Many us us have seen the problems which start you out with a number and a sentence with a few words missing, and you have to figure out how the number fits into the sentence. For example, 8 = S on a S S could be answered 8 sides on a stop sign.

Can you figure out all these sports related starter problems? (One disclaimer, anything I've seen on TSN or ESPN counts as a "sport")

5 = S on a H T
5 = P in a F of F P B
5 = C in a P H
5 = S in a M's T M
5 = C R on the O L
5 = P N of the T B
5 = M for a M P in H
5 = L C S of W S C (Y, 1950-)
5 = C of the O S on a P T

Well I've been wracking my brain trying to figure out those last three and I got nothing.

As for #8, when I first saw LCS, League Championship Series jumped out at me, but they didn't start playing those until 1969 and Cory says that his LCS isn't a "standard" wording, so there goes that theory...

But the Y could stand for Yankees. The Yankees have lost the seventh (and final) game of the World Series five times since 1950, but I can't seem to get that to fit that into the LCS thing. Maybe someone else can...

Posted by yocko on 2005-04-13 17:52:07