This weekend in Sports history
Saturday
1923 — Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators (NHL) sweep Edmonton Eskimos (WCHL) in two games.
1973 — Ken Norton defeats Muhammad Ali in a 12-round split decision.
1975 — 37th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Kentucky 92-55; this is John Wooden’s final game and UCLA’s 10th NCAA championship in 12 years.
1980 — Larry Holmes TKOs Leroy Jones in 8 rounds for WBC heavyweight boxing title.
1985 — 4th NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship: Old Dominion beats Georgia 70-65.
1986 — 48th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: Louisville beats Duke 72-69.
1987 — 49th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: Indiana beats Syracuse 74-73.
1991 — 10th NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship: Tennessee beats Virginia 70-67.
1991 — St. Louis Blues’ Brett Hull scores his 86th goal.
1995 — Federal judge orders injunction to end MLB strike.
1996 — 15th NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship: Tennessee beats Georgia 83-65.
1997 — 59th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: Arizona beats Kentucky 84-79 (overtime). Sunday
1920 — Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators (NHL) beat Seattle Metropolitans (PCHA), 3 games to 2.
1938 — Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York.
1938 — Joe Louis knocks out Harry Thomas in five rounds for heavyweight boxing title.
1972 — Major league baseball players stage first collective strike.
1980 — Wayne Gretzky breaks Bobby Orr’s NHL record with 103rd assist of the season.
1983 — New York Islanders’ Mike Bossy becomes first to score 60 goals in three consecutive seasons.
1984 — Third NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship: Southern California beats Tennessee 72-61.
1985 — 47th NCAA Men’s Basketball Champion: Villanova beats Georgetown 84-75.
1989 — Former Yale University and National League president Bart Giamatti becomes seventh commissioner of Major League Baseball.
1990 — 9th NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship: Stanford beats Auburn 88-81.
1990 — CBS fires sportscaster Brent Musburger.
1991 — 53rd NCAA Mens Basketball Champion: Duke Bluedevils beats Kansas 72-65.
1992 — NHL players begin first strike in 75-year history.
1996 — 58th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Syracuse 76-67.
1997 — 69-year-old Gordie Howe begins playing AHL game with Syracuse Crunch.
2001 — The first Major League Baseball game is played in Puerto Rico, as the Toronto Blue Jays defeat the Texas Rangers 8-1.
2002 — Maryland defeats Indiana 64-52 to win the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia.