1984 College Football: The Road To The National Championship
The 1984 college football season provided thrills from September through November, but it led to an anticlimactic New Year’s Day
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The Playoff Teams & Legacy Of The 1985 NFL Season
The 1985 NFL season is remembered for the historic defensive dominance of the Chicago Bears. Led by Defensive Player of the Year Mike Singletary, colorful coordinator Buddy Ryan and head coach Mike Ditka, the Bears rolled to a 15-1 regular season record and won the Super Bowl.
But there was much more to the world of the 1985 NFL and the links below, with game-by-game narrative of twelve notable teams bring to light all the great stories of this season. You’ll see the following…
The 1983 College Football Season & The Road To The Major Bowls
The 1983 college football season was a seminal year in the history of the sport. Miami’s stunning upset of Nebraska in the Orange Bowl to win the national championship marked the start of a dynasty and dramatic shift in the balance of power to the state of Florida in general. 1983 was also a year […]
The 1982 College Football Season & The Road To The Major Bowls
The 1982 college football season was a historical landmark, as the legendary Penn State coach Joe Paterno won his first national championship, defeating Georgia in the Sugar Bowl to seal the deal. It was also a year where highly regarded early favorites did not play to form. This blog compilation tells the season-long story of […]
1978 College Football Season: The Road To The Major Bowls
Drama on the goal-line defined the 1978 college football season, with Alabama and USC getting shares of the national championship in bowl victories both dramatic and controversial.
The 1979 College Football Season’s Road To The Major Bowls
At first it looked like another year to argue over Alabama and USC, the way 1978 ended. Then it looked like a second straight year with co-national champions when Ohio State got in the mix. But in the end, the 1979 college football season proved to be about celebrating Alabama, as the Tide rolled to a second straight national championship, this one outright.
1987 Chicago Bears: Another Division Title & Another Missed Opportunity
The 1987 Chicago Bears were a part of the 1984-90 high point of the franchise’s modern history, an era that included the 1985 run to a Super Bowl trophy. In the 1987 the Bears won a fourth consecutive division title and were a 2-seed in the playoffs. But they were also a part of an […]
1980 College Football Season: The Road To The Major Bowls
The Georgia Bulldogs have been a pretty consistent winner over the years, but only once have they won the national championship. That came in the 1980 college football season, when a freshman running back named Herschel Walker came blazing onto the scene and transformed Georgia and the entire SEC for the three years he was in Athens.
The Rose Bowl Run Of 2000 Purdue Football
When Joe Tiller arrived in West Lafayette to take over the Purdue Boilermakers in 1997, the football program was on hard times. They hadn’t enjoyed a winning season since 1984. No consecutive bowl appearances since 1978-80. The last piece of a Big Ten title had been in 1967 and the last Rose Bowl trip was […]
The Amazing Year That Was 1986 Sports
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 1986 sports, a year highlighted by baseball drama, a great Super Bowl champ and two historic college championship battles.
The 1987 Los Angeles Lakers Return To Greatness
For a team that had won NBA championships in 1980, 1982 and 1985, the 1987 Los Angeles Lakers entered the season with a surprising amount to prove. Their repeat bid in 1986 had ended in the conference finals when they were taken apart by the Houston Rockets and it was said that the Lakers were […]
The Story Of The 1986 MLB Season
When baseball fans think of 1986, the first thought that comes to mind is a certain ground ball in the World Series, the heartbreak of the Boston Red Sox and the triumph of the New York Mets. But what cannot be overlooked is that the World Series was set up with a pair of League Championship Series that ensured the 1986 MLB postseason met whatever criteria there is for “epic.”