Go Figure
Paul Zimmerman
February 11, 2002
$21.9 millionQuarter share of Florida's state lottery jackpot won by Peter Doubleday, a cousin of Mets' owner Nelson Doubleday; Peter, 51, plans to keep his job as a horse-show announcer at the Palm Beach Equestrian Club.
$21.9 million
Quarter share of Florida's state lottery jackpot won by Peter Doubleday, a cousin of Mets' owner Nelson Doubleday; Peter, 51, plans to keep his job as a horse-show announcer at the Palm Beach Equestrian Club.
125
Years that Montreal's McGill University has been playing organized hockey, making its team the world's oldest; in its first game, on Jan. 31, 1877, McGill beat a pickup squad 2-1.
$200
Retail price of Air Jordan XVII sneakers, which will arrive in stores this week packed in metallic briefcases rather than shoeboxes.
5, 2, 21
Years of probation, years banned from bowl games and scholarships revoked, respectively, for Alabama's football team, which was punished by the NCAA for numerous recruiting infractions; in 1995 Alabama got two years' probation for violating various other NCAA rules.