LOS ANGELES – It began with a Sunday morning hangover, and it ended 12 hours later with a moonlit walk along Sunset Boulevard. In between, best friends Sam Lipton and Daniel Alfredson accomplished something that had not only never been attempted before, but had never been possible: attending five games in five American pro sports leagues in a single day, in a single city.
In truth, their journey had begun five years earlier. The idea first occurred to Lipton and Alfredson in 2013, when the two sports-mad Chicagoans imagined out loud how cool it would be to hit up five major sporting events, in one town, in a 24-hour span.