Events in Sports History in 1986

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• Jan 1 15th Fiesta Bowl: #5 Michigan beats #7 Nebraska, 27-23
• Jan 1 52nd Orange Bowl: #3 Oklahoma beats #1 Penn State, 25-10
• Jan 1 52nd Sugar Bowl: #8 Tennessee beats #2 Miami, 35-7

• Jan 1 72nd Rose Bowl: #13 UCLA beats #4 Iowa, 45-28; Iowa's All-American running back, Ronnie Harmon, fumbles the ball 4 times in his last game.

• Jan 6 Last day in Test cricket for Bob Holland

• Jan 9 NY Islanders repeat their greatest shutout margin (9-0) vs Pittsburgh Penguins

• Jan 12 AFC Championship, Miami Orange Bowl: New England Patriots beat Miami Dolphins, 31-14
• Jan 12 Chicago Blackhawk centre Denis Savard scores at 4 seconds of 3rd period
• Jan 12 NFC Championship, Soldier Field, Chicago: Chicago Bears beat Los Angeles Rams, 24-0

• Jan 17 Tim Witherspoon beats defending champion Tony Tubbs by majority decision in 15 rounds at The Omni, Atlanta for WBA heavyweight boxing title
• Jan 21 100 participate in Nude Olympics race in 38°F (3°C), Indiana

• Jan 24 NHL New York Islanders Mike Bossy scores his 1,000th point

• Jan 26 Hein Vergeer becomes European skating champion
• Jan 26 Super Bowl XX, Louisiana Superdome, New Orleans, Louisiana: Chicago Bears beat New England Patriots, 46-10; MVP: Richard Dent, Chicago, DE
• Feb 2 NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: NFC beats AFC, 28-24; MVP: Phil Simms, NY Giants, QB

• Feb 8 5' 7" Spud Webb of Atlanta Hawks wins NBA Slam Dunk Competition

• Feb 9 Marvin Johnson stops Leslie Stewart in 7 rounds in Indianapolis to win WBA light heavyweight boxing title; record 3rd time he regains a version of light heavyweight crown
• Feb 9 West German team swims world record 4x200 m freestyle (7:05.17)
• Feb 11 Australia beat India 2-0 to win cricket's World Series Cup, David Boon scores the most runs in the series (418)

• Feb 15 44,180 largest NBA crowd to date-Philadelphia at Detroit

• Feb 16 Dutch speed skater Hein Vergeer becomes World Allround champion for the second time

• Feb 18 San Antonio guard Alvin Robertson scores NBA's 2nd quadruple double-20 points, 11 rebounds, 10 assists & 10 steals in 120-114 win over Phoenix Suns

• Feb 28 Peter Uberroth suspended 7 baseball players for 1 year, after they admitted in Curtis Strong's trial in September, they used drugs

• Mar 2 Qualifier Kenny Knox is the last player to score in the 80’s (R3 80) and still win a PGA Tour event, the Honda Classic at TPC Eagle Trace; total 287 is highest winning score in PGA tournament history

• Mar 8 27th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Alabama, 83-72
• Mar 8 7th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: St. John's beats Syracuse, 70-69

• Mar 9 33rd ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: Duke beats Georgia Tech, 68-67

• Mar 11 New York Islanders Mike Bossy, 1st NHLer to score 50 goals in 9 straight seasons
• Mar 11 NFL adopts instant replay rule
• Mar 15 Scotland (10-9 v Ireland) and France (29-10 v England) win their final round matches to share the Five Nations Rugby Championship with 3-1 records
• Mar 18 Exciting draw in final gives NSW the Sheffield Shield over Queensland
• Mar 21 Pittsburgh Associates buy Pittsburgh Pirates for $218 million
• Mar 22 HBO launches boxing's heavyweight-title-unification-tournament
• Mar 22 Ice Pairs World Championship at Geneva won by Ekaterina Gordeeva & Sergei Grinkov (USSR)

• Mar 23 First of 2 WTA Tour Championships of the year; change of tennis schedule; Martina Navratilova wins 4th straight and 7th overall title 6–2, 6–0, 3–6, 6–1 against Hana Mandlíková in NYC

• Mar 25 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Brian Boitano (USA)
• Mar 30 5th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Texas beats USC, 97-81; Longhorns' Clarissa Davis MOP award; complete first undefeated season (34-0)
• Mar 30 PGA Tournament Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: John Mahaffey wins by 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Larry Mize
• Mar 31 48th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Louisville beats Duke, 72-69; first tournament to use a shot clock (initially set at 45 seconds)
• Apr 1 Ranji Trophy Men's Cricket, Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi: Delhi beats Haryana by innings & 141; Manoj Prabhakar 113, Kirti Azad 107, Mohinder Amarnath 194, Ajay Sharma 110
• Apr 2 NCAA Basketball Rules Committee votes to adopt the 3-point shot beginning the 1986-87 season; sets college distance at 19 feet, 9 inches, compared to 21 feet in the NBA
• Apr 2 Paul Coffey of the Edmonton Oilers scores his 47th and 48th goals of the season in an 8-4 win over the Vancouver Canucks to break Bobby Orr's NHL record for most goals by a defenseman
• Apr 4 Wayne Gretzky sets NHL record with 213th point of season
• Apr 5 140th Grand National: Richard Dunwoody aboard 9-year-old 15/2 second favourite West Tip wins by 2 lengths from Young Driver

