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GO FIGURE
Edited by Richard O'Brien and Franz Lidz
October 14, 1996
51Years since Columbia's football team, which has beaten Harvard, Fordham and Holy Cross, last won its first three games.
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October 14, 1996

Go Figure

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51
Years since Columbia's football team, which has beaten Harvard, Fordham and Holy Cross, last won its first three games.

190,000
Reported amount, in dollars, offered to Tiger Woods to play in the Australian Open in November, $32,000 more than the fee reportedly being paid to Greg Norman.

17
Seconds left in the Northwestern-Michigan game last Saturday when ABC's New York affiliate switched to Ohio State-Penn State, causing thousands of viewers to miss the field goal that gave the Wildcats a 17-16 win.

15:03
Time that IBF super middleweight champion Roy Jones spent answering questions live on HBO immediately before fighting Bryant Brannon last Friday.

5:23
Time it took Jones to knock out Brannon.

-24
O.J. Simpson's score on a polygraph test he took before his murder trial, according to Jeffrey Toobin's book The Run of His Life; a score of -6 or lower is considered an indication of lying.

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