Today In Sports History 8/27

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

Baseball

• In 1910 using twenty 137,000 candlepower arc lights, two amateur baseball teams play a night game at White Sox Park.

Basketball

• In 2004 in a huge upset in the men’s basketball semi final at the Athens Olympics, Argentina beats a star-studded US team 89-81, Argentina goes on to take gold and US bronze.

Boxing

• In 2017 former five-weight world boxing champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. defeats MMA fighter Conor McGregor in his debut match in the 10th round in Las Vegas.

Football

• In 1921 J E Clair of Acme Packing Co of Green Bay is granted an NFL franchise.

Golf

• In 1995 the 95th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods.

Hockey

• In 1996 Dino Ciccarelli is traded by the Detroit Red Wings to the Tampa Bay Lightning.

Miscellaneous

• In 1975 the first night match at US Tennis Open (Parun defeats Smith).

Olympics 

• In 1920 American diver Louis Kuehn leads a US medal sweep in the men’s 3m springboard event at the Antwerp Olympics; team mates Clarence Pinkston and Louis Balbach take the minor medals.