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
Baseball
What school has the unfortunate distinction of being the only team to lose as a 2-seed to a 15-seed on more than one occasion in the NCAA Men's Basketball tournament?
Arizona
Football
Who caught Tom Brady's first NFL touchdown pass? He led New England in receiving yards each year from 1998-2000, but was, in effect, cut by Bill Belichick partway through the Pats 2001 Super Bowl season.
Terry Glenn
Hockey
In 2004, Avalanche forward Steve Moore was marked for retribution by the Canucks, one of whom punched Moore in the back of the head, broke three vertebrae, and ended his career. In 2000, after losing a fight to Donald Brashear, an angry Bruin slashed Brashear in the head, sending him tumbling to the ice with a concussion. In 1988, Leafs defenseman Luke Richardson checked a North Stars player into the boards, and in retaliation, the player clubbed Richardson over and over with his stick. All three players involved in these incidents achieved the rare distinction of being arrested for their on-ice conduct; name any one of them.
Todd Bertuzzi, Marty McSorley, Dino Ciccarelli