ESPN the Magazine Presents The Answer Guy

Why do baseball fans stretch in the seventh inning? Why do hockey players wear shorts? What's so 'special' about special teams? These are the questions that try sports fans' souls. Answering them is the domain of Answer Guy, ESPN The Magazine's icon of industrious inquiry. Since the beginning of time (or the late 1990s), Answer Guy has tackled these mystries with a perspicacious inquisitiveness rarely seen in the annals of sports trivial. Mysteries lie: Why is a basket worth two points? Why is one under par called a birdie? Why do we sit in the stands?