• Apr 6 Soccer ball juggled non-stop for 14:14 hrs

• Apr 13 Boston Celtics end season with a 40-1 home win record
• Apr 13 Spanish Grand Prix decided by 0.014 of a second

• Apr 21 Bob Hering sets Formula One power boat record (165.338 mph, Ariz)

• May 3 Cubs 3rd baseman Ron Cey hits his 300th & 301st HR

• May 7 30th European Cup: Steaua Bucuresti beats Barcelona (0-0, 2-0 on penalties) at Seville
• May 7 Phillies outfielder Garry Maddox, retires
• May 9 NHL Prince of Wales Conference Final: Montreal Canadians beat New York Rangers, 4 games to 1
• May 14 NHL Clarence Campbell Conference Final: Calgary Flames beat St. Louis Blues, 4 games to 3

• May 17 111th Preakness: Alex Solis aboard Snow Chief wins in 1:54.8
• May 18 David Goch finishes swimming 55,682 miles in a 25-yd pool
• May 24 Stanley Cup Final, Saddledome, Calgary, AL: Montreal Canadiens beat Calgary Flames, 4-3 for 4-1 series victory

• May 28 White Sox Joe Cowley sets record striking out 1st 7 Rangers he faces

• May 30 Indianapolis 500: Bobby Rahal becomes first driver in race history to complete the 500 miles (800 km) in less than 3 hours; average speed 170.722 mph (274.750 km/h)
• Jun 1 LPGA Championship Women's Golf, Jack Nicklaus GC: Pat Bradley birdies final hole to win by 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Patty Sheehan

• Jun 6 Jurgen Schull sets world discus record (74.07 m)
• Jun 7 118th Belmont: Chris McCarron aboard Danzig Connect wins in 2:29.8

• Jun 7 Pirates draft 3rd baseman Jeff King #1
• Jun 8 40th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Hous Rockets, 4 games to 2
• Jun 8 French Open Men's Tennis: Czech star Ivan Lendl wins 3rd career Grand Slam title; beats Mikael Pernfors of Sweden 6-3, 6-2, 6-4
• Jun 8 Longest 9 inning AL game (4h16m), Baltimore Orioles beat Yankees 18-9

• Jun 10 A. Bartlett Giamatti succeeds Chub Feeney as President of baseball's National League

• Jun 21 1985 Heisman Trophy winner Bo Jackson, signs 3-year contract to play baseball with the Kansas City Royals
• Jun 21 Heike Drechsler of East Germany long jumps 7.45 m (women's record)

• Jun 23 Pedro Morales swims world record 100m butterfly (52.84)

• Jun 27 American tennis player Anne White shocks Wimbledon by wearing a white, one-piece, lycra body suit in 1st round match against Pam Shriver; wears regular outfit after rain break
• Jun 27 Robby Thompson (SF Giants) sets record, caught stealing 4 times in 1 game
• Jun 29 Boston Red Sox trade for Tom Seaver
• Jun 29 FIFA World Cup Final, Estadio Azteca, Mexico City: Argentina beats West Germany, 3-2 in front of 114,600

• Jun 29 US Senior Open Men's Golf, Scioto CC: Dale Douglass wins by 1 stroke ahead of Gary Player for his lone Champions Tour major title
• Jul 2 Boston Red Sox pitcher Roger Clemens (14-0) suffers his 1st loss (4-2 v Toronto), one win short of AL record for consecutive wins to start season
• Jul 4 England cricket captain Mike Gatting smashes 183 not out in the drawn 3rd Test vs India at Birmingham
• Jul 5 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Martina Navratilova beats Hana Mandlíková 7-6, 6-3 for her 7th Wimbledon singles title

• Jul 6 Atlanta infielder Bob Horner becomes 11th player to hit 4 home runs in a MLB game during Braves 11-8 loss v Montreal

• Jul 9 Padres trade pitcher Tim Stoddard to Yankees for pitcher Ed Whitson
• Jul 11 Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway runs 10,000m in world record 30:13.74

• Jul 15 57th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-2 at Astrodome, Houston, Texas
• Jul 15 All star MVP: Roger Clemens (Boston Red Sox)
• Jul 18 MLB Kansas City Royals announce that manager Dick Howser, 50, has a brain tumor

• Jul 27 24th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Czechoslovakia in Prague Czech (3-0)

