THIS DATE IN SPORTS
Compiled By PAUL MONTELLA By The Associated Press
Aug. 18
1923 — Helen Mills, 17, ends Molla Bjurstedt Mallory's domination of the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association championships and starts her own with a 6-2, 6-1 victory.
1957 — Floyd Patterson knocks out Roy Harris in the 13th round at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles to retain his world heavyweight title.
1994 — South Africa is introduced for the first time in 36 years during the opening ceremonies of the 15th Commonwealth Games held in Victoria, British Columbia. South Africa had been banned from the games since 1958 because of its apartheid policies.
1995 — Dominique Moceanu, 13, becomes the youngest to win the senior women's all-around title at the national gymnastics championships in New Orleans.
2000 — Tiger Woods ties the 36-hole scoring record in the PGA Championship with a 5-under 67 to take a onestroke lead. Woods, at 11-under 133, ties the mark for relation to par last set by Mark O'Meara and Ernie Els in 1995. 2004 — Paul Hamm wins the men's gymnastics all-around Olympic gold medal by the closest margin ever in the event. Controversy follows after it was discovered a scoring error that may have cost Yang Tae-young of South Korea the men's all-around title. Yang, who finished with a bronze, is wrongly docked a tenth of a point on his second- to-last routine, the parallel bars. He finishes third, 0.049 points behind Hamm, who becomes the first American man to win gymnastics' biggest prize.
2008 — A day after winning an Olympic gold medal in Beijing, Rafael Nadal officially unseats Roger Federer to become the No. 1 tennis player. Federer had been first in the rankings for 235 weeks. 2010 — Fresno State and Nevada announce they are leaving the Western Athletic Conference for the Mountain West. 2012 — Tina Charles has 23 points and nine rebounds to lead the Connecticut Sun to an 85-74 victory over the New York Liberty. Charles becomes the fastest player in WNBA history to reach 1,000 rebounds, accomplishing it in her 89th game.
2013 — For the first time in Solheim Cup history, the Europeans leaves America with the trophy. Caroline Hedwall becomes the first player in the 23-year history of the event to win all five matches. She finishes with a 1-up victory over Michelle Wie and gives Europe the 14 points it needed to retain the cup. 2013 — Usain Bolt is perfect again with three gold medals. The Jamaican great becomes the most successful athlete in the 30-year history of the world championships. The 4x100-meter relay gold erases the memories of the 100 title he missed out on in South Korea two years ago because of a false start. Bolt, who already won the 100 and 200 meters, gets his second such sprint triple at the world championships, matching the two he achieved at the Olympics. With his victory, Bolt moves to the top of the alltime world championships medals table with eight gold and two silver, edging Carl Lewis, who had eight gold, one silver and one bronze.