The Golden Girls
At age 40, this basketball icon scored 43 points, becoming the first NBA player age 40 or older to score 40 in a game.
Michael Jordan
This quarterback entered the league from Miami (Ohio), won NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year, and later threw the game-winning touchdown to Santonio Holmes with 35 seconds left in Super Bowl XLIII. He also became the youngest starting quarterback to win a Super Bowl. Name him.
Ben Roethlisberger
This all-time MLB hits leader agreed to permanent ineligibility from baseball in 1989 after an investigation found that he had bet on MLB games, including games involving the team he managed. He later acknowledged betting on baseball and on that team.
Pete Rose
This former Alabama cornerback was selected 41st overall in the 2024 NFL Draft after earning first-team All-SEC honors in 2023. His given first name is Ga’Quincy.
Kool-Aid McKinstry
In this coming-of-age baseball movie, a new kid named Scotty Smalls joins a neighborhood team, only to hit his stepfather’s Babe Ruth–signed baseball over a fence into the yard of a feared dog known as “the Beast.”
The Sandlot
At age 44, this Texas Rangers pitcher threw a no-hitter in 1991, making him the oldest pitcher in MLB history to accomplish the feat.
Nolan Ryan
In the clinching game of the 2004 NBA Finals, this undrafted center put up 18 points and 22 rebounds while holding Shaquille O’Neal to just eight boards. He later matched Dikembe Mutombo’s record with four Defensive Player of the Year awards.
Ben Wallace
Before Pete Rose, the most famous gambling scandal in baseball involved eight members of the 1919 Chicago White Sox accused of taking money to lose the World Series. This legendary outfielder was one of the players banned from the sport for life.
Shoeless Joe Jackson
This defensive back earned a national championship ring at Alabama after tying for the SEC lead with five interceptions that year. In the NFL, he totaled 16 interceptions, made a Pro Bowl, and returned an interception 59 yards for his only career touchdown.
Ha Ha Clinton-Dix
Name the movie featuring characters Ronnie Bass, Petey Jones, and Louie Lastik.
Remember the Titans
At age 46, this golfer won the 1986 Masters, a victory that still makes him the oldest champion in the tournament’s history.
Jack Nicklaus
In 2009, this versatile switch-hitter posted a .297/.405/.543 slash line with 27 home runs, 91 RBIs, and 91 walks. He played seven defensive positions that season, made his first All-Star team, and finished eighth in AL MVP voting.
Ben Zobrist
In 2024, this Toronto Raptors two-way player received a lifetime NBA ban after an investigation found that he shared confidential health information with bettors, left games early to affect prop bets on his statistics, and wagered on NBA games himself.
Jontay Porter
This former Virginia left tackle started 49 games for the Cavaliers, earned first-team All-ACC honors in each of his final two college seasons, and was a first-team All-American as a senior. His No. 66 jersey has since been retired by Virginia.
D’Brickashaw Ferguson
At roughly $256 million in domestic box-office revenue, what sports movie is the highest-grossing live-action sports film in U.S. and Canadian theaters?
The Blind Side
At age 42, this pitcher hit the first, and only, home run of his Major League career, becoming the oldest player ever to hit his first MLB homer.
Bartolo Colón
In the 2000 Olympic gold-medal game, this right-hander threw a three-hit shutout against Cuba. Four years later, he struck out a franchise-record 18 batters in a complete-game win and finished the season with 264 strikeouts against only 32 walks.
Ben Sheets
A two-time All-Pac-10 guard and Arizona State’s No. 2 all-time scorer, this player joined a scheme in which the Sun Devils were supposed to win games but by fewer points than the betting line. In 1997, he pleaded guilty to conspiracy after accepting money to help shave points in four 1994 games, partly to repay a gambling debt to bookmaker Benny Silman.
Stevin “Hedake” Smith
This Louisiana-born wide receiver began his college career at Nebraska before transferring to Louisiana Tech. He gained national attention as a freshman through an NIL commercial for an air-conditioning company.
DeColdest Crawford
The college depicted in Glory Road entered the 1966 NCAA title game against Adolph Rupp’s undefeated Kentucky team with a 27–1 record. Its coach started Bobby Joe Hill, David Lattin, Orsten Artis, Willie Worsley, and Harry Flournoy—a lineup that secured a 72–65 win—and the institution adopted its current name the following year. What university is it now known as?
University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP)
At age 43, this Hall of Famer played limited minutes for the 1996–97 Chicago Bulls, but still became the oldest player ever to win an NBA championship.
Robert Parish
Before joining a title team that allowed no opponent to reach 100 points, in the Finals, this player spent two consecutive seasons rewriting the league’s technical-foul record first with 38, then with 41. He also made a Game 4 buzzer-beater in the 2007 Western Conference semifinals after guaranteeing a victory, and his three-word postgame refrain became a basketball catchphrase: “Ball don’t lie.”
Rasheed Wallace
This former Boston College forward was recruited by high-school acquaintance Rocco Perla into a 1978–79 point-shaving operation tied to Henry Hill and the Lucchese crime family. Prosecutors said he arranged for the Eagles to stay under the betting line in games where the mob bet against them; unlike teammates Jim Sweeney and Ernie Cobb, he was convicted of conspiracy and sports bribery.
Rick Kuhn
This former Providence point guard led the nation with 239 total assists while taking the Friars to the Elite Eight, where he scored 23 points in an overtime loss to the eventual national champions. Though he played only 20 NBA games, the signature crossover he popularized bears his name and remains a staple move for elite guards.
God Shammgod
F1: The Movie recently passed what film to become the highest-grossing sports movie worldwide?
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