1994 Sports: The Great College Football Debate & Seven-Game Showdowns
This article offers a snapshot of 1994 sports, a year that saw a great debate in college football and a fabulous spring of postseason play in both the NBA and NHL.
This article offers a snapshot of 1994 sports, a year that saw a great debate in college football and a fabulous spring of postseason play in both the NBA and NHL.
This article offers a snapshot of 2005 sports, a year that saw a seven-game NBA Finals showdown, 6-seed magic in the NFL playoffs and some great pitching in baseball’s postseason. The year was marred by a NHL lockout that canceled the entire season, and the year was ultimately defined by two big showdowns for college championships.
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 1993 sports, one that might be called the year of the walkoff. The NBA Finals ended on a walkoff trey, and the World Series ended with a walkoff home run.
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 1991 sports, a year that saw a new standard of excellence in the NFL, an unforgettable World Series and big basketball breakthroughs.
Editor’s Note: 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 1990 sports, a year that saw a big upsets in the key NFL playoff games and complete college football chaos break out.
The 1982 Los Angeles Lakers got off to a rocky start. They were coming off a disappointing season in 1981 and an early first-round playoff exit, and before we got out of December in this season, tensions between Magic Johnson and head coach Paul Westhead had reached the point that Westhead was fired. Considered a spoiled coach-killer at the start of the year, Magic had a chance for redemption in the 1982 NBA Finals.
The Phils were a proud franchise, but they were on hard times. They had not seen the World Series since 1950. Even a winning season had been elusive since 1967. Danny Ozark took the managerial reins in 1973, and by ’75, the Phils finally won more than they lost. Now the question was if they could overtake the Pittsburgh Pirates, the traditional power in what used to be the National League Eas
The 1976 baseball season saw the New York Yankees return to prominence, winning the AL East for the first time since the divisional split took place in 1969. The Kansas City Royals were a completely fresh face on the postseason stage, capturing the AL West and ending the Oakland A’s dynastic run of the early-to-mid 1970s.
Editor’s Note: 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 1989 sports, a year that saw an amazing sequence of events unfold for Michigan basketball, the World Series marred by an earthquake and Wayne Gretzky changing sides
The Buffalo Bills came to the end of the 1992 NFL season the same way they’d reached the previous two—as AFC champions. But the Bills yet to win the sport’s ultimate prize and the pressure was on in the 1992 Super Bowl to win their first title.
There’s not a lot of diversity in a sports fans’ daily sports TV choices on Wednesday, but the one option there is at least a big-time option—or at least as big-time as is possible in the month of July. It’s the Boston Red Sox and Tampa Bay Rays (7 PM ET, ESPN) as the AL East race continues to heat up on Wednesday night from Fenway Park.
The Alabama Crimson Tide had not won a national championship in the post-Bear Bryant era, and while they opened the 1992 college football season ranked #9, there were not tremendous expectations—at least outside Tuscaloosa—that this would be the year that changed.
Miami was the preseason #1 team in the country and had split the championship vote the previous year with Washington. The Hurricanes had won four national championships over the previous nine years and come within one play of two more.