Scoring first is always a key to victory -- teams that scored first during the regular season won 68.8 percent of the 1,226 games in which goals were scored. That's up slightly from 67.1 percent last season and 68.0 percent in 2008-09.
Does the team that scores first usually win? The value of scoring first is that winning percentage 67% of all teams that score first. The value of scoring second is the winning percentage 67% of all teams that score second. Read More...
Traditionally, Liverpool's most vocal supporters congregate in this stand and are referred to as kopites. Such is the reputation of the stand that it was claimed that the crowd in the Kop could suck the ball into the goal and it has become one of the most famous football stands in the world.
Why is it called the Kop Liverpool? When Liverpool FC was building their new stand of cinder and brick in 1906, a local sports editor named Ernest Edwards noted that the new stand looked similar to the battlefield that many local men had died at. Read More...
So far, the tallest female gymnast has been Marie Sophie Hindermann, who has a height of 5'7″ and she competed in the Olympics in 2008. In males, it was Igor Cassina of 5'9″, who won gold in 2004. However, the tallest male gymnast who has been to the Olympics is Alexander Shatilov, who's 6 feet tall.
How tall is too tall for gymnastics? For those who are over 6 feet, don't give up on your gymnastic dreams yet! Read More...