| | Just when you thought you knew everything about sports . . .
Sports fans are as competitive as the athletes they admire, always wanting to know more than the other guy. Now, ESPN: Did You Know? (Hyperion/ESPN Books: Nov. 25, 1998; $12.95; Trade Paperback) provides thousands of never before revealed facts as well as the inside edge on every top sports story ever aired on the popular daily SportsCenter segment "Did You Know?"
Edited by the sports and pop-culture commentator on "World News Now" (ABC), Shelly Youngblut, this informative, unusual, and often amusing guide poses many thought-provoking questions for the know-it-all sports buff.
For instance, did you know:
Which two ESPN on-air personalities pitched no-hitters in Little League?
Which future NBA superstar was cut from his high school basketball team as a sophomore?
Who was the first golfer to reach $1 million in earnings in a rookie season?
Which future Cy Young Award winner was drafted by the NHL's Los Angeles Kings?
Why does three-time NCAA women's basketball champion Chamique Holdsclaw wear no. 23?
Which team is the oldest existing franchise never to have won a championship?
Find out the answers to these questions and see if you're a true ESPN fan. Did You Know? is the ultimate trivia and fact book for the ultimate sports fan.
Points of Interest
SportsCenter celebrated its 10,000th telecast on December 2, 1988, and its 20,000th telecast on May 17, 1998.
In 1997, Chris Berman was named one of people's 40 Most Fascinating People, the only sports figure to make the list. That same year, Rich Eisen and ESPNEWS anchor Andre Aldridge were featured bachelors Cosmopolitan All About Men. Eisen described himself as turned on by "a baseball cap with a ponytail hanging out the back." Aldridge's ideal woman "looks good, has a sense of humor, is intelligent and isn't easily intimidated."
Johnny Unitas made nine touchdown passes and 10 interceptions in 12 games as a rookie with the Baltimore Colts in 1956.
The Bulls drafted current University of Minnesota coach Clem Haskins in the first round in 1967, third overall.
No U.S.-born player has ever won the Hart Trophy. In fact, only two non-Canadians have ever claimed the award: Russian Sergei Fedorov (1994) and Czech Dominik Hasek (1997, 1998).
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