10/08/1908 - Cubs and Giants face off in tiebreak Thanks to the gaffe made by Giants first baseman Fred Merkle, the Chicago Cubs were spared another loss the 1908 season. This came back to haunt...

11/10/1963 - Howe sets scoring record With 15:06 to go in the second period, Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings scores his 545th career goal, passing Maurice "The Rocket" Richard for the most in...

1/23/1944 - Red Wings win 15-0 Before a crowd of 12,293 at Olympia Stadium, the hometown Detroit Red Wings defeat the New York Rangers, 15-0, in what remains the largest blowout in NHL history....

(Screencap from ESPN News. Captured by Inhistoric.com) The National Hockey League was, and still is, a very niche sport. Prior to 2004, the NHL was considered one of the four major sports leagues...

9/23/1908 - Merkle commits bonehead error The first famous gaffe in MLB history occurs as Giants first baseman Fred Merkle fails to tag all the bases in a critical game with the Chicago Cubs....

(Lawrence Tynes celebrates his winning kick. Photo by David J. Phillip, AP) 1/20/1996 - FOX unveils glowing hockey puckAt the 1996 NHL All-Star Game, FOX introduces the "FoxTrax" hockey puck. A...

11/16/1957 - OU's 47-game winning streak snaps On the 50th anniversary of Oklahoma's admission into the United States, an un-ranked Notre Dame team pulls off one of the greatest spoilers in college...

In an epic day in sports history, Jackie Robinson makes his MLB debut, John Havlicek steals the ball, Tim Duncan agitates Joe Crawford, an octopus gets thrown on the ice for the first time, and a famous poultry product emerges in San Diego.

I was watching the Philadelphia Flyers - Washington Capitals play-off game the other night and something hit me, something I should have seen long ago but didn't - Kyle Busch is NASCAR's version of...