According to tracked data from newspaper archives, Wilt Chamberlain recorded the following: 1969: 90 blocks (only 10/18 games tracked) 1973: 89 blocks (only 13/17 games tracked) 1970: 82 blocks (only 11/18 games tracked)

Wilt Chamberlain in the locker room after Game 6 of the 1970 NBA Finals, where his historic 45 points and 27 rebounds kept the Lakers alive to force Game 7 against the Knicks.

"In my opinion, the greatest game ever pitched was between the San Francisco Giants and Milwaukee Braves on July 2, 1963. Forty-two-year-old Warren Spahn and 25-year-old Juan Marichal each went 16 innings and the game ended 1-0 on a home run by Willie Mays. Each pitcher threw over 200 pitches. Spahn threw 201. Marichal threw 227. There were seven future Hall of Fame players in that game, including Spahn and Marichal. We will never see that again because the game won’t allow it. But both guys were prepared to go as long as it took. And this game was not a fluke, both pitchers won 20 games that season. For Spahn, it was his 13th 20-win season and for Marichal, it was his first of 6. My highest pitch count was 232 in a game against the Red Sox in 1974. I pitched 12 innings, struck out 19, walked 10, and had a no decision. My counter-part, Luis Tiant threw 180 pitches in 14 1/3 innings and took the loss 4-3. We were on a 4-man rotation and pitched on 3 day’s rest. I had 26 complete games in 1973 and 1974 and didn’t even lead the league. Gaylord Perry had 29 in 1973 and Ferguson Jenkins had 29 in 1974." Nolan Ryan. Art by Graig Kreindler.

Look at that plumber who people say wouldn’t dominate today blocking Kareem. Well the current unanimous DPOY Award winner wouldn’t have sniffed the award if he was in the league today. He wasn’t generational. He was once in a lifetime. And that is a basketball truth.

The only people who could mitigate tensions between Fred G. Sanford and Aunt Esther were Ray Charles and Orson Welles.

82 years ago today, eight American sailors jumped onto a sinking Nazi submarine in the middle of the Atlantic. What they pulled out of it changed the war. And the Navy buried the whole story for years. First, you need to know that U-505 was already cursed. German sailors called her the unluckiest boat in the fleet. In October 1943, during a brutal British depth-charge attack, her own captain shot himself in the head in the control room, in front of his crew. He remains the only submarine commander in history known to have killed himself underwater in combat. His second-in-command calmly took over, rode out the attack, and sailed her home. Eight months later, her luck ran out completely. June 4, 1944. Two days before D-Day. Captain Daniel Gallery's hunter-killer group, built around the escort carrier USS Guadalcanal, had been stalking U-boats off West Africa. Gallery had an idea his superiors considered borderline insane: don't sink the next one. Capture it. No US Navy crew had boarded and taken an enemy warship on the high seas since 1815. The destroyer escort USS Chatelain caught U-505 on sonar and fired a salvo of hedgehog bombs. The U-boat broke the surface 700 yards away. Gunfire raked the conning tower, wounding her captain. He gave the order to abandon ship. The Germans rushed out so fast they botched the scuttling. The sub was flooding, but her engines were still running. She was circling the battle at six knots, empty, sinking, and very possibly rigged with demolition charges. So Lt. Albert David and eight men from USS Pillsbury chased her down in a whaleboat, leaped aboard, and climbed down the hatch into a dark, flooding submarine that could explode or go under at any second. They shut the scuttling valves, disarmed the charges, and stopped the flooding. Down there they found the prize: Enigma cipher machines and roughly 900 pounds of codebooks and charts. Current settings. The keys to the German navy's secret communications. But here's the catch. The treasure was only valuable if Germany never found out. One leak and Berlin changes every code overnight. So the Navy ran one of the great cover-ups of the war. The sub was towed 1,700 miles to Bermuda and given a fake American name: USS Nemo. Around 3,000 sailors were sworn to total silence. The 58 captured German crewmen vanished into a POW camp in rural Louisiana, hidden even from the Red Cross. Germany declared U-505 lost with all hands and notified the families. The dead men were alive in Louisiana, and their boat was working for the US Navy. The secret held until the war ended. Lt. David received the Medal of Honor, the only one awarded in the Atlantic Fleet in all of WWII. And the submarine? In 1954, Chicagoans raised $250,000 to bring her home. She was towed across Lake Michigan and dragged through the streets of Chicago to the Museum of Science and Industry. She's still sitting there right now. You can walk through her.

Willis Reed on Wilt Chamberlain compared to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Wes Unseld: “Unseld was the least offensive-minded of the three. Alcindor was the most. But Wilt is more diversified than both. He can score, he can rebound and he can play defense.” (Apr. 25, 1970)

Tiger Stadium - our favorite view 📸Source: talksport.com

Hitting .409 in a 162-game span is actually mind blowing.

Dickie V is one of my favorite people in sports. Prayers for him and his family.

A day after ! What an amazing final ! @umichbball completes the hard earned journey to be a great champion ! @UConnMBB fights and digs and claws with the heart of a champion. Congrats to both for fighting to the finish . Great job by @TNTSportsUS and @CBSSports Ian , Raf and Grant . What a night !

Wilt Chamberlain records 15 blocks in a win over the Detroit Pistons. • 53 PTS | 21-25 FG • 21 REB • 15 BLK (Oct. 24, 1965)

FYI: Besides adding Wilt Chamberlain’s blocks data for the 1972-73 season in which she averaged 5.4 per game, @bball_ref has added blocks to individual games where there is documentation, which now includes the Christmas Day game in 1968 with 23 blocks

Pirates shortstop and MLB’s #1 prospect Konner Griffin’s first big league at bat was one to remember. He hit an RBI double and scored a run on Jared Triolo’s single. The crowd in Pittsburgh is electric as the O’s bullpen is already stirring with activity.

James Tolkan has died at 94. "Son, your ego's writing checks your body can't cash." - Top Gun (1986) This scene is a masterclass in movie shorthand. In seconds you get Maverick’s attitude, his history, how he flies, and the entire setup. And Tolkan absolutely nails it.

Fun night! Thank you, @Braves for letting me be a part of Opening Day! Sid, Ralph and Joe!

I've added these two autographs to my collection in the past couple of weeks. I added Russell today.

This scene in Miami Vice where "In the Air Tonight" by Phil Collins plays stands as one of TV's all time greatest cinematic sequences. It effortlessly establishes the mood and highlights just how far today's television industry has fallen. This authentic soul is gone.

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Dan Patrick is my favorite. I have been listening to him for decades. I don’t agree with everything he says, but he truly is the best.