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
This weekend’s American Athletic Conference championship game in college football will feature two teams that share what word in their nicknames?
Green
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THE PROFILE
Sometimes hailed as the most psychologically penetrating profile in the magazine’s history, Frank Deford’s 1978 piece “Raised by Women to Conquer Men” expounds an overtly Freudian theory of which athlete’s success? His name is redacted twice from the passage below.
He assaulted the opposition, laid waste to it, often mocked it, as well, simply by the force of his presence. The other players feared to go against him, because the most awesome legend that can surround any athlete sprang up about ___: the better any mortal played against him, the better ___ became. So, he became invincible upon the court, because no man could beat him, and he was inviolate off the court, because his mother had told him so.
Jimmy Connors
Baseball
Two Hall of Famers grew up across the street from each other in tiny Lansing, Ohio, in the 1940s and '50s. One was future NBA Finals MVP and Boston Celtics legend John Havlicek. The other, like "Hondo," starred in three sports at Bridgeport High School, but instead of the hardwood, he took a crack at a career on the mound. Who was this pitcher, who would go on to win over 300 games in the majors, with more than 275 of them coming after the age of 30? (Hint: you might want to use just the surname to be safe.)
Phil Niekro