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Who is the best MLB team ever?

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The 1927 New York Yankees will forever hold a place in baseball's record books, thanks to the best lineup in MLB history. New York set single-season records for OPS (. 872), wRC+ (126) and an outstanding . 307 batting average. Who is America's favorite baseball team? The New York Yankees, looking for a fourth consecutive World Series title, are the number-one baseball team in the nation, based on fan preferences. Read More...

Did Tiger Woods buy his mother a house?

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In 2007, media outlets reported that he bought his mother two plots of land in Jupiter, Fla., for around $2.4 million. According to public records in 2010, another home in Windermere, Fla., was listed under both Woods' and his father's names worth $1.31 million. Where does Tiger Woods mother live now? Although she's lived in the United States for most of her life now, Kultida Woods was born in Thailand. Read More...

Why do zambonis not slip?

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The tires have studs to keep the Zamboni from sliding helplessly around the ice. Until the early 1960s, Ahearn said, the machines had sand-coated tires to give them traction. Doing tricks with the machine these days isn't easy. How do zambonis get traction? Each tire on the Zamboni machine is hand-studded, with around 400 Tungsten Carbide studs used for each machine's full set of tires. Do Zambonis have breaks? It's all hydraulics -- there's actually no brake on it. Read More...