Bassons was a professional road racing cyclist from Mazamet, France. His career ended when he spoke out against doping in the Tour de France, though. He began cycle-racing in mountain biking in 1991. Previously he had been a civil engineer. He started racing on the road in 1992 and won the Tour du Tarn et Garonne in 1995. He turned professional in 1996 for Force Sud and then switched to Festina when Force Sud failed. He was invited to the Tour de France and to write for a column for the 1999 Tour de France.

He wrote a little about the doping going on or his suspicions of it and got the whole peloton mad at him. Lance Armstrong was verbal with him and told him to quit and he wasn’t wanted there. Everyone turned on him. His teammates refused to share prizes with him. He quit cycling professionally after another year of cycling.

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Who are the smartest guys on the Football field? Hint: It's not Quarterbacks!

Most people assume that quarterbacks have to be the smartest guys on the football field. After all, they run the offenses, they have to keep track of plays, read defenses and make the right choices to score. However, evidence shows that they're NOT the smartest guys on the field.

The real answer? Offensive linemen. Yes, the big guys up front. It seems that all they have to do is mindlessly block for the QB or the running back, right? Wrong. Turns out that they have to be smarter than most of their teammates. Experts consider that they have the hardest job. They have to adjust to many different fronts, understand blitz concepts, recognize patterns and communicate with one another in extremely fast fashion. If you saw The Blind Side, you'll know that O-linemen tend to be the highest paid players, and with good reason.

There's real evidence to back this up, too. Before any player goes in for the NFL draft, they have to take a 12-minute 50-question test called the Wonderlick. Think of it as the SATs for Pro Football. On average, Offensive Linemen tend to score higher than everyone else!

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A murdered confessed on his deathbed… then he didn't die!

James Washington thought he was gonna get away with murder. He was already in prison, serving time for a different crime, when he suffered a heart attack. He called the guard on duty and said he had something to get off his conscience. He confessed to the murder of Joyce Goodener, whom he had killed in 1995.

The guard recalled his confession in court, while the man tried to take it back after he survived the heart attack. However, the man was found guilty of the murder and now faces a life sentence. It's a very unusual circumstance, but we're glad that justice was made!

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Bears fans drank virtually ALL the Beer in Nashville!

The Bears are having a spectacular year in the NFL. The OMG-Facts home team has a 7-1 record and are atop their division and are favorites to go deep into the playoffs. It's no surprise that when a team does well, the fans flock behind it. That's what happened in Early November when the Bears travelled to Nashville to play against the Tennessee Titans.

After the Titans fell 51-20, Bears fans took to bars to celebrate. Nashville didn't know what it had coming. A bar that was close to the stadium reported it was out of bottled beer by Sunday evening. Other bars just had a few bottles of left by the time Bears fans left.

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Ever wonder why the team isn't called the Toronto Maple LEAVES?

Any hockey fans in the house? Well just in case some of you aren’t, The Toronto Maple Leafs (yes Leafs, not Leaves ) is the name of a professional hockey team based in Toronto, Canada. Founded in 1917, the team is one of the original six league members. When the team was first established, it was christened the Toronto St.Patricks.

The franchise was sold in in 1929, and renamed the Toronto Maple Leaf Hockey Club (Toronto Maple Leafs for short), and given the team colors blue and white. The name was chosen to honor the Maple Leaf Regiment from World War 1. As the regiment is a proper noun, its plural is Maple Leafs (not Maple Leaves). Take that grammar Nazis.

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