It relies on its lineage, and I don't think there's another sport that cherishes its record book as baseball does.
In the 1995-6 regular season they won 72 games and lost just 10, a phenomenal record in a sport where the difference between victory and defeat is so slim.
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The indictment comes three months after the 43-year-old Bonds, one of the biggest names in professional sports, passed Hank Aaron to become baseball's career home-run leader, his sport's most hallowed record.
Tendulkar has broken every major batting record in the sport, being cricket's highest run scorer in Tests and one-day internationals and the scorer of the most hundreds at the highest level --- now 29 ahead of his closest rival, Australia's Ricky Ponting.
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In 13 seasons with the Boston Celtics, he won 11 championships -- a record unmatched in any sport.
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Now that she has won her first two MMA bouts -- both in the first round -- she has gone public as a transgender fighter, the first on record in a popular sport that some consider as the successor to boxing.
Both men have taken the sport to a new level with their record goalscoring feats -- Ronaldo has scored an astonishing 164 times in 160 appearances for the Spanish champions, while Messi hit 50 in La Liga alone last term.
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He has won 200 career races (a record), 7 Daytona 500s (a record), 7 Nascar season titles (a tie for the record) and ran one of the sport's longest-tenured teams (61 years).
But the loss to Helenius, 25, a silver-medallist at the 2006 European Amateur Championships, saw Gammer slump to a 18-4-1 record and again question his future in the sport.
The incentive structure in the sport means that wrestlers on the margin of achieving a winning record have far more to gain from winning than opponents, not on the margin, stand to lose if defeated.
But this obvious handicap did not prevent him hurling the 800-gram spear 81.81 meters -- his personal best, breaking his own national record -- in qualifying in London to join his sport's elite.
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Charles Yesalis, an epidemiology professor at Pennsylvania State University who has written extensively on the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport over the past 23 years, believes a "large percentage" of record-holders probably doped their way to the finish line.
And record-breaking X-Factor superstar Leona Lewis will be releasing the official Sport Relief single.
The campaign promises to be even better than last time around when Walliams swam the channel in record-breaking time and more than 400, 000 people did a mile for Sport Relief.
"Steve's wealth of experience is massive and his track record at this club shows just what a good manager he is, " Doyle told BBC Sport.
If this track record including his most recent comments is not enough to exclude him from being a poster singer for a sport played predominantly by African Americans, what is?
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