It took 12 hours and 2,750 shots for Dr. Tom Amberry, a 71-year-old retired California podiatrist, to set the world record for free throws consecutively shot and made. Over and over, 10 bored ...

The man who holds the record for most consecutive free throws made had earlier played basketball for both Concordia, Moorhead, Minn., and the University of North Dakota. Unlike most great free throw ...