Baseball

In 1997, an outfielder from Rice put together one of the greatest hitting seasons of all time. He hit for a .431 average with 41 HRs and 134 RBI in just 63 games, making him the NCAA D-1 record holder for RBI/game for a season. He was drafted 16th overall in the MLB Draft that year and enjoyed a 15-year career with 6 All-Star appearances. Who is he?

Lance Berkman

Uncategorized

Before the Super Bowl halftime show took on a life of its own when Michael Jackson preformed in 1993, the 1992 halftime show was “Winter Magic, salute to the 1992 Winter Olympics” (I’m not making this up). Strangely, a major pop star preformed her hit songs “Get on your Feet” and “Live for Loving You?” She would go onto preform, much more fittingly, at the 1999 Super Bowl in Miami…becoming the only person to perform at two Super Bowls in the 90s. Name her.

Gloria Estefan

Hockey

Slap Shot

Speaking of Butch and Sundance… here’s another film starring Paul Newman and directed by George Roy Hill. This 1977 comedy about minor league hockey is replete with quotable lines and cult characters, the most enduring of which are the Hanson brothers.  The original plan was to have three real-life brothers who played minor-league hockey portray the Hansons… until one of them got called up to the Edmonton Oilers and had to be replaced. What is the real last name of the three brothers originally cast as the Hanson brothers… a name which is also the last name of a current NHL player with more than 1,000 games played? 

Carlson