This is part of a series of sports history articles aimed at preserving the best moments of the modern sports era, from 1976 to the present. The focus is team sports—college & pro basketball and football, major league baseball and hockey. This article offers a snapshot of 1981 sports, a year highlighted by Dwight Clark’s catch, a wild NCAA Tournament and an epic Game 7 at Boston Garden.
This is part of a series of sports history articles aimed at preserving the best moments of the modern sports era, from 1976 to the present. The focus is team sports—college & pro basketball and football, major league baseball and hockey. This article offers a snapshot of 1980 sports, a year that dynasties end in the NHL & college football, Magic Johnson electrify the NBA as a rookie and the Philadelphia Phillies complete a memorable ride to a World Series title.
The year in 1979 sports carries a special place in basketball lore, as Michigan State’s Magic Johnson and Indiana State’s Larry Bird met in the NCAA final that drew the highest TV ratings in the history of that event and set the stage for a new era in the NBA. That’s fair enough as the prime story of the year. There are a few things that we shouldn’t lose sight of though.
This article offers a snapshot of 1978 sports, a year that saw dynasties reign–the Yankees and Canadiens repeated, the Steelers and Alabama football won the first of consecutive titles and Kentucky won in college hoops.
This is part of a series of sports history articles aimed at preserving the best moments of the modern sports era, from 1976 to the present. The focus is team sports—college & pro basketball and football, major league baseball and hockey. This article offers a snapshot of 1976 sports, a year that saw future legends like Bob Knight and John Madden win their first championships, an aging dynasty in the Celtics win one more and the Big Red Machine solidify their place in history. We go through the seasons in order–college basketball, to the NBA & NHL, to major league baseball, to college football and concluding with the NFL.
This post is part of a series of sports history articles commemorating under-the-radar teams and moments in a given year. This article focuses on the 1994 Montreal Expos, the best team in the National League and deserving of a better fate than a greed-driven strike gave them.
Editor’s Note: This post is part of a series of sports history articles commemorating under-the-radar teams and moments in a given year. This article about the 1992 Miami Hurricanes recalls a memorable run of miracle finishes as the team made a drive at a repeat national title that ultimately came up just short.
This post is part of a series of sports history articles commemorating under-the-radar teams and moments in a given year. This article focuses on the 1991 Boston Celtics, where the original Big Three of Larry Bird, Kevin McHale and Robert Parish made their last stand together.
This post is part of a series of sports history articles commemorating under-the-radar teams and moments in a given year. This article focuses on the 1996 UMass basketball team of John Calipari and Marcus Camby that after several years of knocking on the Final Four door, finally beat it down.
This post is part of a series of sports history articles commemorating under-the-radar teams and moments in a given year. This article focuses on the 1990 Portland Trail Blazers, who supplanted the Showtime era Los Angeles Lakers atop the NBA Western Conference.
This post is part of a series of sports history articles commemorating under-the-radar teams and moments in a given year. This article focuses on the 1997 Cleveland Indians, who turned around an underachieving regular season into an exciting sequence of upsets in the American League playoffs.
This post is part of a series of sports history articles commemorating under-the-radar teams and moments in a given year. This article focuses on the 1989 Illinois basketball team, who produced the school’s first Final Four run in nearly forty years.
