#MIDDLEBURY #SPORTS
By Chris Richcreek
Questions
- How many times has a major-league team won a best-of-five playoff series after losing the first two games at home?
- In 2015, the Chicago Cubs set a major-league record for most home runs in a playoff game by one team (six). Who had held the mark?
- Who was the last NFL rookie before the Raiders’ Amari Cooper in 2015 to have three 100-yard receiving games in his first six games?
- Name the first two coaches to make the NCAA Tournament’s Final Four in two of their first three seasons as a men’s basketball head coach.
- True or false: The Pittsburgh Penguins have never clinched a Stanley Cup on their home ice.
- Who was the last male athlete before Ashton Eaton in 2016 to repeat as the gold-medal winner of the Olympic decathlon?
- Through 2016, the past three winners of the PGA’s Memorial tournament also have been a first-time PGA event winner. Name one of them.
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- Three: The New York Yankees (versus Oakland in 2001); San Francisco (versus Cincinnati in 2012); and Toronto (versus Texas in 2015).
- Five teams: New York Yankees (1928), Chicago Cubs (1984), Oakland (1989), St. Louis (2004) and Chicago White Sox (2005).
- Mike Ditka of the Chicago Bears in 1961.
- Ohio State’s Fred Taylor (1960, ’61) and Bill Guthridge of North Carolina (1998, 2000)
- True – they clinched the Stanley Cup on the road in 1991, 1992, 2009 and 2016.
- Great Britain’s Daley Thompson, in 1984.
- Hideki Matsuyama, David Lingmerth and William McGirt.
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