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Thursday, August 18, 2011

On this Day.....August 18th

Today is Thursday, August 18, 2011

Today in
Sports History
1915 - Braves Field was inaugurated with Boston defeating the St. Louis Cardinals 3-1.

1956 - The Cincinnati Reds and Milwaukee Braves combined for a National League record of 10 home runs. The Reds won 13-4. Bob Thurman (Cincinnati Reds) hit three of the home runs.

1960 - Lew Burdette threw a no-hitter against the Philadelphia Phillies. The final score was 1-0.

1973 - Hank Aaron set a major league record with his 1,378th extra base.

1980 - George Brett of the Kansas City Royals had his batting average reach the .400 mark.

1981 - Herschel Walker of the University of Georgia took out an insurance policy with Lloyd’s of London. The all-American was insured for one million dollars.

1982 - The longest baseball game played at Wrigley Field in Chicago, IL, went 21 innings before the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Cubs 2-1.

1987 - Earl Campbell announced his retirement from the National Football League (NFL).

1992 - Larry Bird, after 13 years with the Boston Celtics, announced his retirement.

1995 - Tom Henke (St. Louis) became only the seventh major league player to record 300 saves.

1996 - Frank Thomas (Chicago White Sox) became the fourth player to reach 100 RBIs in each of his first six seasons.

1996 - Wade Boggs became the 41st major league player to get 2,000 career singles.

1968 - At the Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mike Powell set a record when he jumped 29'4½" in the long jump.

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Saturday, July 9, 2011

On this Day.....07-09

Today is Saturday, July 9, 2011
Today in
Sports History
1968 - The first All-Star baseball game to be played indoors took place at the Astrodome in Houston, TX.

1985 - Herschel Walker of the New Jersey Generals was named the Most Valuable Player in the United States Football League (USFL).

1985 - Joe Namath, signed a five-year pact with ABC-TV to provide commentary for "Monday Night Football".

1997 - Mike Tyson was banned from the boxing ring and fined $3 million for biting the ear of opponent Evander Holyfield.

2000 - Pete Sampras of the United States set a record when he won the men's singles tennis championship at Wimbledon. It was his 13th Grand Slam title.

2002 - The major league baseball All-Star game ended in a 7-7 tie after 11 innings. Baseball commission Bud Selig called the game after both team managers informed him that they had run out of players.

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Sunday, January 30, 2011

Not Bad........For a 48 Year Old

Herschel Walker is defying ....."Father Time".

From the New York Daily News:

Herschel Walker 2-0 in mixed martial arts after winning Strikeforce match vs. Scott Carson

By Nina Mandell
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Sunday, January 30th 2011, 3:27 PM

Chiu/AP

Herschel Walker celebrates after beating Scott Carson in a Strikeforce heavyweight mixed martial arts fight in San Jose, Calif.

He may be 48 years old, but Herschel Walker can still do more than hold his own in the ring.
The former NFL star won a one-sided mixed martial arts fight against Scott Carson on Saturday night's Strikeforce card.

Walker knocked Carson down 20 seconds into the first round, according to MMAFighting.com, and didn't look back from there.

After picking his younger opponent up and slamming him to the ground again, Walker only had to keep up a fight for 3 minutes and 13 seconds before the ref called it quits.
Ever the perfectionist, Walker pointed to a couple mistakes he saw in the quick bout in the post-game interview.

"I relaxed a bit and I got kicked," he said in the post-fight interview, "So yeah I gotta work on that."

It was the second fight for Walker, who remains undefeated in the sport. His opponent, however, wasn't exactly the toughest.

According to MMAWeekly, Carson had fought only once in the last nine and a half years.

Walker said he was just thrilled to be back in the cage and fighting again.

Walker made his MMA debut last January and said he wasn't totally focused on getting back in the cage yet.

"If I come back, I'm definitely going to fight somebody tougher," Walker said in the post-fight interview.

His only priority now, he said, was getting back in the gym and working out more.
"I just want to train and bring more recognition to the sport," he said. ‘I just to make a little bit more money for these guys."

As for rumors that he was trying to make a comeback to the NFL, Walker said he was merely misquoted.

"The comment that I made was somebody asked me if I could play today and I said there's no doubt in my mind I could play," he said. "And they asked me if I came back which team I would play for and I said I'd play for Atlanta, that's home for me … but I never said I was coming back."
nmandell@nydailynews.com

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Monday, January 24, 2011

"Stuff".........From the Week-end

In this small, southern, college town.......

It's still winter........but it was in the 50's .....today. And no snow or ice.

Nice......

Some "stuff"......we're following in the sports world:

R.I.P.........Jack Lalanne ......You mean....."He's not going to live forever"?