1898 \u2014 Malcolm Whitman wins the men\u2019s singles title in the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association championship.<\/p>\n
1926 \u2014 Molla Bjurstedt Mallory beats Elizabeth Ryan to capture her seventh singles title in the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association championships.<\/p>\n
1933 \u2014 The first televised boxing match is an exhibition fight between Archie Sexton and Laurie Raiteri, staged at the Broadcasting House in London.<\/p>\n
1946 \u2014 The College All-Stars beat the Los Angeles Rams 16-0 at Chicago\u2019s Soldier Field.<\/p>\n
1947 \u2014 The College All-Stars beat the Chicago Bears 16-0, before a record crowd of 105,840 at Chicago\u2019s Soldier Field. It\u2019s the second and last time that the college team won in consecutive years.<\/p>\n
1969 \u2014 Audrey McElmory becomes the first American to win the world road cycling championship which is held in Brno, Czechoslovakia. McElmury overcomes rain and a fall during the fourth lap of the 62-kilometer race to beat Britain\u2019s Bernadette Swinnerton by one minute and 10 seconds.<\/p>\n
1975 \u2014 Classical Way completes the trotting sweep by winning the Challenge Cup in 3:07.1 at Roosevelt Raceway.<\/p>\n
1987 \u2014 Callit wins the International Trot in 2:33.4 at Roosevelt Raceway.<\/p>\n
1995 \u2014 Denis Pankratov of Russia breaks a 9-year-old world record in the men\u2019s 100-meter butterfly at the European swimming championships in Vienna, Austria with a time of 52.32 seconds.<\/p>\n
2004 \u2014 The U.S. softball team wins its third straight gold medal with a nearly unblemished romp through the Olympics, capped by a 5-1 victory over Australia. Lisa Fernandez pitches a four-hitter and Crystl Bustos homers twice in the Americans\u2019 best all-around game of the tournament.<\/p>\n
2008 \u2014 The star-studded American women\u2019s basketball team led by the likes of Lisa Leslie, Sue Bird & Diana Taurasi win the gold medal at the Beijing Olympics with a convincing 92-65 win over Australia.<\/p>\n
2008 \u2014 At the Beijing Games, Angel Matos of Cuba and his coach are banned for life after the taekwondo athlete kicks the referee in the face following his bronze-medal match disqualification against Kazakhstan\u2019s Arman Chilmanov. Matos is declared the loser for taking too much injury time after hurting his leg. Matos angrily questions the call, pushes a judge, then pushes and kicks referee Chakir Chelbat of Sweden.<\/p>\n
2012 \u2014 Lance Armstrong chooses not to pursue arbitration in the drug case brought against him by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. That\u2019s his last option in his bitter fight with USADA and his decision sets the stage for the titles to be stripped and his name to be all but wiped from the record books of the sport he once ruled.<\/p>\n
2014 \u2014 Nick Davila passes for 237 yards and eight touchdowns and the Arizona Rattlers win their third consecutive ArenaBowl title with a 72-32 victory over the Cleveland Gladiators.<\/p>\n
2015 \u2014 Ohio State becomes the first unanimous preseason No. 1 in The Associated Press college football poll. The defending national champion Buckeyes, receive all 61 first-place votes from the media panel in the rankings.<\/p>\n
2015 \u2014 Usain Bolt wins the 100-meter race at the World Championships in Beijing, edging Justin Gaitlin by 0.01 seconds.<\/p>\n
2020 \u2014 UEFA Champions League Final, Lisbon: Kingsley Coman heads German giants Bayern Munich to the club\u2019s 6th crown in a 1-0 win over Paris St-Germain.<\/p>\n
2020 \u2014 Takuma Sato of Japan wins his second Indianapolis 500 under yellow caution flag after a crash with three laps remaining.<\/p>\n
2024 \u2014 Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers steals a base and hits a grand slam in 7-3 win at home over Tampa, becoming just the 6th MLB player to have 40 home runs and 40 stolen bases in a season; he does so in the fewest amount of games, 126.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1898 \u2014 Malcolm Whitman wins the men\u2019s singles title in the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association championship. 1926 \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":766832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[97838,97841,97837,7,97844,919,97836,27929,97835,97843,97845,48570,97839,17650,97840,97842,29496,29494,5443,97834,7392,89077],"class_list":["post-818585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-angel-matos","tag-archie-sexton","tag-arman-chilmanov","tag-basketball","tag-bernadette-swinnerton","tag-chicago","tag-denis-pankratov","tag-diana-taurasi","tag-elizabeth-ryan","tag-justin-gaitlin","tag-kingsley-coman","tag-lance-armstrong","tag-lisa-fernandez","tag-lisa-leslie","tag-malcolm-whitman","tag-nick-davila","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-shohei-ohtani","tag-sportlight-august-23","tag-sue-bird","tag-takuma-sato"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117143018099261113","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818585","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=818585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}