Today In Sports History 3/28

Our past has shaped present by many things in history including sports, here is how sports marked our history.

Baseball

• 2007 – Former Major League Baseball pitcher Ugueth Urbina is sentenced to 14 years in prison.

Basketball

• 1939 – Renaissance Big 5 win first pro basketball championship.
• 1942 – 4th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: Stanford beats Dartmouth 53-38.
• 1944 – 6th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: Utah defeats Dartmouth 42-40.
• 1950 – 12th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: City College of New York beats Bradley 71-68; CCNY becomes first to win NCAA and National Invitation Basketball in same year.
• 1972 – Wilt Chamberlain plays his last pro basketball game.
• 1977 – 39th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: Marquette beats North Carolina 67-59.
• 1982 – First NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship: Louisiana Tech beats Cheney 76-62.
• 1999 – 18th NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship: Purdue beats Duke 62-45 in San Jose California.

Boxing

Football

• 1963 – AFL’s New York Titans become the New York Jets.

Golf

• 1954 – Louise Suggs wins LPGA Betsy Rawls Golf Open.
• 1965 – Jo Ann Prentice wins LPGA All State Ladies’ Golf Invitational.
• 1982 – Amy Alcott wins LPGA Women’s Kemper Golf Open.
• 1993 – 22nd Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Helen Alfredsson.

Hockey 

• 1922 – Stanley Cup: Toronto Saint Patricks (NHL) beat Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA), three games to 2.
• 1975 – Washington Capitals win first game on road after 37 straight road losses also sets own team record with 17 straight losses.

Ice Skating

• 1952 – US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Tenley Albright.
• 1952 – US Men’s Figure Skating Championship won by Richard Button.
• 1953 – US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Tenley Albright.
• 1953 – US Men’s Figure Skating Championship won by Hayes A Jenkins.
• 1981 – Christa Rothenburger skates ladies world record 500 metre (40.18 seconds).
• 1981 – Gabi Schönbrunn skates ladies world record 3 km (4:01.70).
• 1981 – Yevgeni Kulikov skates world record 500 metre (36.91 seconds).

Olympics

• 1990 – U.S. President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal.
• 1992 – Ann Transon runs female world record 50km (3:05:01).
• 2009 – Three Canadian figure skaters (Barbara Underhill, Paul Martini, and Brian Orser) are inducted into the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame, in a ceremony at the world figure skating championships in Los Angeles, California.