On the subject of home runs, nobody in MLB has hit one in their first and last at bats. Some first, some last, but not both.
I’m certain that it’s happened in baseball multiple times when there was a one-round (only the World Series) or two-round championship. The New York Knicks played 25 out of a possible 26 games in the 1994 NBA playoffs, but they lost.
This actually happened to the baseball coach at the High School my son attends when the coach was in college. He was even mentioned on Paul Harvey’s show.
No NBA team has ever swept the post season. The 2001 Lakers and 1983 76ers only lost one game. The 2008 Celtics took their sweet time (7, 7, 6, and 6).
NBA record for fewest points in a quarter is 2, set by Dallas in 1997 (Derek Harper) and Goldenstate against the Raptors in 2004 (Erik Dampier). That’s the definition of basketbawful right there.
As for less humiliating examples, I couldn’t find any but I’m sure it’s not too uncommon with a really good player on a terrible team. I know in that game 5 against Detroit several years back LeBron was the only Cavalier who scored in the last 2 OTs.
No, three isn’t as rare as all that. I can think of games that I’ve witnessed that had scoring in three EI’s, so given that I’ve seen only an infinitesimal fraction of all games in history there must be a lot.
As you go to four or five scores, the number would drop pretty rapidly–I can’t think of a game I’ve ever seen or read about with four EI scores, although I’m sure there have been some.
If nobody answers you might want to ask this in a separate thread–I know there are people with searchable databases that could answer.
who can forget Moses Malone’s poignant: “Fo, Fo, Fo”
And one guy (Bill Mueller) who did one lefty and one righty.
Here’s one: AFAIK, no team has ever scored exactly one point in an NCAA football game.
Yes, it is possible - if a team scores a touchdown, and somehow commits a safety on the extra point, the other team gets one point. (I am not sure what the rule is for a safety on an extra point in the NFL.)
several teams have made it to the final of the UEFA Champions League two years in a row - but no team has won two years in a row.
You can’t score on an opponent’s extra point attempt in the NFL. If the defending team gains possession the ball is dead.
Sure they have; just not since it was named the Champions’ League. Hell, multiple wins in a row were practically the norm before they renamed it for '92.
In cricket, especially outside the more slog-happy variants liek Twenty20, six sixes in an over is very rare.
It happened at high school level in a Rugby League knockout competition. One of the best teams in the country, IIRC, St Gregory’s kicked off, the other team fumbled and St Gregs picked up the ball and scored in that set of tackles. In RL the non-scoring team kicks off after a score. For the rest of the half St Greg’s made no errors and scored on every set of tackles after they received the ball.
The opposition kicked off to start the second half and the pattern continued until the end of the game. St Gregory’s made no tackles in the game and the only players on the other team to touch the ball were the guy who fumbled it and people kicking off.
To my knowledge, Lou Piniella remains the only player in MLB history to be thrown out at every base in a single game.
That "record’ just seems like it should belong to Bob Uecker.
And I think you will find that Lock took the first wicket in the match and Laker the next 19.
Strangely enough, Laker does not often enter discussions of “greatest spinners of all time”.
Not lately, anyway.
Not entirely true. This isn’t in the spirit of what you’re saying (someone with a substantial MLB career) but… One John Miller, career minor leaguer, was called up twice in his career. Once, for 6 games, in 1966 when he was in the Yankees organisation, when he hit a homer in his first MLB appearance. Then again, in 1969 when he was in the Dodgers organisation, he was called up for 26 games, and hit a homer in his final plate appearance.
100 Meter Dash: No man has done it in under 9 seconds. No woman has done it in under 10 seconds.
Heh. It kind of does - until you realize it involves getting on base and/or making contact 4 times in a game (rather than a week).
And running as far as third. 
Uecker was so slow he was thrown out at the plate coming from second on a triple.