Current Champion
Matthew Riggle, career statistics:
47 correct, 6 incorrect
1/1 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
41.23% in first on buzzer (47/114)
3/3 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $7,600)
1/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $21,300
To win:
3 games: 68.027%
4: 46.277%
5: 31.481%
6: 21.415%
7: 14.568%
Avg. streak: 4.128 games.
(Next game: September 14)
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Upcoming Encore Presentations
August 12: S42 E98 (January 21, 2026)
August 13: S42 E99 (January 22, 2026)
August 14: S42 E100 (January 23, 2026)
August 15-16: S41 E141 (March 24, 2025)
August 17: S42 E101 (January 26, 2026)
August 18: S42 E105 (January 30, 2026)
August 19: S42 E102 (January 27, 2026)
August 20: S42 E103 (January 28, 2026)
August 21: S42 E104 (January 29, 2026)
August 22-23: S41 E142 (March 25, 2025)
August 24: S42 E106 (February 2, 2026)
August 25: S42 E107 (February 3, 2026)
August 26: S42 E108 (February 4, 2026)
August 27: S42 E109 (February 5, 2026)
August 28: S42 E110 (February 6, 2026)
August 29-30: S41 E143 (March 26, 2025)
(Source: Bell Fibe TV program guide)
All Time Winnings
All Time Jeopardy! Winnings, Regular Play Only:
1. Ken Jennings $2,520,700
2. James Holzhauer $2,462,216
3. Matt Amodio $1,518,601
4. Amy Schneider $1,382,800
5. Jamie Ding $882,605
6. Cris Pannullo $748,286
7. Mattea Roach $560,983
8. Jason Zuffranieri $532,496
9. Scott Riccardi $455,000
10. David Madden $430,400
11. Julia Collins $428,100
12. Matt Jackson $411,612
13. Austin Rogers $411,000
14. Ray Lalonde $386,400
15. Harrison Whitaker $373,999
16. Adriana Harmeyer $349,600
17. Caleb Groen $346,968
18. Adam Remsen $306,415
19. Ryan Long $299,400
20. Arthur Chu $297,200
All Time Jeopardy! Winnings, Including Tournaments (and Consolation Prizes):
1. Brad Rutter $4,968,436
2. Ken Jennings $4,372,700
3. James Holzhauer $3,614,216
4. Matt Amodio $1,964,601
5. Amy Schneider $1,864,800
6. Yogesh Raut $1,098,403
7. Mattea Roach $897,983
8. Jamie Ding $885,605
9. David Madden $785,733
10. Victoria Groce $773,801
11. Cris Pannullo $754,286
12. Roger Craig $706,200
13. Larissa Kelly $671,930
14. Matt Jackson $623,612
15. Jason Zuffranieri $549,496
16. Andrew He $534,365
17. Scott Riccardi $533,000
18. Jerome Vered $499,102
19. Julia Collins $495,767
20. Austin Rogers $493,000
21. Ben Ingram $449,201
22. Paolo Pasco $448,717
23. Adriana Harmeyer $446,600
24. Buzzy Cohen $441,603
25. Juveria Zaheer $441,000
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This past week’s Sports Jeopardy, in the I SHALL TAUNT YOU A SECOND TIME category, had the following clue:
As luck would have it, Game 7 of the 2004 ALCS is one of the 18 excised chapters from my second book, “The Games That Changed Baseball: Milestones In Major League History”, now available for pre-order from McFarland!
So, inspired by that, here you are:
Date: October 20, 2004
Site: Yankee Stadium I
Teams: Boston Red Sox vs. New York Yankees
Significance: Game Seven of the ALCS changes the fortunes of two bitter AL rivals and storied franchises
Impact: The “Curse of the Bambino” crumbles in spectacular fashion and ushers in a new MLB kingpin
“We’re haunted by the possibility of living an entire lifetime—80 to 90 years, followed by death—without celebrating a World Series title. That’s not a curse; it’s an imaginary guillotine that hangs over us every season. We’re just waiting for it to go away, that’s all. See, this is about life and death. And not in the traditional sense. A Red Sox championship always felt like a race against time. When journalist Marty Nolan wrote, ‘The Red Sox killed my father and now they’re coming after me’ (later quoted by David Halberstam), he wasn’t kidding. I keep thinking about my dad, and my friend Walsh, and my buddy Geoff’s mother-in-law Neets, as well as every other over-50 person in my life who follows this team. Those are the people who passed a certain point in life and started thinking to themselves, ‘Wait a second, is this thing EVER going to happen?’ Obviously, I’m not quite there yet; but after three decades of following this team, I could feel the guillotine inching closer and closer. That’s what it’s like to be a Red Sox fan.” — ESPN columnist Bill Simmons, during the 2004 World Series
“For all those who doubted baseball’s mystic chords of memory, who did not believe that there could be any real connection between various collections of wealthy athletes who happened to be gathered in the same place and in the same uniforms—for all those who doubted the continuity of the sport, whether it was described as a curse or the faith and hope of those who had a shared love of the game over the generations—the Red Sox, and their fans, had proved them wrong.”— Geoffrey C. Ward (Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns, Baseball: An Illustrated History, pp. 530-532.)
After the 1919 MLB season had concluded, George Herman (Babe) Ruth, the slugging pitcher/outfielder for the Boston Red Sox, was sold by cash-strapped team owner Harry Frazee to the New York Yankees. The Red Sox had been the dominant AL club during the 1910s, winning four pennants and four World Series. The New York Yankees had been perennial also-rans. Not only had they never once captured the AL pennant, they were only New York City’s second-favorite MLB club. The New York Giants, for the most part, were perceived as the greater baseball attraction in Gotham. The Ruth deal instantly reversed the fortunes of both the Yankees and Red Sox. The Yankees would win six AL pennants and three World Series in the 1920s and lay the foundation for the most successful franchise in MLB history. The Red Sox would not win another AL pennant until 1946. Their 1918 World Series triumph seemed destined to be the club’s last.
Boston fans, especially sports writer Dan Shaughnessy, irrationally liked to claim it was somehow all Ruth’s fault. He had hexed his former club with an unbreakable hoodoo. It was not true, of course. No mention of such a curse ever appeared during Ruth’s lifetime. Ruth’s daughter maintained he had never badmouthed the Red Sox or the city of Boston after 1919. (Such uncooperative facts didn’t stop Shaughnessy from penning a tome titled The Curse of the Bambino.) Still, the evidence was mounting that the baseball gods had it in for the Red Sox and their passionately devoted followers.