GO FIGURE
Edited by Jack McCallum and Richard O'Brien
December 23, 1996
10,076Holes of golf played in 1996 by Jake Engel of Oklahoma City, breaking by one the world record set in '69.
10,076
Holes of golf played in 1996 by Jake Engel of Oklahoma City, breaking by one the world record set in '69.
24
Inches from the floor to the basin of urinals in Denver's McNichols Sports Arena locker rooms, a figure that drew a rebuke from the NBA for being two inches lower than league standard.
2
Halftime espressos downed by Italian third-division soccer player Cristiano Gagliarducci, which put him over his league's "caffeine limit" and resulted in a three-month suspension.
536,488
Registered soccer players in Canada, a 13% increase from 1995.
533,571
Registered hockey players in Canada in 1996, marking the first time that hockey was not the country's most widely played sport.
33
Margin, in pins, of Walter Ray Williams Jr.'s three-match win over Wendy Macpherson in the $30,000 winner-take-all bowling battle of the sexes.