And the Winner's Not... Trivia Quiz

Answer: Man o' War

Man o'War only lost one race in his 21 documented races. Upset was a 100 to 1 longshot who had little glory following this miracle win. But to this day, the sports term "upset" is used whenever a heavily favored opponent loses to an underdog. Some argue the term came FROM this race, but the term seems to show it had been in use before this race occurred, it was just ironic that history transpired to have a horse named "Upset" be the only blemish in Man o'War's storied career.

The term can be used as a noun ("Smith is a 40-1 underdog, is an upset possible?") or a verb ("The Bulldogs upset the Tigers who were 35-pt. favorites.")

Answer: Brooklyn Dodgers

"The Giants win the pennant!" was only heard live by a small percentage of radio listeners, as the Brooklyn Dodgers had their own radio audience, and there was also a national unbiased radio broadcast. But the sheer ebullient joy of Russ Hodges; repeated phrase clipped together with the video footage has become the go-to images of the event that have remained for over sixty years.

The owner of that dramatic home run, Bobby Thomson, passed away in the summer of 2010. Thomson and the pitcher who threw the pitch, Ralph Branca, became close friends for many years after the event.

Answer: Jean Van de Velde

Playing aggressively on a hole he only needed a double bogey or better, he found knee deep rough, water, and even a bounce off the grandstands in the span of four shots. He shot a 7, and lost a sure win against two other golfers in a playoff. He would go on to win only one other tournament, a European Tour event in 2006.

Answer: JR Hildebrand

JR Hildebrand had the race completely in hand when the handful of racers ahead of him had to make pit stops due to near empty gas tanks. But a slight turbulence caused by a car several laps down in the center of Turn Four caused him to hit the wall at over 200 mph. He continued down the straightway wall in a crumpled heap only to watch Dan Wheldon pass him. Hildebrand's slow momentum actually did carry him across the finish line to end up second.

Sadly, the race Wheldon would end up winning would be Wheldon's final win. In October of 2011, Wheldon would succumb to severe injuries sustained in a Las Vegas race. He was 33. Hildebrand would sustain non-life threatening injuries in the same multi-car crash.

Answer: Houston Cougars

Led by coach Guy Lewis, the high-flying Houston Cougars were nicknamed Phi Slama Jama, as Olajuwon and Drexler had tremendous athleticism. They would often finish their drives with thunderous slam dunks and intimidate opponents into submission. But in this final game of the 1982-1983 season, during a time before the shot clock was implemented in college basketball, North Carolina State would play a ball control offense and play directly at Olajuwon in an attempt to get him into foul trouble. The game would end on a slam dunk by NC State's Lorenzo Charles to take the lead in the final two seconds, 54-52. This led to a scene of bedlam highlighted by coach Valvano desperately trying to find someone to hug, coupled with Olajuwon pounding the floor in emotional anguish.

The Houston Cougars would return to the championship game in 1984 only to lose to an equally intimidating team in the Georgetown Hoyas, led by Patrick Ewing. The 1983-84 Houston Cougars are often the first team mentioned on the list of "Best NCAA Basketball teams NEVER to have won a championship."

Answer: Mike Tyson

"Iron" Mike Tyson's loss to Buster Douglas would start the unraveling of a career and the life of a man filled with emotional demons. Soon after the loss he would be sentenced to prison for six years (he served three), and he would never garner the same champion status he singularly owned back in the late 1980s.

As for Douglas, he would go for the quickest and highest payday available and fight the Number One contender Evander Holyfield, one of the few boxers that would allow for a major payout to take place. With the threat of ANY boxer being capable of beating Buster Douglas, he went straight for Holyfield knowing would likely be the only chance for him to get a payout high enough for him to retire.

He would lose to Holyfield in the third round by knockout.

Answer: Alydar

Affirmed and Alydar, if you believe horses have definitive personalities, exhibited polar opposites. Affirmed personified (or "horse-ified") a blue collar style of racing, whereas Alydar seemed to be the rich playboy (play-horse?) in his demeanor leading up to races. In the end, Affirmed beat Alydar by less than a combined two lengths in all three races, or approximately 15 feet over a span of the races' less than four miles. Affirmed as of 2011 was the last horse to win the Triple Crown, and Alydar was the first horse, and also as of 2011 the last horse, to finish second in all three Triple Crown races. (Please eliminate previous sentence if the 'as of' info is not desired.)

Alydar would show a bit of an edge in the stud abilities, siring two Triple Crown race winners in Alysheba and Strike the Gold. Affirmed was never able to sire a winner of similar magnitude.

Answer: New York Yankees

What made the comeback sweeter for Boston Red Sox fans is that it came against the hated Yankees. In the final Game 7, played in New York, Johnny Damon hit a grand slam in the second inning, and the Yankee fans sensed a doom that they knew they would never live down. Views on television of Yankee fans' faces seemed as if they had just been told their ship they were aboard, the Titanic, was going to sink. And knowing he animosity between Yankee and Red Sox fans, some may have thought the Titanic passengers had it better.

The Boston Red Sox would go on to win their first World Series in over eighty years, convincingly beating the St. Louis Cardinals.

Answer: Dale Earnhardt

In the final turns of the 200th and last lap of the race, Dale Earnhardt, racing third at the time, made an attempt to slow the momentum of the racers behind him to improve the chances of victory of his two teammates, Waltrip and his son Dale Earnhardt Jr., who were the only two drivers ahead of Dale Sr. at the time. Earnhardt's attempts got him tangled up with another racer and he would collide with the outside wall in what seemed to be a rather benign crash at the time of the wreck. Sadly however, Dale Earnhardt Sr. would be killed instantly from the impact.

He was 49.

Answer: Greg Norman

Norman's 6-shot lead by the end of the day had morphed into a 5-shot deficit and a second place finish. Norman's career struggles at the Masters were magnified by this loss, and Greg's Norman's career would end without ever getting the elusive green jacket that goes with Masters victory.

In 2011 a young Brit named Rory McIlroy would suffer a similar fate at the Masters, leading the tournament by four strokes at the start of the final Sunday round, but would shoot seven over par on the final nine holes to finish fifteenth. this Masters collapse was quickly overshadowed by Rory McIlroy's convincing victory at the U.S. Open Golf Championship, a tournament he would win by eight strokes over the nearest competitor. breaking several records in the process. Greg Norman would never achieve victory at a major golf tournament again after his nationally televised nosedive at Augusta in April of 1996.