Today In Sports History 5/12

Our past has shaped the present by many things in history including sports, here is how sports marked our history today. Many believed that the boycott was in response to the U. S.’s boycott of the 1980 Olympics due to the Soviet Unions intervention in Afghanistan in 1979.

Baseball

• In 1933 Major League Baseball’s first All-Star Game took place at Chicago’s Comiskey Park.

Basketball

• In 1975 the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Bruins basketball team wins its 10th NCAA championship title under coach John Wooden

Football

• In 1967 the Green Bay Packers of the then National Football League (NFL) beat the American Football League (AFL)’s Kansas City Chiefs 35-10 in the first-ever AFL-NFL World Championship, later known as Super Bowl I.

Golf

• In 1997 Tiger Woods becomes the first person of color to win the Masters at Augusta National Golf Club, which admitted its first black member in 1990.

Hockey

• In 1980 the U.S. men’s hockey team pulls off one of the biggest upsets in sports history with a 4-3 victory over the heavily favored Soviet Union at the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York.

Miscellaneous

• In 1972 Title IX of the education amendments of 1972 is enacted into law. Title IX prohibits federally funded educational institutions from discriminating against students or employees based on sex.