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Is it possible any of these records could be broken ?
UCLA, under John Wooden won 88 games in a row from 1971-1974.
The L.A. Lakers won 33 games in a row from 1971-72.
Oklahoma University won 47 games in a row from 1953-1957. There are still some players from that time who can
truthfully say they never lost a game in their college career.
Joe DiMaggio hitting safely in 56 consecutive games.
Carl Hubble pitching 24 consecutive games without losing ( he had 2 no decisions ) from 1936-37.
Wayne Gretzky scored a goal in 51 straight games.
Sugar Ray Robinson won 91 straight boxing matches.
Lance Armstrong won the Tour de France 7 straight times.
Please give any other impressive streak you can think of. | |
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Posted: 6/6/2010 4:18:02 PM | The Maple Leafs streak for not winning a cup!
ok...seriously?
Edwin Moses in the 400 metre hurdles... no one in any sport will ever touch that guy or dominate a sport like he did... undefeated in ten years winning 122 consecutive races, 107 of which were finals, and owned and broke his own world record a few times
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Tah,
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| The most impressive sports streaks?
Posted: 6/6/2010 8:25:02 PM | ^^^ Then maybe you would care to contribute a sports streak from somewhere other than the US?
Penn State women's volleyball:
102 match win streak including 3 NCAA Div. 1 championships...and counting.
29 straight NCAA tournament appearances...and counting. | |
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Posted: 6/6/2010 8:28:14 PM | | To me, two of the most impressive streaks we will ever see are Cal Ripken Jr.'s and Brett Favre's consecutive game streak. I don't know how long those streaks will last, but those are two of the most impressive streaks to me. | |
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Posted: 6/6/2010 11:54:42 PM | Dallas Cowboys 17 playoff appearances in 18 years.
UCLA under John Wooden winning 10 NCAA Titles in 12 years ( 7 in a row ) | |
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Posted: 6/7/2010 3:15:45 AM | The great Russian Greco/Roman wrestler Alexander Karelin went undefeated for 13 years from 1989-2000,
including 3 consecutive Olympic Gold medals.
Sugar Ray Robinsons 91 boxing wins will never be approached. Todays boxers
will seldom even have 91 fights in their whole career. Robinson's career record
was 175-19-6, that's 200 fights in a 25 year career !
Floyd Mayweather Jr. is currently 41-0. Imagine, he needs to fight and win
another 50 times without losing to match Sugar Ray's record. | |
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Posted: 6/7/2010 4:19:21 AM | Good additions nipoleon
Sugar rays will never be touched
as for you tah...put up or shut up man... lets here these impressive non-american streaks...all well and good that youre griping...but your whine is a whine without substance to back it up...
use your google!
and that Russian wrestler..I forgot about him! Theres a non- US streak...
and oh yeah the Chicago Black Hawks might break their not-so-impressive streak of almost 50 years without drinking from Lord Stanleys Cup | |
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| The most impressive sports streaks according to americans?
Posted: 6/7/2010 6:37:29 AM | There is sport played outside of america in case you did not know!!
Wah, wah. You didn't offer any of your own, so quit your whining.
Another - one that's still going on! - is the UConn Women's Basketball team. They're up around 80 in a row and it will no doubt get extended next season. | |
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Posted: 6/7/2010 11:35:42 AM | has to be the current UCONN women's basketball streak
though my personal favorite streak is the 1999 Duke University men's basketball with
trajan langdon
corey maggette
elton brand
shane battier
chris burgess
william avery
chris carrawell
nate james
taymon domzalsk
it went undefeated during the ACC regular season and the the tourney 19-0 and was 37-1 going into the title game against UCONN....but for reason's still unkown to this day Coach K decided to allow trajan langdon to bring the ball up court and jack up a shot instead of leting william avery to bring the ball up and break the defender down to either get his shot or find the open man...but alas UCONN won the game by 3....but if memory serves me correct they won 31 games in a row | |
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Posted: 6/8/2010 7:37:32 AM | ^^^ That's THE MOST impressive in all of Sport?
Hardly. It's not even the most impressive in NHL history. You have to merely look behind that Islander run: the Canadians won 4 in a row the years immediately preceding the Islanders nice, but precedented, run. The Canadians also did FIVE in a row in the 50's.
Then there's the *8* straight NBA titles by the Celtics.
The Yankees won *4* or more in a row *twice*.
The Islanders had a nice run, it's up there. But it's far from THE most impressive.
And leaving the world of American Pro Sports for a second, there's Australia's 51 years of besting Fiji in Rugy. Yee-haw! (Had to throw that out, for our whiney friend from Down Under).
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Posted: 6/8/2010 8:46:28 AM | Wayne Gretzky scored a goal in 51 straight games.
