Events in Sports History in 1985

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• Jan 1 14th Fiesta Bowl: #14 UCLA beats #13 Miami, 39-37
• Jan 1 51st Orange Bowl: #4 Washington beats #2 Oklahoma, 28-17
• Jan 1 51st Sugar Bowl: #5 Nebraska beats #11 LSU, 28-10

• Jan 1 71st Rose Bowl: #18 Southern California beats #6 Ohio State, 20-17
• Jan 2 Nevada Las Vegas basketball gives coach Jerry Tarkanian his 600th career victory with a 142-140 win over Utah State in triple overtime; total of 282 points breaks NCAA men's record of 275 set in 1976
• Jan 3 Future Indian cricket captain Mohammad Azharuddin scores 110 on debut in drawn 3rd Test against England in Kolkata

• Jan 6 AFC Championship, Miami Orange Bowl: Miami Dolphins beat Pittsburgh Steelers, 45-28
• Jan 6 NFC Championship, Candlestick Park, SF: San Francisco 49ers beat Chicago Bears, 23-0

• Jan 9 Flames set NHL record 264th regular season game without being shut-out

• Jan 13 23rd Tennis Fed Cup: Czech beats USA in Nagoya Japan (2-1)
• Jan 13 99-year-old Otto Bucher from Switzerland becomes the oldest man to record a hole-in-one at Spanish GC La Manga's 130-yard 12th hole
• Jan 13 Blackhawk Doug Wilson failed on 12th penalty shot against Islanders

• Jan 15 Mike Gatting (207) and Graeme Fowler (201) become first pair of England batsmen to complete double centuries in the same innings during 9-wicket 4th cricket Test win against India at Madras

• Jan 21 Dennis Potvin ties Bobby Orr's career record of 270 NHL goals

• Jan 26 Edmonton Oiler Wayne Gretzky scores 50th goal in 49th game of season
• Jan 27 Mark Mckoy cycles world record 50m hurdles indoor (5.25)
• Jan 27 NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: AFC beats NFC, 22-14; MVP: Mark Gastineau, NY Jets, DE
• Jan 28 Houston's Bill Fitch becomes the 6th coach in NBA history to post 600 wins as the Rockets beat the New Jersey Nets, 97-93

• Feb 1 Patient innings from Dilip Vengsarkar (137) and Mohammad Azharuddin (122) set India up for 5th cricket Test draw vs England in Kanpur; Azharuddin, 3 centuries in 1st 3 Tests

• Feb 7 NY Devil Don Lever becomes 57th NHLer to score 300 goals
• Feb 8 1st-class cricket debut of Jimmy Adams (age 17), Jamaica v Barbados
• Feb 8 Bruce Morris, Marshall Univ, makes a 92' 5½" basketball shot
• Feb 8 Michael Gross swims world record 800m freestyle (7:38.75)
• Feb 10 35th NBA All-Star Game, Hoosier Dome, Indianapolis: West beats East, 140-129; MVP: Ralph Sampson, Houston Rockets, C
• Feb 11 Kent Hrbek signs 5-year $6 million contract with Minnesota Twins
• Feb 11 Wasim Akram takes 10 wickets in his 2nd Test Cricket, NZ still wins

• Feb 12 West Indies beat Australia 2-1 to win cricket's World Series Cup (Australian Tri-Series)

• Feb 16 Largest NBA crowd to date, 43,816, sees Philadelphia at Detroit

• Feb 16 NJ Devils score their fastest hat trick in 42 seconds

• Feb 17 Dutch speed skater Hein Vergeer becomes World Allround champion

• Feb 20 After defending his WBC flyweight championship, Sot Chitalada's check for $104,000 is stolen by a ringside pickpocket
• Feb 21 Largest NBA crowd to date 44,970 (Atlanta at Detroit)

• Feb 23 Indiana University basketball coach Bob Knight throws a chair onto the court during a game
• Mar 1 Milwaukee businessman Herb Kohl purchases NBA's Milwaukee Bucks for $18 million

• Mar 8 6th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Georgetown beats St. John's, 92-80
• Mar 8 Ice Dance Championship at Tokyo won by Bestemianova & Bukin (URS)
• Mar 9 26th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Auburn beats Alabama, 53-49
• Mar 9 Ladies' Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Katarina Witt (East Germany)
• Mar 10 32nd ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: Georgia Tech beats North Carolina, 57-54
• Mar 10 Dallas Maverick coach Dick Motta is 4th NBA coach to win 700 games
• Mar 10 India beat Pakistan to win "World Championship of Cricket"

