CYBERSPORTS PROVIDING INSTANT AMAZEMENT.Byline: - Tom Hoffarth How rare was the Kings' three-goal, third-period comeback in Game 4 of their series against Detroit last week? By the numbers, it was pretty near ridiculous, according to the stat freaks at WhoWins.com, who put it into context within hours of the game's conclusion last Thursday night. From a database listing every goal scored in each of the 2,369 NHL NHL Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, see there playoff games played under a best-of-seven format since 1939, and using a variety of sources for its computation, the Missouri-based company discovered something astounding a·stound tr.v. a·stound·ed, a·stound·ing, a·stounds To astonish and bewilder. See Synonyms at surprise. [From Middle English astoned, past participle of astonen, . When a playoff team led by three goals with 13:52 elapsed e·lapse intr.v. e·lapsed, e·laps·ing, e·laps·es To slip by; pass: Weeks elapsed before we could start renovating. n. in the third period, it won 355 of the 357 games (.994). The odds actually increased for teams that had a two goals with 17:32 elapsed in the third period - a 556-3 record (.995). And when a playoff team led by one goal with 19:06 elapsed in the third period, its record for that game was 659-17 (.975). The Kings' goals were scored at 13:53, 17:33 and 19:07 of the third period. Hockey isn't the only sport WhoWins.com goes stat crazy for. In addition to being a member of the Society for International Hockey Reserch (www.sihr.org), it also belongs to the Society for American Baseball Research For other uses, see SABR (disambiguation). The Society for American Baseball Research was established in Cooperstown, New York, in August of 1971. The Society's mission is to foster the research and dissemination of the history and record of baseball, while generating interest (www.sabr.org) and the North American Society for Sport History (www.nassh.org). --ESPN.com has added an online version of ``2-Minute Drill'' game show on its site (http://games.espn.go.com/2minute/index.html). ``I encourage citizens to play the online game,'' said Kenny Mayne, who is host for the TV-show version for ESPN that will return in June. ``I don't know if they win anything, but I'm hoping they'll be brainwashed brain·wash tr.v. brain·washed, brain·wash·ing, brain·wash·es To subject to brainwashing. n. The process or an instance of brainwashing. by us and end up being viewers of the TV program by the same name.'' --With the San Francisco-based Quokka quokka a small, nocturnal wallaby (Setonyx brachyurus) which is especially sensitive to nutritional myopathy. Called also Rottnest quokka. Sports filing for bankruptcy this week, the company has returned the site it developed for the 2002 Winter Olympics (www.saltlake2002.com) to the SLOC SLOC Source Lines Of Code SLOC Software Lines of Code SLOC Sea Lines of Communication SLOC Salt Lake Olympic Committee SLOC sea line of communications (US DoD) SLOC Skilled Level of Care SLOC Strategic Lanes of Communication . The futures of other sites it runs, including FinalFour.net and Golf.com, are uncertain. |
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