Tag: Sports
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Professional Sports Records: The Great, Lamentable, Weird, and Irrelevant BY THE NUMBERS
Congratulations to LeBron James for reaching and surpassing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s all-time regular-season scoring record, previously 38,387 points. Despite this shout-out, my apologies in advance if you are either an NBA or NASCAR fan, as I didn’t include either sport in the following. It was enough already. NFL19355Career rushing yards: Emmitt Smith (1990-2004)23 (200)Penalties (and penalty…
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Rider Wordsmithing
Indulge one more Olympic-inspired post, please. I’ll move on next week to other goodies in my queue. The only snowboard trick I ever executed was an air-and-fakie, without the air, so obviously I am impressed by recent riding performances in the 2022 Games. Yet I want to offer a shout-out to the skateboard and snowboard…