Today's featured game is a April 10, 1979 MLB game between the Montreal Expos and the New York Mets; http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYN/NYN197904100.shtml.


Here is a 1979 MLB season summery; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_MLB_season.


Some stats
World series champions: Pittsburgh Pirates
Runner-up: Baltimore Orioles
Best record: Baltimore Orioles 102-57
Worst record: Toronto Blue Jays 53-109.

Today's featured sports season is the 1971-72 NHL Season; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971-72_nhl_season.


Here are some stats:
Best record: Boston Bruins 54-13-11
Worst Record: Vancouver Canucks 20-50-8
Most goals scored: Boston Bruins 330 (4.2 per game)
Fewest goals allowed: Chicago Black Hawks 166 (2.1 per game)
Champions: Boston Bruins
Runner-Up: New York Rangers


Today's featured game is a Nov. 13th 1971 NHL Game between the Montreal Canadiens and the Minnesota North Stars;

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Today's featured racing season is the 1971 NHRA season; http://nhra.net/50th/years.html?year=1971.


I have been looking for complete stats of NHRA races for years now. I can find stats for NASCAR, IndyCar, Formula 1, and even Sports car. However for some reason NHRA drag racing is hard to come by. Does any body out their have more information like race schedules from 1986-1994, complete race results from 1986-1996, and final points standings from 1986-1999?

Today's featured sporting event is a July 15th MLB game between the San Francisco Giants and the New York Mets; http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYN/NYN199107150.shtml. The 1991 MLB season was the year That the Minnesota Twins beat the Atlanta Braves in the World Series 4 games to 3. It was to this date the last time the Twins won the World Series. It was also the first of 5 times all in the 1990s that the Braves made it to the World Series since the Franchise moved to Atlanta.


Here are some stats for the 1991 season
best record: Pittsburgh Pirates 98-64
worst record: Cleveland Indians 57-105
most runs scored: Texas Rangers 829 (5.1 per game)
most base hits: Minnesota Twins 1557 (9.6 per game)
most doubles: Boston Red Sox 305 (1.8 per game)
most triples: Milwaukee Brewers and St. Louis Cardinals: 53 (0.3 per game)
most home runs: Detroit Tigers 209 (1.2 per game)
fewest strikeouts: Minnesota Twins 747 (4.6 per game)
Player with the most home runs: Jose Canseco (Oakland Athletics) and Cecil Fielder (Detroit Tigers) 44
Player with the most RBI's: Cecil Fielder (Detroit Tigers) 133
Player who threw the most strikeouts: David Cone (New York Mets) and Roger Clemens (Boston Red Sox) 241. Here is the complete season summery; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_MLB_season.

Today's featured race is the July 21st 1991 Motogp French Grand Prix; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_French_motorcycle_Grand_Prix. Here is the 1991 season summery; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Grand_Prix_motorcycle_racing_season.

Today's featured sporting event is a September 24th 1978 NFL Game between the Atlanta Falcons and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers; http://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/197809240tam.htm. The 1978-79 NFL Season was the second time in 4 years that the Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Dallas Cowboys in the Super Bowl, the score was 35-31. The 31 points scored by the Dallas Cowboys is a record for most points scored by the losing team in the Super Bowl. It was later duplicated by the San Francisco 49ers in the 2013 Super Bowl.


Here are some stats for the 1978-79 Season
Best Record: Pittsburgh Steelers 14-2
Worst Record: San Francisco 49ers 2-14
Most points scored: Dallas Cowboys 384 (24 points per game)
Fewest Points allowed: Pittsburgh Steelers 195 (12 points per game)
Most Passing yards: San Diego Chargers 3375 (211 per game)
Most Rushing yards: New England Patriots 3165 (198 per game)
Fewest Turnovers: Miami Dolphins 30 (1.8 per game)
Here's the complete season summery; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_NFL_season.

Today's featured sporting event is a Aug. 4th 2005 MLB game between the Houston Astros and the Arizona Diamondbacks; http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/ARI/ARI200508040.shtml.


2005 was the year that the Montreal Expos moved to Washington D.C., and became the Nationals. 2005 was also the year that the Anaheim Angels changed their name to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. The Chicago White Sox won their first World Series in 88 years by sweeping the Houston Astros 4 games to 0. This is the only World Series appearance in franchise history for the Houston Astros.