• Mar 19 NSW wins cricket Sheffield Shield by beating Queensland by 1 wicket

• Mar 24 Norman Gifford makes cricket ODI debuts at age 44 (v Aust, Sharjah)
• Mar 24 Third straight WTA Tour Championship for tennis legend Martina Navratilova; beats Helena Suková 6–3, 7–5, 6–4 at Madison Square Garden, NYC
• Mar 29 Wayne Gretzky breaks own NHL season record with 126th assist
• Mar 30 139th Grand National: Welsh jockey Hywel Davies aboard 11-year old 50/1 outsider Last Suspect wins by 1½ lengths from Mr. Snugfit
• Mar 30 Ireland beats England, 13-10 at Lansdowne Road, Dublin to clinch its 10th outright Five Nations Rugby Championship and 6th triple Crown
• Mar 31 4th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Old Dominion beats Georgia, 70-65; Monarchs' Tracy Claxton, MOP
• Mar 31 PGA Tournament Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: Calvin Peete shoots final round 66 to win by 3 strokes from D. A. Weibring; Peete only player to break par in all 4 rounds
• Apr 1 47th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Villanova beats Georgetown, 66-64; Wildcats lowest-seeded team (8th) to win tournament
• Apr 2 Edmonton center Wayne Gretzky sets an NHL record with his 34th career hat trick as the Oilers beat the Kings 6-4 in Los Angeles

• Apr 2 The NCAA Rules Committee adopts a 45-second shot clock for men’s basketball to begin in the 1986 season in an effort to eliminate stalling
• Apr 4 Tulane University cancels its basketball season amidst scandal
• Apr 7 Nabisco Dinah Shore Women's Golf, Mission Hills CC: Alice Miller shoots a final round 67 (−5) to win her only major title, 3 strokes ahead of Jan Stephenson of Australia

• Apr 13 "TASS" denounces US boycott of Moscow Olympics
• Apr 13 Katrin Dörre wins 1st female World Cup marathon (2:33:30)

• Apr 14 Ahmed Salah wins 1st World Cup marathon (2:08:09)
• Apr 14 Bob Carpenter is unsuccessful on Washington Capitals 1st playoff penalty shot
• Apr 15 89th Boston Marathon: Englishman Geoff Smith repeats as men's champion in 2:14:05; American Lisa Larsen Weidenbach takes women's title in 2:34:06
• Apr 20 Carlos Lopes runs world record marathon (2:07:12)

• Apr 23 Brooklyn College soccer team wins Nepal's invitational
• Apr 25 For 2nd time, Wayne Gretzky, scores 7 points in a Cup game (3 goals, 4 assists)

• Apr 29 Tony Tubbs beats defending champion Greg Page by unanimous decision in 15 rounds at Memorial Auditorium, Buffalo for WBA heavyweight boxing title

• Apr 30 NFL Draft: Virginia Tech defensive end Bruce Smith first pick by Buffalo Bills

• May 11 56 die and at least 265 are injured at Bradford City football ground in the worst fire in English football history

• May 13 Carlton Fisk becomes 5th catcher to steal 100 bases
• May 15 Everton of England wins 25th European Cup Winner's Cup against Rapid Wien of Austria 3-1 in Rotterdam

• May 16 NHL Clarence Campbell Conference Final: Edmonton Oilers beat Chicago Black Hawks, 4 games to 2
• May 16 NHL Prince of Wales Conference Final: Philadelphia Flyers beat Quebec Nordiques, 4 games to 2

• May 20 Indians-Brewers game at Cleveland Stadium is 1st rain-out of 1985, ends record string of 458 ML games since Opening Day without a rain-out
• May 20 Larry Holmes beats Carl Williams in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
• May 22 Pete Rose 2,108th run passes Hank Aaron as NL run scoring leader

• May 29 29th European Cup: Juventus beats Liverpool 1-0 at Brussels
• May 29 Amputee Steve Fonyo completes cross-Canada marathon at Victoria, British Columbia, after 14 months
• May 30 Stanley Cup Final, Northlands Coliseum, Edmonton, AL: Edmonton Oilers take back-to-back titles; beat Philadelphia Flyers, 8-3 for a 4-1 series victory; Wayne Gretzky and Jari Kurri each post a goal and 3 assists
• May 31 New Orleans Saints are sold for $70,204,000

• Jun 3 Brewers draft B J Surhoff #1
• Jun 5 Steve Cauthen wins aboard Slip Anchor at Epsom Downs to become the only jockey to win both the Kentucky Derby (1978) and The Derby
• Jun 8 117th Belmont: Eddie Maple aboard Creme Fraiche wins in 2:27

• Jun 16 US Open Men's Golf, Oakland Hills CC: 1978 champion Andy North wins by 1 stroke ahead of runners-up Dave Barr, T C Chen and Denis Watson
• Jun 16 Willie Banks of USA sets triple jump record (58 feet 11 inches) in Indianapolis

• Jun 23 Laffit Pincay Jr becomes 2nd jockey to win $100 million

• Jun 30 US Senior Open Men's Golf, Edgewood Tahore GC: Miller Barber wins by 4 strokes from Roberto De Vincenzo for back-to-back Senior Open titles
• Jul 6 Mom's Command wins the Coaching Club American Oaks at Belmont to clinch American thoroughbred racing's Triple Tiara for fillies
• Jul 6 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Martina Navratilova beats Chris Evert 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 for her 6th Wimbledon singles title