Sorry, Gretzky's 51 game streak wasn't 'goals', it was a point scoring streak. It includes games where he only assisted on goals. Although, much more impressive about that streak is he scored 153 points in those 51 games! The longest 3 points per game run in the whole history of the NHL.
The NHL's 1979/1980 Philadelphia Flyers opened the season with a win and a loss followed by 35 consecutive games without a loss. The longest undefeated streak in pro sport's history.
Darryl Sittler's 10 point NHL game - 6 goals, 4 assists.
Futility records certainly would have to mention the Boston Red Sox's no-World Series record run, although hardly classified as an acheivement. | |
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Posted: 6/8/2010 9:33:01 AM | Cale Yarbourgh and Jimmy Johnson winning 3 titles in a row....not most impressive but worth mentioning
Alan Page played in 218 consecutive games.....that was the record Brett Farve broke but there is a difference in QB and Defensive End. Plus Page was the 70's not today. A lot rougher then.
Brett Farve also won MVP 3 years in a row. Peyton Manning has 2 in a row. Needs 2 more to beat him. Consecutive seasons with at least 3,000 passing yards: 18. Favre is the only quarterback to have led a team to victory over all thirty-two teams in the league since the NFL first expanded to 32 franchises in 2002.
Orel Hershiser - 59 straight scoreless innings
But Brett doesn't own the most consecutive games streak
Most Consecutive Games Played, 352 Jeff Feagles, September 4, 1988-Janury 3, 2010
Most Consecutive Passes, None Intercepted, 308, Bernie Kosar, 1990-91
Most Consecutive Seasons with an Interception, 19, Darrell Green, 1983-2001
Most Consecutive Wins, Regular Season and Post-Season, by a Starting Quarterback, 25, Jim McMahon, Chicago Bears, 1984-1987
Most Consecutive Wins, Regular Season, by a Starting Quarterback, 23, Peyton Manning, Indianapolis Colts, 2008-2009
Most Consecutive Starts by a Defensive player, 282 (270 starts, 302 including playoffs), Jim Marshall, 1960-1979
Sorry I googled and I love stats. A couple are very impressive. I'm a football man so didn't touch too much on other sports. | |
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Posted: 6/8/2010 12:38:07 PM | The Don.
Don Bradman's career Test batting average in cricket of 99.94
has been claimed to be statistically the greatest achievement in any major sport.
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Posted: 6/8/2010 4:19:52 PM | Alan Page played in 218 consecutive games.....that was the record Brett Farve broke but there is a difference in QB and Defensive End. Plus Page was the 70's not today. A lot rougher then.
Just about right. The longest Consecutive Game Streak in the NFL was made by a Minnesota Viking, and was made by a Defensive End, but that Defensive End was Jim Marshall, not Alan Page, and was 282 games long. Jim Marshall did one other things that was extremely impressive as well, well, at least to his opponents during that game. | |
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Tah,
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| The most impressive sports streaks ?
Posted: 6/8/2010 7:08:13 PM | @ Hawaiianluau
Your posting amongst americans here,mostly sport they don't play does not exist on the level they think they are at, you can see by the agro i recieved earlier, also american sport is littered with drug use, some say most of the money that funds the attempts to circumnavigate the doping authorities attempts to catch drug cheats comes out of America.
So alot is not really sport!.
"streaks" as they put em, well Roger Federer?
Rafal Nadal just got 5 in a row at Roland Garos?
Micheal schumacker?
Valentino Rossi?
Ayrton Senna's record at monaco
These guys took the world on
I would mention Lance Armstrong but I sense a bad taste there with some of the accusations and circumstances
These guys took the world on | |
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Posted: 6/8/2010 10:09:00 PM | | These are not thought of streaks but great achievments, The Yankees 28 World Series wins and Yogi Berra played on 10 World Series championships. John Woodens 7 straight NCAA championships and 10 overall will never be broken,bevause the high school stars only stay in college 1 year then turn pro. | |
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Posted: 6/9/2010 7:03:51 AM | Tah... youre pretty anti american eh?
maybe you should start your own thread then...
your first posting deserved what it got...you made some anti-whatever comments that were totally outof place, out of context, irrelevant and unnecessary...esp when you didnt bother to mention what you just mentioned abobve...why couldnt you have just mentioned the tennis and racing streeks and been done, like everyone else.
And read! Someone already mentioned Lance... whose an AMERICAN...but they rightfully omitted mentioning that fact, because nationalities here are irrelevant. Its about the GREATEST streaks. Your list...was pretty good! Esp. mentioning Shumacher; and Im sure if you stuck to the Op's topic people wouldnt tell you to put up or shut up... so lie in the bed youve made with your anti-yank comments,...
hell Im not an American and I found your comments totally unwarranted | |
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Posted: 6/9/2010 7:50:04 AM |
"streaks" as they put em, well Roger Federer?