Here are some stats for the 2005 MLB Season:
Best record; St. Louis Cardinals 100-62
Worst record; Kansas City Royals 56-106
Most runs scored; Boston Red Sox 910 (5.6 per game)
Most base hits; Boston Red Sox 1579 (9.7 per game)
Most doubles; Boston Red Sox 339 (2 per game)
Most triples; Detroit Tigers 45 (0.2 per game)
Most home runs; Texas Rangers 260 (1.6 per game)
Fewest strikeouts; Oakland Athletics 819 (5 per game)
Player with the most home runs; Andruw Jones of the Atlanta Braves with 51
Player with the most RBI's; David Ortiz of the Boston Red Sox with 148.
Player who threw the most strikeouts; Johan Santana of the Minnesota Twins with 238. Here is the season summary; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_mlb_season.

Today's featured race is a July 31st 2005 Formula 1 race at the Hungaroring; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Hungarian_Grand_Prix. The 2005 Formula 1 season was the year that Tire changes were not allowed during the race. The lack of tire changes was probably the reason why the 14 cars out of 20 with Michelin tires did not run the US Grand Prix at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. They didn't feel they had a tire that could go the distance at IMS. The 2005 season was significant in that Fernando Alonso won his first of two straight championships for the Renault team. Here is the complete season summary; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Formula_One_season.

Today's featured race is the 2001 The X-Factor Grand Prix of Sonoma for the American Le Mans series. http://race-database.com/results/results.php?year=2001&race=5&series_id=7. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_American_Le_Mans_Series_season.

Today's featured sporting event is a July 24th 2001 MLB game between the Minnesota Twins and the Oakland Athletics; http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/OAK/OAK200107240.shtml. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_MLB_season. 2001 was the year that the Arizona Diamondbacks dethroned the three time defending champs New York Yankees in seven games. 2001 is significant in that this is the last time that the world series ended with the championship team winning game 7 walk-off style. This was also the year that the Seattle Mariners had the greatest win percentage in the history of Major League Baseball. Some stats for the season.


Most base hits; Colorado Rockies 1663
Most Doubles; Oakland Athletics 334
Most Triples; Colorado Rockies 61
Most Home Runs; Texas Rangers 246
Fewest Strikeouts; Kansas City Royals 898
Most Runs Scored; Seattle Mariners 927 (5.72 per game)
Best record; Seattle Mariners 116-46
Worst record; Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Pittsburgh Pirates 62-100.

Today's featured sports season; 1950 MLB. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950_MLB_season

Today's featured sports season is the 1972-1973 NHL and WHA seasons; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972-73_NHL_season, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972-73_WHA_Season.

Today's featured game is a Feb. 12th 2003 game between the Washington Wizards and the Los Angeles Clippers. http://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/200302120LAC.html. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002-03_NBA_season. 2003 was the year that the San Antonio Spurs dethroned the Los Angeles Lakers as NBA Champs, the Lakers had won 3 consecutive championships prior to the 2002-2003 season. Here are some stats


Most points per game: Dallas Mavericks 103
Most Rebounds per game: Golden State Warriors 47
Most Assists per game: Utah Jazz 26
Fewest Turnovers per game: Dallas Mavericks 12
Fewest Points allowed per game: Detroit Pistons 88
Most Points scored in a game: Dallas Mavericks on May 10th scored 141 points in Double Overtime. The Most points scored in a regulation game was 140 by the Indiana Pacers on March 28th.
Best regular season Record: San Antonio Spurs and Dallas Mavericks at 60-22
Worst Record: Cleveland Cavaliers and Denver Nuggets at 17-65.

2003 was the last year of the NASCAR Winston Cup series. Meaning it was the last year of Winston being the Title sponsor before NEXTAL took over. With the change of title sponsor came a few other changes that I still don't like to this day. First of all 2003 was the last year of the Southern 500 at Darlington speedway on Labor day weekend. It was the longest race tradition at the time. The other big change was 2003 was the last year that they did not have a "Chase for the Cup" which is NASCAR's version of the playoffs to help determine the league's champion at the end of the year. In 2003 and every year prior to that, they ran a certain number of races throughout the year, which in this case it was 36 races, they would add up all of the points accumulated after 36 races, and the champion would be whoever had the most points at the end of the year. In my opinion that is most fair way to determine a championship in the sport of racing. The NFL, NBA, etc. is different in that every team in those leagues has it's own special schedule where it is difficult to tell who truly is the best team. However in racing all the teams are competing on the same track at the same time, because of that I don't think there is a need to have "playoffs" to determine the champion at the end of the year, like in the other "Stick and ball" sports. The 2003 NASCAR Cup champion was Matt Kenseth, it was his first and so far only championship in the cup level. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_NASCAR_Winston_Cup_Series

Today's featured race is the 2003 Daytona 500. http://racing-reference.info/race/2003_Daytona_500/W. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Daytona_500. This race only went 109 out of 200 laps because of rain. Michael Waltrip got his second Daytona 500 win in 3 years. Kurt Busch got his first of three second place Daytona 500 finishes in 2003. This race is also remembered for Ryan Newman's Crash in the tri-oval, where he barrel rolled a few times and the real axle flew out from under the car.

