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Go Figure
December 29, 2008
256 Career losses by British welterweight Peter Buckley, 39, who retired in October after 300 fights.
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December 29, 2008

Go Figure

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256
Career losses by British welterweight Peter Buckley, 39, who retired in October after 300 fights.

16
Consecutive losing seasons by the Pirates, tying them with the 1933--48 Phillies for the longest streak in any major professional sport.

66
Runs surrendered by Kawamoto technical high school of Japan in the first 1 1/3 innings of a game against Shunshukan; at that point Kawamoto forfeited and Shunshukan was credited with a 9--0 win.

$2.6 million
Amount that Nevada sports books lost on the Super Bowl (of $92.1 million bet).

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Previous Super Bowl losses in the past 17 years for Nevada books: $400,000 in 1995.

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