Rafal Nadal just got 5 in a row at Roland Garos?
Micheal schumacker?
Valentino Rossi?
Ayrton Senna's record at monaco
These guys took the world on
I would mention Lance Armstrong but I sense a bad taste there with some of the accusations and circumstances
These guys took the world on
I had to google Michael Schumacker. Turns out he's a Formula 1 driver. Took on the world did he? The Formula 1 "World" consists of several dozen teams put together by corporations. Some world. Contrast that to... oh say basketball, which does have an estimated 400 million participants, the best of which tend to flock around the NBA. Come again, who is the more legit?
Ditto for Valentino Rossi. I suppose Motocross does have more participants than Formula 1. But it's still very much a niche.
And Ayrton Senna. Your athletes all seem to ride motorized vehicles. I'm sure there's plenty of concentration and stamina involved in these, but you're still basically sitting on your ass.
At least you're trying, which is better than the whining you were doing before. If it makes you feel any better, even Americans realize that Federer is one of the greatest tennis players anyone has ever seen. | |
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Posted: 6/9/2010 8:12:42 AM | Celtic FC went unbeaten at home for 77 games from 2001 to 2004. I think they hold the longest unbeaten run home and away as well but that was back in 1915.
There you go. A non-American sport for you! Hope it ticks all the boxes. | |
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Posted: 6/9/2010 11:15:36 AM | "streaks" as they put em, well Roger Federer?
Rafal Nadal just got 5 in a row at Roland Garos?
Micheal schumacker?
Valentino Rossi?
Ayrton Senna's record at monaco
These guys took the world on
I would mention Lance Armstrong but I sense a bad taste there with some of the accusations and circumstances
These guys took the world on
I had to google Michael Schumacker. Turns out he's a Formula 1 driver. Took on the world did he? The Formula 1 "World" consists of several dozen teams put together by corporations. Some world. Contrast that to... oh say basketball, which does have an estimated 400 million participants, the best of which tend to flock around the NBA. Come again, who is the more legit?
Ditto for Valentino Rossi. I suppose Motocross does have more participants than Formula 1. But it's still very much a niche.
And Ayrton Senna. Your athletes all seem to ride motorized vehicles. I'm sure there's plenty of concentration and stamina involved in these, but you're still basically sitting on your ass.
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Yes F1 does take on the world its the pinnacle of motor racing , mega popular all over the world. almost religion in some parts of the world, EU, South America, getting that way in Asia als, there have been some American F1 world champions.
I always disliked Senna, but hes so revered.
Valentino Rossi is grand prix bikes, not motorcross.
Whats so legit about basketball? over developed black guys that have ourgrown the courts.
Just because you Americans call your domestic sporting champions world champions doesnt mean they are. | |
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Posted: 6/9/2010 12:46:06 PM |
Just about right. The longest Consecutive Game Streak in the NFL was made by a Minnesota Viking, and was made by a Defensive End, but that Defensive End was Jim Marshall, not Alan Page, and was 282 games long. Jim Marshall did one other things that was extremely impressive as well, well, at least to his opponents during that game.
Yeah woops I corrected the mistake but forgot to delete the previous Alan Page stat. Jim Marshall will be forever tarnished by his "wrong way" TD, so tarnished that he's not in the HOF. One thing about before the 80's, sacks was not considered a Stat. So I could only imagine how many some players had back then with all the great Defensive Lines. Steel Curtain, Fearsome Foursome, Purple People Eaters, Killer Bees, and a few more I cannot remember right now. The Quarterbacks wasn't protected like they was today, so it would have been brutal. | |
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Posted: 6/10/2010 4:36:16 AM |
Yes F1 does take on the world its the pinnacle of motor racing , mega popular all over the world. almost religion in some parts of the world, EU, South America, getting that way in Asia als, there have been some American F1 world champions.
I always disliked Senna, but hes so revered.
Valentino Rossi is grand prix bikes, not motorcross.
Whats so legit about basketball? over developed black guys that have ourgrown the courts.
Just because you Americans call your domestic sporting champions world champions doesnt mean they are.
You Americans. I just love it when you furriners talk like that. I'm not denying lots of people WATCH your little motor cars whipping around in a big circle, Frankie Boy, but that's not the same as actively participating in it. When there are 400 million guys driving these F1 cars, many of them trying to climb to the top of the mountain, then we can compare your so-called sport with the international sport of basketball. Until then perhaps you should go on a walkabout, inhale an oil can of Fosters, or work on your forum quoting skills, right now they're atrocious. | |
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