• Jul 27 Canadian Open Women's Golf (du Maurier Classic), Board of Trade CC: Pat Bradley wins in a playoff with Ayako Okamoto of Japan
• Jul 29 NY jury rules NFL violated antitrust laws, awards USFL $1 in damages
• Aug 1 Twins pitcher Bert Blyleven becomes 10th to reach 3,000 MLB strikeout milestone, 2-hits A's, 10-1
• Aug 2 American athlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee beats her own world heptathlon record by 13 points (7,161) in Houston
• Aug 2 Curtis Cup Women's Golf, Prairie Dunes CC: Great Britain & Ireland beats the US 13-5, the visitors first win on American soil
• Aug 2 Lee Elder fires a record 11-under par 61 on his way to winning the Senior PGA Merrill Lynch/Golf Digest Commemorative at Sleepy Hollow CC; mark stands for 11 years
• Aug 3 First NFL 'American Bowl' exhibition game at London's Wembley Stadium, Chicago Bears beat Dallas Cowboys 17-6
• Aug 3 Willie McCovey, Bobby Doerr and Ernie Lombardi are inducted in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY
• Aug 4 After winning only token damages in antitrust lawsuit against the NFL, USFL owners vote to suspend operations for 1986 season; folded before 4th season
• Aug 5 Giants left-handed pitcher Steve Carlton becomes 2nd to reach 4,000 strikeout milestone when he gets center-fielder Eric Davis in 11-5 loss v Reds
• Aug 5 Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway sets 5,000m world record (14:37.33) in Stockholm, Sweden
• Aug 6 Baltimore's Jim Dwyer & Larry Sheets, and Rangers Toby Harrah hit MLB record 3 grand slams in Texas' 13-11 win
• Aug 7 Daniel Buettner, Bret Anderson, Martin Engel and Anne Knabe begin cycling journey of 15,266 miles from Prudhoe Bay Alaska to Argentina

• Aug 11 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Inverness Club: Bob Tway holes a famous bunker shot on the 18th to beat Australian Greg Norman by 2 stokes
• Aug 12 Don Baylor gets hits by a pitch for a record 25th time in a season
• Aug 12 Red Sox pitcher Tim Lollar gets a pinch-hit single
• Aug 14 Phillies & Pirates play a 6 game series in 4 days
• Aug 17 Red Sox trade shortstop Rey Quinones & pitcher Mike Trujillo to Mariners for shortstop Spike Owen & outfielder Dave Henderson
• Aug 18 Jim Kelly signs with NFL Buffalo Bills ($75 million for 5 years)

• Aug 21 Red Sox Spike Owens scores 6 runs in a 24-5 rout of Cleveland Indians
• Aug 21 With 2 outs in 6th inning, Red Sox score 11 runs

• Aug 30 Gelindo Bordin wins Stuttgart marathon (2:10:54)
• Aug 30 Yuriy Sedykh of the Soviet Union sets new world hammer throw record 86.74m (284 ft 6 in) in Stuttgart, Germany
• Sep 3 Houston Astros & Chicago Cubs use MLB record 53 players, including 17 pitchers in a 2-day 18 inning marathon; Astros win 8-7
• Sep 6 Michael Spinks TKOs Steffen Tangstad in 4 for heavyweight boxing title
• Sep 6 US Open Women's Tennis: Martina Navratilova wins her 3rd US singles title; beats Czech star Helena Suková 6-3, 6-2
• Sep 7 Cleveland Browns become 1st team in NFL history to have a play reviewed by instant replay, Chicago 41, Browns 31

• Sep 7 US Open Men's Tennis: In an all-Czech final Ivan Lendl retains his title; beats Miloslav Mečíř 6-4, 6-2, 6-0
• Sep 12 MLB Minnesota Twins fire manager Ray Miller and replace him with coach Tom Kelly
• Sep 13 Bert Blyleven gives up a record 44 HRs in a season
• Sep 14 Bo Jackson's 1st HR-a 475-foot blast (longest at Royal Stadium)

• Sep 14 Saskatchewan & Hamilton play 1st CFL regular-season overtime game
• Sep 18 David Boon's 3rd Test cricket century, 122 v India at Madras
• Sep 19 Australian cricketer Dean Jones scores 210 v India at Madras
• Sep 19 Chicago White Sox Joe Crowley no-hits California Angels, 7-1
• Sep 21 New Orleans Saints Mel Gray returns kickoff 101 yards for a touchdown
• Sep 21 NY Jets beat Miami Dolphins 51-45 in OT; record 884 passing yards
• Sep 21 SD Padre Jimmy Jones pitches 1-hitter in his major league debut
• Sep 22 India v Australia Test Cricket at Madras finishes in a tie

• Sep 25 Houston Astro Mike Scott no-hits SF Giants, 2-0
• Sep 28 Cleveland Browns' Gerald McNeil sets the team record for the longest punt return with an 84-yard run (and TD), Browns 24, Detroit 21
• Sep 28 Record 23,000 start in a marathon (Mexico City)

• Sep 29 Indians Jay Bell is 10th to hit a HR on 1st major league pitch he sees
• Sep 29 Mary Lou Retton retires as a gymnast
• Oct 2 Astros starter Mike Scott finishes MLB regular season with 306 strikeouts with 8 in a 2-1 win in San Francisco; 3rd NL pitcher to reach 300 in a season

• Oct 3 Baltimore loses 6-3 to Detroit Tigers, assuring Orioles of club's first ever last-place finish in AL East standings

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