Since May 2001, Spanish teams have played non-Spanish teams in 23 finals across the Champions League, Europa League, World Cup, European Championship. The Spanish side has won all 23 finals.
Richard Jefferson and Channing Frye say a random guy ran up to their truck holding the Larry O'Brien trophy under a blanket and asked if they wanted it
"People don't know this story. We're driving in this parade. All of a sudden, we see this guy run up to us holding the trophy, but it's covered in a blanket. He goes, 'Do you guys want this?'"
"I thought the guy was going from car to car to car. Apparently the trophy had taken a wrong turn down an alley, and the guy takes it off, runs it through the crowd, and tries to get it to the next car. The next car is Channing and I"
"Which of course Channing and I are the only people with the trophy during the whole parade. We're like, 'How did we get this trophy?'"
"The two delinquents. Because if the crowd knew he had that trophy, he would have died"
Channing Frye on what he noticed in the locker room when he got traded to Cleveland at the deadline in 2016:
“I wouldn’t say spoiled, y’all were very unappreciative of what you had. Again three and a half hour Scott Skiles practices to go into a game to go well come on get that belt, just you know like I had seen you two weeks before that we had practiced so hard to try and beat y’all and y’all were like, oh we’re just going to beat y’all by 20 like you just walked on the court and beat us. So when I was there I was like, man. Y’all don’t practice that hard, you have LeBron and Kyrie, Kevin and y’all don’t even talk. So, you know, listen little Veno, I put everyone on text chat and started, you know, sending gifs. And what it started with was, “Shut the hell up, Channing.” Then it went to, “Oh, now we’re talking to full communication.”
(Via @Rjeff24)
The Cleveland Guardians have an exit velo celebration.
Travis Bazzana told me how it works:
hit it 95+ mph = 👍
under 95 mph = 👎
Sorry in advance to the anti-analytics crowd! | @FanDuel | #guardsball
Mexique Angleterre :
- 2 buts en 1 minutes de Bellingham.
- Lucarne de Quinones.
- Des arrêts de fou de Pickford.
- Carton rouge pour l'Angleterre.
- Penalty pour l'Angleterre.
This is real footage from 126 years ago.
What you are watching is the trottoir roulant, the moving sidewalk, built for the great World's Fair in Paris in 1900.
More than a century ago, three years before the Wright brothers would make the first airplane flight, the city built an electric street that carried you across itself while you simply stood there...
It ran in a loop of around three and a half kilometres, raised on a viaduct above the fairgrounds, with nine stations where you could step on and off.
And it had a clever design: two moving platforms side by side, one going at walking pace and one faster, so you could step onto the slow one first, then onto the quick one, and ride the whole circuit in about twenty-six minutes without taking a single step.
Nearly fifty million people came to that fair, and for most of them it was the first time they had ever moved through a place without taking a step.
The very first moving walkway had appeared seven years earlier, at the World's Fair in Chicago in 1893, built by the same designers. But the Paris version was longer, faster, and far more sophisticated, and it was here that the world truly fell in love with the idea.
It astonished people. The thought that the ground itself could carry you felt like magic, like something out of a dream of the future. They even called it the Rue de l'Avenir: the Street of the Future.
Thomas Edison sent a crew to film it, which is why we can still watch it today...