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- aguywithnobeer, on 11/12/2008, -1/+57Dugg for the japanese girl's face.
- username7410, on 11/12/2008, -2/+44Be a Lions fan...
- vegx, on 11/12/2008, -7/+42This list sure went downhill once you get to "shutting down Kobe Bryant"
- 0phatpat0, on 11/12/2008, -6/+37Buried for no 99+ average in test cricket.
Go the DON! - DankNugzPlz, on 11/12/2008, -3/+29Pretty good list, but "shutting down Kobe" shouldn't be on there.
- cupajoe60, on 11/12/2008, -0/+2515. Throw a no-hitter while on acid.
http://digg.com/baseball/Pitcher_was_on_LSD_while_ ... - jerrolds, on 11/12/2008, -3/+23Shutting down Kobe Bryant....Really?
- nahsrocketeer75, on 11/12/2008, -3/+20I think breaking Joe D's 56-game hitting streak would be more difficult than hitting .400, which isn't to say the latter wouldn't be monumental. Of course, the record for hitting in consecutive games *and* marrying Marilyn Monroe will *never* be broken.
- inactive, on 11/12/2008, -2/+19Putting everything on one page must be very difficult also
- kotrin, on 11/12/2008, -1/+17Tour de France?
- ileftfark, on 11/12/2008, -1/+15In 1936, little-known writer Edward Brissaut compiled a list in an article that spanned a *single* page. His feat has yet to been duplicated, and will not be for the foreseeable future.
- TheSarf, on 11/12/2008, -1/+14No Cal Ripken Jr?
- dtpollitt, on 11/12/2008, -2/+14here, ill truncate the list for you:
hit a MLB pitch - Wreckage, on 11/12/2008, -0/+12#9 Shutting down Kobe Bryant.....
Whoever put this list together must either be Kobe's biggest fan or got raped by him in a hotel room..... - ninjaturtles1, on 11/12/2008, -1/+13Buried for not having Lance Armstrong coming back from testicular cancer and winning 7 straight Tour De Frances!
- Poseur117, on 11/12/2008, -1/+11Carlos Zambrano had the last no hitter.
- phreak79, on 11/12/2008, -0/+9Exactly. Sports = anything played in America. Awful article. Could have included things like scoring 14 goals in a World Cup finals (Just Fontaine) too. Heck, winning 7 Tour de France's might rank up there too.
- jba68, on 11/12/2008, -1/+10buried for kobe bryant
- cubs2234, on 11/12/2008, -0/+9Really? A list of sports feats without mentioning Cal Ripken Jr.? Come on, SI, that's pathetic. Imagine doing anything 2,632 times, let alone play and START professional baseball.
I'm not knocking any of those other feats, they're respectful in their own rights, but jesus...
that being said, Peter Angelos has to go! - willrs, on 11/12/2008, -0/+9with one testicle
- inactive, on 11/12/2008, -0/+8Not be broke five years after you retire from a job where you make thirty million a year to play a game.
- Wreckage, on 11/12/2008, -0/+7Ted Williams is also a Veteran.
*Noting that it is Veterans Day. - AgentQ, on 11/12/2008, -0/+7That this doesn't include any tennis feats is ridiculous. A career grand-slam (winning the Wimbledon as well the Australian, French, and US Opens), let alone a calendar year grand slam (doing that in one year) is truly incredible.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis_Grand_Slam#Car ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis_Grand_Slam#Cal ... - hawk3210, on 11/12/2008, -1/+8Be a Cubs fan.
:) - Gizza, on 11/12/2008, -0/+7Most difficult things to do in "American" sports. The Don's average of 99.99 is more than double what most decent batsman average. And no one else even comes close to it (that have played a decent number of games).
Or how about scoring a double (or even triple) century in an innings. Or getting a Hat-trick. All those things are much more rare than anything on this list. - StriferDiem, on 11/12/2008, -0/+7No Bradman = Fail.
- eejbm, on 11/12/2008, -0/+6DAMN - I was going to say that!!
and 99.94 is nearly twice as good as some GREAT batsmen.
Weetbix did a promo a few years ago (probably 10) where they compared several of the best sportsmen in their chosen sport - Michael Jordan, some golfer, Dawn Fraser etc... The Don - would have scored double PER GAME of what Jordan did.
He is a freak - probably, not DEFINITELY the greatest, most dominant sportsman ever - and that will never change - unless someone comes along and averages 60 point per game across their whole career on the basketball court....
Our Don !!! we will still be talking about him in a 100 years (well, my children and their children will anyway!)
PS - buried for just being seppo ***** - Cheeze_Head, on 11/12/2008, -2/+8No love for Michael Phelps?
14 career Olympic gold medals, the most by any Olympian, must be not cool enough for SI. - ninjaturtles1, on 11/12/2008, -0/+6Or Jordan, Magic Johnson or Larry Bird!
- caseycoold, on 11/12/2008, -11/+171)Ted Williams is the last player to end a season with a batting average over .400. The Red Sox icon finished with an average of .406 in 1941, and also led the league in home runs (37), base on balls (147), runs (135), slugging average (.735), and on base percentage (.551).
2)By defeating the Eagles 24-21 in Super Bowl XXXIX, the Patriots became the first team since the Broncos (1998-99) to win consecutive Super Bowls.
