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1864 \u2014 The first Travers Stakes at Saratoga is won by Kentucky, a horse that scores 20 consecutive victories.<\/p>\n
1912 \u2014 John McDermott wins the U.S. Open golf championship for the second straight year with a 294 total.<\/p>\n
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1952 \u2014 Five American boxers win gold medals at the Olympics, marking the first time the U.S. wins the unofficial team title. The five medalists are flyweight Nate Brooks; light welterweight Charley Adkins; middleweight Floyd Patterson; light heavyweight Norvell Lee and heavyweight Eddie Sanders.<\/p>\n
1967 \u2014 The New Orleans Saints play their first preseason game and lose to the Los Angeles Rams, 77-16.<\/p>\n
1979 \u2014 New York Yankees catcher Thurman Munson is killed in a plane crash practicing takeoffs and landings near his Ohio home.<\/p>\n
1982 \u2014 Oakland outfielder Rickey Henderson steals his 100th MLB base of the season in 6-5 win vs. Seattle, first to steal 100 twice in modern era.<\/p>\n
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1986 \u2014 Jackie Joyner sets the world record in the heptathlon at the U.S. Olympic Festival in Houston with 7,158 points.<\/p>\n
1992 \u2014 Vitaly Scherbo of the Unified Team wins gold medals in the vault, rings, pommel horse and parallel bars to give him a total of six gold, the most won by a gymnast in a single Olympic Games.<\/p>\n
1996 \u2014 The star-studded United States men\u2019s basketball team, Dream Team III, beat Yugoslavia 95-69 to win the gold medal at the Atlanta Olympics.<\/p>\n
1996 \u2014 Down to her final long jump attempt and fighting an injured hamstring, Jackie Joyner-Kersee leaps out of sixth place and ends her Olympic career with a bronze medal. Joyner Kersee jumps 22 feet, 11 3-4 inches for her sixth Olympic medal.<\/p>\n
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1998 \u2014 Brandie Burton closes with an even-par 72 for a tournament-record 18-under 270 to win the du Maurier Classic by one stroke over Annika Sorenstam. It\u2019s the lowest score in relation to par at a women\u2019s major, breaking Betsy King\u2019s 17-under 267 in the 1992 LPGA Championship.<\/p>\n
2005 \u2014 In the largest trade in NBA history, Antoine Walker is dealt from Boston to Miami in a transaction involving five teams and 13 players. The Heat acquire point guard Jason Williams and small forward James Posey from Memphis, while the Grizzlies receive guard Eddie Jones from the Heat. The New Orleans Hornets and Utah Jazz also are involved in the deal.<\/p>\n
2009 \u2014 Catriona Matthew wins the Women\u2019s British Open for her first major title, beating Karrie Webb by three strokes just 10 weeks after giving birth to her second child.<\/p>\n
2012 \u2014 Carmelo Anthony and the U.S. men\u2019s Olympic basketball team rewrite the record books in a 156-73 romp over Nigeria. Anthony scores 37 points, including 10 of 12 3-pointers, to break the U.S. single-game scoring record in less than three quarters. When Andre Iguodala hits a 3-pointer with 4:37 left, the Americans surpass the previous Olympic record of 138 points set by Brazil against Egypt in 1988.<\/p>\n
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2012 \u2014 Gabby Douglas becomes the third straight American to win gymnastics\u2019 biggest prize when she wins the all-around Olympic title.<\/p>\n
2012 \u2014 Michael Phelps wins his first individual gold medal of the London Games in the 200-meter individual medley. The U.S. star becomes the first male swimmer to win the same individual event at three straight Olympics, capturing his 20th career medal \u2014 and 16th gold.<\/p>\n
2015 \u2014 American Pharoah delivers an encore performance in his first race since winning the Triple Crown, by cruising to a 2 1\/4-length victory in the Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park.<\/p>\n
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2015 \u2014 Inbee Park rallies to win the Women\u2019s British Open to become the seventh women to win four different major championships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1864 \u2014 The first Travers Stakes at Saratoga is won by Kentucky, a horse that scores 20 consecutive…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":801697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[5500,38087,2075,7,96511,3628,96510,96507,28500,96508,96506,96509,93308,96504,30485,26075,96513,94012,45710,96512,29496,29494,96503,96505],"class_list":["post-801696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-andre-iguodala","tag-annika-sorenstam","tag-antoine-walker","tag-basketball","tag-betsy-king","tag-carmelo-anthony","tag-catriona-matthew","tag-charley-adkins","tag-eddie-jones","tag-eddie-sanders","tag-floyd-patterson","tag-gabby-douglas","tag-inbee-park","tag-jackie-joyner","tag-james-posey","tag-jason-williams","tag-john-mcdermott","tag-karrie-webb","tag-michael-phelps","tag-nate-brooks","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-sportlight-august-2","tag-vitaly-scherbo"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}