If someone today averaged 20 wins every season for 25 straight years they would still fall short of 511 wins. How many pitchers in the last 25 years have had two or more 20 win seasons in their career?
Caitlyn Clark (3951 pts) passed the career mark, but Pete played in the era of Freshmen didn't play (same as Kareem), so his 3667 pts was done in 83 games, whereas Caitlyn's record was done in 139 games.
Plus there were no 3 pt baskets when Maravich played. Clark made a lot of 3pt baskets which made a difference in her career point total.
Bolt did it in three consecutive Olympics (2008, 2012, 2016).
Must of been too fast for me to remember, or I just keep "track" of the U.S. competitors...
How do you measure a quarter of a second? Not with a Timex!!
Oh yes, good ol Carmel. They only have 179 state championships through the years.
In high school I once came in third in a 220. My measured time was about half a second lower than the guy who came in second. It was the first time timing for the guy who was timing third place, and he started on the sound of the gun rather than when seeing the smoke.
the amount of time it takes sound to travel the distance from the gun (in the 100 and 200) to the finish line is relatively close to the average untrained reaction time.
Uh, no. You see the smoke 0.6 second before you hear the pop. So no matter the reaction time, the reaction starts that much later if you’re reacting to the sound than if you’re reacting to the smoke. Whether the person is trained or not is about a tenth of a second, much smaller than the time it takes for sound to travel 200m.
What? It's about 130m diagonally across the track. It takes sounds .35s or so to travel that distance.
The 220 on my high school track was straight. 200 m at 330 m/s is 0.6 s.
Not cool to bring up 2004 lol, that was just a historic run by the Redsox knew my Yankees were cooked after the Sox had back to back walk offs against Mariano in games 4 and 5.
I was working in SE CT in 2004, in the middle of serious NYY fandom kingdom. I stayed up and watched all of those games, and then had to be on the road by 6:45 am to get to the office by 8 am. My boss was also a BRS fan. Needless to say, there was A LOT of coffee consumed over those 16 days. One IT guy humorously needled me throughout both series and wanted me to make predictions. My response - I'm a Red Sox fan, and a realist, not an idealist. LOL
Very likely to be broken, since it's an active streak.
Funny thing is it was an off year for UConn. No bye in the BE tournament. They were lucky to get a 7 seed in the NCAA tournament. But they went nuts at the right time. Considering the circumstances it was truly remarkable.