3)Russia's Yelena Isinbayeva holds the world record for women in the pole vault, clearing 16-5 1/4 three years ago in Lausanne.
4)Only four players have pulled off a quadruple double, including Hall of Fame center Hakeem Olajuwon, who had 18 points, 16 rebounds, 10 assists and 11 blocks on March 29, 1990, against Milwaukee.
5)In 1930 Bobby Jones became the first and only golfer to win the Grand Slam, winning all of golf's four major championships. Tiger Woods achieved the career Grand Slam when he won the British Open at St. Andrews in 2000.
6)Johnny Unitas threw at least one touchdown pass in 47 straight games, an NFL record. Next on the list is a 36-game streak by Brett Favre, from 2002 to 2004.
7)There have been 256 no-hitters in modern baseball, the last being Red Sox pitcher Jon Lester. On June 11, 1938, Reds starter Johnny VanderMeer no-hit the Boston Bees, 3-0. Four nights later he followed up by no-hitting the Dodgers 6-0. VanderMeer remains the only pitcher in history to toss consecutive no-hitters.
8)Wayne Gretzky's single-season scoring record of 92 goals ('81-82) might be unassailable. Capitals left wing Alexander Ovechkin led all NHL players this season with 65 goals.
9) It's one of the toughest assignments in sports.
10) Retired (we think) Packer quarterback Brett Favre finished his career on a streak of 253 consecutive regular-season starts. If you include the playoffs, the number jumps to 275. Giants punter Jeff Feagles holds the all-time record, playing in an NFL-record 320 consecutive regular season.
11) Justin McBride is a two-time Professional Bull Riders World Champion (2005 and 2007) and the organization's all-time leading money and events winner.
12) Japanese figure skater Miki Ando is the only female skater to have landed a quadruple jump (a salchow) in competition. She first completed the jump at the 2002 ISU Junior Grand Prix Final in the Netherlands at age 15.
13) Steve Cauthen is the last jockey to win the Triple Crown, riding the great Affirmed to victories in the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes.
14) Alaska's 1,000-mile Yukon Quest and 1,150-mile Iditarod are only a little more than a month apart, so winning them back-to-back is more than demanding. It had never been done until last year, when Lance Mackey did it. Winning them back-to-back two years in a row? Mackey this year -- on feet frostbitten by the Quest's 40-below temperatures, yet. Matching his feat is going to take some doing.
#9: "It's one of the toughest assignments in sports."
wtf? - Gr00ver, on 11/12/2008, -0/+6Dugg for Hakeem Olajuwon.
- Julian88888888, on 11/12/2008, -0/+6Running a mile in under 00:03:50
A time that only several people in the entire world have ever done - FJRRulz, on 11/12/2008, -0/+5The article actually says retired Packers QB Brett Favre, so it is obviously an old article.
- doobiebrother, on 11/12/2008, -0/+5Paying child support?
- hawk0168, on 11/12/2008, -0/+5Wikipedia has a statistical comparison of Bradman next to other sports greats.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Bradman#World_ ... - phreak79, on 11/12/2008, -0/+4No mention of Usain Bolt or Michael Phelps either. Whoever wrote that article must have had their head up their arse at the time. And yet they include the pole vault world record as a difficult achievement, when she beats her own record a good few times a year. Terrible, simply terrible.
- therealrico, on 11/12/2008, -3/+7I know, NBA finals anyone? Celtics seemed to find a formula
- gaapgod, on 11/12/2008, -0/+4Stopping Kobe made the list over:
- Richard Petty's 200 NASCAR wins (unbreakable)
- Smokin' Joe's hit streak (possibly unbreakable)
- The Perfect Dolphins NFL season (Giants FTW)
- Myriad other things way tougher than catching Kobe on a cold night
Not buried, just not Dugg. - eejbm, on 11/12/2008, -0/+4Average 100 in cricket - noone has ever done it. Don Bradman is the only one close 99.94.
- martynda, on 11/12/2008, -0/+4Grand Slam in tennis? (winning all 4 slams consecutively)
- jgreene777, on 11/12/2008, -1/+5Marilyn Monroe was no challenge...
- aarku, on 11/12/2008, -2/+6"Shutting down Kobe Bryant"? Who dugg this crap. How about shutting down Wilt Chamberlain.
- lupka, on 11/12/2008, -0/+4That's a weird omission. Somehow a bull riding world championship is more difficult to accomplish than 2,632 consecutive games, even though there's a bull riding champion every year and Ripken's streak is 16+ years worth of games.
- aarku, on 11/12/2008, -0/+3Wilt Chamberlain.
- vulcanius, on 11/12/2008, -0/+3*****, I thought they meant passing the ball.
- slvrbullet87, on 11/12/2008, -1/+4She looks like she is smelling ***** in that pic
- bonjourmr, on 11/12/2008, -0/+3That's a terrible list.
- swejck, on 11/12/2008, -0/+3ah, a list for the most difficult things to do in American Sports
- limbride, on 11/12/2008, -0/+3What a *****. Buried.
- counterplex, on 11/12/2008, -0/+3Taking 20 wickets in a test match? According to Bearders (BBC), "No bowler has equalled [Jim] Laker's 19-wicket [1956] match return in either Test or first-class cricket but there have been instances of 20-wicket match hauls, all bowled, in minor cricket."
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