The trivia league taking a broken world by storm.
What is AST?
- A head-to-head daily sports trivia division
- 12-day "Fortnights" occurring at least 6 times per year
- Matches Monday through Friday only
- Twenty-four hours to answer five questions
- Defensive strategy to stymie your opponent
- Promotion/relegation from one Fortnight to the next
Sample Questions
Football
Before Tyus Edney become a UCLA folk hero, making a mad dash down the court and scoring the game-winning layup in a March Madness game, he starred at Long Beach Polytechnic High School (Calif.) next to this player, who, after devouring quarterbacks on the football field, averaged 14 points and 13 rebounds for the Jackrabbits basketball team in 1989-90. He went on to play college football a short drive away, before being selected fourth overall in the 1994 NFL draft, winning three Super Bowls as a key piece of a perennially staunch defensive unit. (Fun fact: His other high school classmates included Snoop Dogg and Cameron Diaz.)
Willie McGinest
Hockey
This player, who officially retired in October 2018, is the first Inuit person to participate in an NHL game. He spent the majority of his 723-game career plie-ing right wing for the Nashville Predators.
Jordin Tootoo
Baseball
Gil Meche pitched for the Mariners and Royals in a career that lasted from 1999 to 2010, and made one All-Star appearance in 2007. He was also immortalized by Band of Horses in a song, the title of which includes an adjective in front of his first name. The adjective is used in its slang positive context here, though by and large it's considered a negative word. (That said, if you want to hear it used positively most often in the U.S., you'd need to go to a city whose baseball team won two World Series titles during Meche’s career.) What's the adjective?
Wicked