• Jul 8 Marge Schott becomes CEO of Cincinnati Red

• Jul 14 US Open Women's Golf, Baltusrol GC: Kathy Baker (later Guadagnino) wins her first LPGA Tour event and only major title, 3 strokes ahead of runner-up Judy Clark (later Dickinson)
• Jul 16 56th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-1 at Humphrey Metrodome, Minn
• Jul 16 All star MVP: LaMarr Hoyt (San Diego Padres)

• Jul 27 Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway becomes first woman to run 10,000m in under 31 minutes; takes world record down to 30:59.42 in Oslo, Norway

• Jul 28 Lou Brock, Enos Slaughter, A Vaughan, & Hoyt Wilhelm are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York
• Aug 1 St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Vince Coleman steals 2 bases in 1st inning of 9-8 loss v Cubs to set a NL rookie record 74

• Aug 4 Scott Verplank beats Jim Thorpe in Western Open playoff, first amateur to win a PGA Tour event since Gene Littler 1954
• Aug 4 Tom Seaver of Chicago White Sox becomes 17th pitcher to win 300 MLB career games, beating New York, 4-1; 54,032 at Yankee Stadium
• Aug 6 MLB Players' Association stages a midseason baseball strike (lasts 1 day)
• Aug 8 Baseball's new agreement permits 2 new NL teams in 1993

• Aug 10 Uno Lindstron of Sweden juggles a soccer ball 13.11 miles

• Aug 11 Rudolf Povarnitsin of USSR sets new high jump world record (7'10"12)
• Aug 12 Baltimore Orioles W Gross & L Sheets are 6th to hit consecutive pinch HRs

• Aug 20 Met Dwight Gooden strikes out 16 on way to his 13th consecutive win
• Aug 22 30th Walker Cup: US wins 13-11
• Aug 23 Paul Hornung awarded $1,160,000 by a Louisville court against NCAA who barred him as a college football analyst for betting on games
• Aug 25 Met Dwight Gooden becomes youngest pitcher to win 20 games (20y 9m 9d)

• Aug 29 NY Yank Don Baylor is hit by a pitch for a record 190th time
• Aug 31 Ángel Cordero Jr. becomes 3rd jockey to ride horses earning over $100m
• Sep 1 Bill Elliott claims a $1 million bonus for winning 3 of the 4 crown jewel races on the NASCAR schedule: the Daytona 500, Winston 500 and Southern 500
• Sep 1 Dutch cyclist Joop Zoetemelk becomes the oldest road race elite world champion at 38 years, 8 months, 29 days; beats Greg Lamonde & Marino Argentin in Giavera del Montello
• Sep 3 England cricket swing bowler Richard Ellison with 5 for 76 helps dismiss Australia for 129 in 6th Test win at the Oval; England regains Ashes 3-1

• Sep 4 NY Mets catcher Gary Carter's 2 HRs in a 9-2 win in San Diego ties MLB record of 5 HRs in 2 games
• Sep 4 Russian Igor Paklin sets new high jump world record at 2.41m in Kobe, Japan

• Sep 8 Pete Rose ties Ty Cobb with 4,191 hits

• Sep 11 Pete Rose of Cincinnati Reds gets career hit 4,192 off Eric Show of San Diego Padres, eclipsing Ty Cobb's record
• Sep 11 Sri Lanka score their 1st Test Cricket victory, by 149 runs v India
• Sep 15 MLB New York Yankees trade 25-year-old pitching prospect Jim Deshaies to Houston Astros for 40-year-old pitcher Joe Niekro
• Sep 15 Ryder Cup Golf, The Belfry: Europe beats US, 16½-11½; first US loss since 1957; Sam Torrance clinches for Europe beating Andy North, 1 up
• Sep 20 Curtis Strong is convicted for selling cocaine to pro baseball players
• Sep 21 Michael Spinks beats Larry Holmes in 15 to become Heavyweight Boxing Champion
• Sep 22 Billy Martin's right arm is broken by pitcher Ed Whitson
• Sep 22 St Louis Cardinals set an unusual streak record by winning 9 of 10 games, each pitched by a different man

• Sep 29 Houston QB Warren Moon sacked NFL tying record 12 times (by Cowboys)
• Oct 2 A Mayor Richard Caliguiri led coalition of public and private groups committed to keeping the struggling Pittsburgh Pirates in town for at least 5 years reach agreement to buy the baseball team for $22 million
• Oct 2 Detroit 1st baseman Darrell Evans hits home run #40 in Tigers' 4-2 win over Toronto Blue Jays; first to record 40 x HRs in a MLB season in both Leagues
• Oct 4 Henry G Perry completes 157 day, 14,021 mile bicycle tour of Australia

• Oct 7 Lynette Woodward chosen as 1st woman in Harlem Globetrotters
• Oct 13 During NLCS, Cards rookie Vince Coleman is injured stretching before game as his left leg is caught in Busch Stadium's automated tarpaulin

• Oct 16 KC Royals & St Louis Cardinals win their league championships

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