Today's featured Motorsports event is the 3/31/2007 Acura Sports Car Challenge of St. Petersburg, for the ALMS series. This was the first of three races for the American Le Mans series at the Streets of St. Petersburg. This was Ryan Briscoe's first ever class victory. This race was timed at 2 hours 45 minutes. The champion Audi Sport North America cars were one two that day with Allan McNish and Rinaldo Capello first; with the second place car driven by Marco Werner and Emanuele Pirro.

Today's featured sporting event is a 3/30/2007 NBA game between the Utah Jazz and the San Antonio Spurs. Here is the box score for this game; http://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/200703300SAS.html. The 2006-07 NBA season ended with the San Antonio Spurs Sweeping the Cleveland Cavaliers 4 games to 0, to win what is to this point their most recent NBA Championship. This is the last time the NBA Finals ended in a 4 game sweep. This is the only time the Cleveland Cavaliers made it to the NBA Finals. Some stats for the 2006-07 NBA season;
Best record: Dallas Mavericks 67-15 (They lost in the first round of the playoffs to the 42-40 Golden State Warriors in 6 games)
Worst record: Memphis Grizzlies 22-60
Most points per game: Phoenix Suns 110
Fewest points per game: Atlanta Hawks 94
Fewest points allowed per game: San Antonio Spurs 90
Most points allowed per game: Golden State Warriors 107
Most points scored in a game: Phoenix Suns (161) on Dec. 7th
Fewest Points scored in a game: Charlotte Bobcats (62) on the next day; Dec. 8th.

Today's featured race is the 2000 Silverstone 500 USA Challenge for the "American Le Mans Series." This is the only time the ALMS ran a race at the Silverstone Circuit in England. This was also the last time that the Schnitzer Motorsports BMW Team won overall in the ALMS Series. They won the race with drivers J.J. Lehto and Jorg Muller. This race was 2 hours 55 minutes. Here are the complete race results; http://race-database.com/results/results.php?year=2000&race=3&series_id=7

Today's featured sporting event is a May 13th 2000 MLB game between the Minnesota Twins and the Chicago White Sox. Here is the box score http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHA/CHA200005130.shtml
The 2000 MLB Season was the year of the "Subway World Series," as the New York Yankees beat the New York Mets 4 games to 1. The San Francisco Giants had the best regular season record (97-65), and they had the best run Differential at 1.1. The Philadelphia Phillies and the Chicago Cubs tied for the worst record, (65-97). The Montreal Expos had the worst run differential at -1.

Today's featured race is the 2008 Daytona 500. This race marked the first time that the Gen 5 car, better know as the Car of Tomorrow was used for the "Great American Race." This race was 3:16 with 7 cautions for a total of 23 laps run under yellow. Kyle Busch dominated the race leading 86 of the 200 laps. However it was Ryan Newman followed by Kyle's older brother Kurt Busch leading a Penske 1-2 to the win, passing Tony Stewart on the last lap. This is the only time that Car Owner Roger Penske has won the Daytona 500 to date. Here is the full box score; http://racing-reference.info/race?s=9&series=W&id=2008-01.

Today's featured sporting event is an NBA game played between the Portland Trail Blazers, and the Seattle SuperSonics. The game was played Feb. 22nd of 2008. Here is the box score; http://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/200802220SEA.html.

Today featured Motorsports event is the 2004 Rolex 24 at Daytona. This was the first the Daytona Prototype class won overall in the 24 hours of Daytona. It was also the last time the Bell motorsports team won in the Grans-Am series. This was also the race where the Howard Bell motorsports team of; Andy Wallace, Tony Stewart and Dale Earnhardt Jr. dominated leading 345 of the 526 laps completed, the suspension broke on the car with just 18 minutes to go. the following is the complete race results; http://racing-reference.info/race/2004_Rolex_24_at_Daytona/GA

Today's featured sporting event is a game between the Boston Celtics and the Orlando Magic from Nov. 26, 2003, http://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/200311260ORL.html