Hat tricks have a rich history in hockey, but it didn't start there. For NPR's Word of the Week, we trace the term's some 150-year-history and why it's particularly special on the hockey rink.
In the Premier League’s 31 seasons, 369 hat-tricks have been scored. That is quite a few match balls handed out to the respective scorers, resting on a commemorative plinth, or in a perspex case, or ...