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In Stanley Cup Playoffs history, 211 teams faced a 3–0 deficit in a best-of-seven series. Of these teams, only four overcame the deficit (~2%). Only one overcame the deficit in the Stanley Cup Finals. [11] Three comebacks were completed with game seven away, while the 1942 Toronto Maple Leafs completed the comeback on home ice.
This is a list of the largest sports contracts. These figures include signing bonuses but exclude options, buyouts , and the endorsement deals. This list does not reflect the highest annual salaries or career earnings, only the top 100 largest contracts and thus is largely limited to athletes in team sports and auto racing .
The world best time for a "football 40" is 4.17 by Deion Sanders, while the extrapolated best for an Olympic-level athlete (including reacting to a starting gun) is 4.24 by Maurice Greene at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics. [250] [251] Under conventional football timing on a turf field in 2017, Christian Coleman reportedly ran a 4.12 ...
Roy Halladay 's #32 was retired by the Blue Jays, and his #34 is retired by the Phillies. Jackie Robinson ’s #42 has been retired by every team in MLB, due to him breaking the color barrier in baseball. Gil Hodges ' #14 was retired by the Mets and Dodgers. Willie Mays ' #24 was retired by the Giants and Mets.
The longest American League winning streak is 22, by the 2017 Cleveland Indians. The longest winning streak consisting only of playoff games stands at 12 consecutive wins, by the 1927, 1928 and 1932 New York Yankees (who swept the World Series all three seasons) and tied by the 1998–99 Yankees. According to Major League Baseball's policy on ...
3–2. List. Shares best home record in NBA history (with 1985–86 Boston Celtics ), with only loss inflicted by the 73–9 Warriors. Best home start in NBA history (39–0), part of a 48-game home winning streak dating back to 2014–15 season. Best season record that was not also league-best record. Gregg Popovich.
Every active NBA franchise has played in at least one game seven. There have been thirteen NBA playoff seasons in which no game seven was played: 1947, 1949, 1950, 1953, 1956, 1958, 1967, 1972, 1983, 1985, 1989, 1991, and 1999. The 1994, the 2014 and the 2016 postseasons hold the record for most game sevens played, with five.
The world's most valuable sports teams, as ranked annually by the American magazine Forbes, include teams from association football, American football, baseball, and basketball . In 2016, the National Football League (NFL)'s Dallas Cowboys simultaneously became both the first team to surpass $4 billion in value and the first non–association ...