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...consumer-safety report issued last week says a record 10,580 people landed in the ER with amusement park- and carnival-ride injuries in 2000. That's the kind of stat that roller-coaster freaks take as a challenge. As they flood amusement parks this Labor Day weekend for a final dose of stomach-turning fun (or a shot at the record), we give you a handy guide to the summer's greatest thrills...
...summer of 1961, WIBG corraled a monstrous 33.3 percent of the listening audience, three times the share of its closest competitor. (In the glory days of AM radio, all FM stations together cadged only about 6 percent.) And if your mind isn't boggled yet, consider this stat, from the Philadelphia Music Alliance: Hy Lit's 6-10 p.m. shift on WIBG once earned an astounding 71 percent of the radio audience. Those are, I dunno, dictatorship numbers - about 10 times what the highest-rated show in any market (drive-time news, Howard Stern, Opie & Anthony) can pull in today...
Northwestern (8-9) has been about as consistent as its record indicates this year. A telling stat for the Wildcats is their three shutout wins and two shutout losses in its first month. Junior Zach Schara, a first-team All-Big Ten selection in 2000, leads a young and fairly deep rotation...
...defense had the greatest impact on the stat sheet, the kicking game provided Harvard with its greatest emotional boost. The Crimson's special teams unit had struggled missing eight straight field goals going into Saturday's game. The kickers' futility had prompted Murphy to adopt a "four down" offense...
Having said that, Yale's most impressive stat on the day was holding Reese to 86 yards...