1. Running Back Curtis Dickey was the first player to score a touchdown as an Indianapolis Colt. It was also the first touchdown scored in an NFL game at the Hoosier Dome. The Colts opened the 1984 season against the New York Jets at the Dome. After a scoreless 1st quarter, Dickey popped in from 3 yards out in the 2nd quarter to register the first points of any kind for the Indianapolis franchise. It was for naught, however. The Jets won the game 23 to 14.
2. Dick Trickle was the 1989 NASCAR Winston Cup Rookie of the Year. Trickle has won over 1,200 races of all classes in all kinds of race cars, which is more than any other American driver. In addition, he possesses one of the most iconic and descriptive names in all of sports.
3. John Isner of the United States won the longest recorded tennis match in history in 2010 at Wimbledon against Frenchman Nicolas Mahut. The first round match took 11 hours and 5 minutes over 3 days. It twice had to be suspended on account of darkness.
4. The Japanese Men’s Olympic Swimming Team won all the swimming gold medals at the 1932 Summer Olympic Games held in Los Angeles except one. Larry “Buster” Crabbe of the USA Olympic Swimming team won the 400 meter Free Style event for the lone USA Men’s Swimming team Gold Medal. Buster Crabbe would go on to portray Tarzan, Flash Gorden, and Buck Rogers in the movies. He also played Wyatt Earp and Billy the Kid in some movie westerns.
5. Boxer Jack Britton of the United States owns the record for most title defenses. A three-time Welterweight Champion, Britton fought in 37 title fights from 1915 to 1923. Britton posted 19 wins and 18 no decisions in his title bouts. Britton was born in Clinton, New York on October 14, 1885. He started his professional boxing career in 1905 and fought for almost 25 years. He had 350 professional fights and won 213 of them, 30 by knockouts. He passed away in 1962 at age 76 of natural causes.
6. Legendary hydroplane pilot Marion Cooper of Louisville, Kentucky, was the first winner of the Madison Regatta for Unlimited Hydroplanes in 1951 in his boat, the 225 cubic inch class Hornet. Racing boats had competed in Madison, Indiana on the Ohio River as early as 1911, but 1951 was the first sanctioned race for national High Points. The Regatta is the first official race of the season in Air National Guard H1 Unlimited series and is now officially known as the Lucas Oil Indiana Governors Cup Regatta. The year 2013 was the first time the race had to be cancelled due to flooding in the Ohio Valley.
7. It is said that each of the four kings in a deck of cards represents a great monarch from history. The King of Spades is said to represent King David, the King of Hearts is Charlemagne, the King of Diamonds Julius Caesar, and the King of Clubs is Alexander the Great.
8. In three years of play at the University of Kansas, from 1962 to 1964, Gale Sayers ran for 2,675 yards on 412 attempts for a 6.5 average and scored 18 rushing touchdowns for the Jayhawkers. He added 35 receptions for 398 yards and an 11.4 yards per catch average and caught a touchdown pass. Sayers, who was known as the Kansas Comet, was an All-American in both 1962 and 1963 and the 4th pick in the NFL 1965 College draft by the Chicago Bears. He is a member of both the College Football and Professional football Hall of Fame.
9. Of all the Indianapolis 500 Mile Race winners, Joe Dawson, the 1912 winner had the fewest total amount of laps led in his Indy career with just 2 laps in first position, but they were the most important 2 laps. Ralph DePalma had led 196 laps in the second 500 but his car broke down on the 198th lap leaving Dawson to take the checkered flag and the win. Dawson was from Indianapolis and was one of the youngest winning drivers ever at age 22 years and 86 days. He raced at IMS in the 500 three times including the first 500 in 1911 when he finished 5th. His last race was the 1914 500.
10. Tara Lipinski was the youngest woman ever to win an Olympic Gold Medal in Figure Skating at age 15 years 8 months. She is also the first skater male or female to achieve a triple loop triple loop combination. This was at the 1998 Winter Games in Nagano, Japan.