Events in Sports History in 1982

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• Jan 1 11th Fiesta Bowl: #7 Penn State beats #8 Southern California, 26-10
• Jan 1 48th Orange Bowl: #1 Clemson beats #4 Nebraska, 22-15
• Jan 1 48th Sugar Bowl: #10 Pittsburgh beats #2 Georgia, 24-20

• Jan 1 68th Rose Bowl: #12 Washington beats #13 Iowa, 28-0
• Jan 2 "The Epic in Miami", in 85 degree heat (Fahrenheit), the San Diego Chargers defeat the Miami Dolphins 41-38 in overtime in the AFC Divisional Playoff Game, a game that set numerous playoff scoring records

• Jan 2 New York Islanders beat Philadelphia Flyers, 3-1 at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum to start 23 NHL game undefeated home streak (21-0-2), 14 straight wins
• Jan 3 Australian Open Men's Tennis: South African Johan Kriek wins first career Grand Slam title; beats American Steve Denton 6-2, 7-6, 6-7, 6-4

• Jan 10 AFC Championship, Riverfront Stadium, Cincinnati: Cincinnati Bengals beat San Diego Chargers, 27-7 in the "Freezer Bowl"

• Jan 10 Petra Schneider swims world record 1500 m freestyle (15:43.31)

• Jan 20 Future Hockey Hall of Fame center Darryl Sittler is traded by the Toronto Maple Leafs to the Philadelphia Flyers in exchange for Rich Costello, a 2nd round draft pick and future considerations
• Jan 21 NY Islanders begin then NHL record 15 game winning streak with a 6-1 win over Pittsburgh Penguins at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
• Jan 24 Super Bowl XVI, Pontiac Silverdome, Detroit, MI: San Francisco 49ers beat Cincinnati Bengals, 26-21; MVP: Joe Montana, SF, QB
• Jan 26 In a 9-2 NHL win over Pittsburgh Penguins, the NY Islanders score 4 goals within 1:38, 5 within 2:37 in a 6 goal 1st period
• Jan 27 Los Angeles Kings set an NHL record with their 6th consecutive tied game, a 4-4 deadlock against the visiting Philadelphia Flyers

• Jan 27 West Indies beat Australia 3-1 to win cricket's World Series Cup
• Jan 29 Old Dominion ends Louisiana Tech's women's basketball record 54-game winning streak
• Jan 29 Wayne Garland, baseball 1st millionaire free agent, waived by Indians

• Jan 31 NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: AFC beats NFC, 16-13; MVPs: Co-MVPs: Kellen Winslow, San Diego Chargers, TE; Lee Roy Selmon, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, DE

• Feb 8 Los Angeles Dodgers trade 2B Davey Lopes to Oakland A's, breaking up MLB's longest-playing infield (Garvey-Lopes-Russell-Cey) after 8 1/2 seasons

• Feb 13 Islander's Bryan Trottier scores 5 goals against Flyers

• Feb 15 Dan Issel (NBA-Nuggets), begins streak of 63 consecutive free throw
• Feb 17 Commencement of Sri Lanka's 1st Test Cricket match, v England
• Feb 20 NY Islanders win then NHL record 15th straight game by beating Colorado Rockies, 3-2 at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
• Feb 24 Boston Celtics begin an 18 NBA game winning streak
• Feb 24 Wayne Gretzky scores NHL-record 78th goal of season en route to 92

• Feb 27 Dan Issel (NBA-Nuggets), hits on 63rd consecutive free throw

• Mar 6 23rd SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Alabama beats Kentucky, 48-46
• Mar 6 NBA highest scoring game: San Antonio beat Milwaukee 171-166 (3 OT)
• Mar 7 29th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: North Carolina beats Virginia, 47-45
• Mar 7 NCAA Tournament Selection televised live for 1st time
• Mar 10 Saleem Malik scores 100 in 2nd inning of Test Cricket debut (v SL)
• Mar 10 Travis Jackson and former commissioner Happy Chandler elected to baseball's Hall of Fame
• Mar 11 Detroit Pistons play the Chicago Bulls, with final score of Detroit 152 to Chicago 144 and Detroit having 20 blocked shots

• Mar 13 Men's Figure Skating Champions in Copenhagen won by Scott Hamilton (USA)
• Mar 13 Worlds Ladies' Figure Skating Champs in Copenhagen won by Elaine Zayak (USA) who lands 6 triple jumps
• Mar 15 Sidath Wettimuny scores Sri Lanka's first Test Cricket century (157) in 2nd Test v Pakistan in Faisalabad
• Mar 20 France beats Ireland, 22-9 at the Parc des Princes, Paris but the Irish take the Five Nations Rugby Championship with a 3-1 record and also their 5th Triple Crown
• Mar 21 Jerry Pate celebrates golf win by jumping into the water hazard
• Mar 21 PGA Tournament Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: Jerry Pate shoots a final round 67 to win by 2 strokes over runners-up Scott Simpson and Brad Bryant
• Mar 23 NHL New York Islanders Mike Bossy's 20th career hat trick, in his 5th career 4-goal game, an 8-1 win over visiting Washington Capitols
• Mar 25 Wayne Gretzky becomes 1st NHL to score 200 points in a season
• Mar 27 Imran takes 14-116 for cricket match v Sri Lanka at Lahore
• Mar 28 1st NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Louisiana Tech beats Cheney, 76-62; Lady Techsters' forward Janice Lawrence tournament MOP
• Mar 28 Last AIAW Women's Basketball Championship, Rutgers beat Texas 83-77 in Philadelphia

• Mar 31 NBA and Players Association reach a 4-year agreement that includes a 53% revenue-sharing plan in return for minimum & maximum payrolls; first of its kind in team sports

• Apr 3 136th Grand National: 48-year-old Dick Saunders wins aboard 7/1 favourite Grittar; oldest jockey to win the event
• Apr 3 Buffalo Sabre Gil Perrault scores his 1,000th NHL point

• Apr 5 43-year-old St. Louis reliever Jim Kaat pitches 1 inning for the Cardinals in a season-opening, 14-3 rout of Houston; sets a MLB record for pitchers by playing in his 24th consecutive season
• Apr 6 Largest crowd ever to see a baseball game in Minnesota 52,279
• Apr 8 Tracy Caulkins wins her 36th US swimming title aged 19
• Apr 9 LA Lakers block 21 Denver shots setting NBA regulation game record
• Apr 10 LA Kings losing 5-0 to Edmonton in 3rd period, win in OT 6-5
• Apr 11 46th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Craig Stadler wins his only major title by defeating Dan Pohl on the 1st hole of a sudden-death playoff
• Apr 18 Atlanta Braves win record 11th straight opening game (beat Astros)

• Apr 19 Rosie Ruiz, marathon race cheater, arrested for forgery
• Apr 20 Atlanta Braves become 1st team to win 1st 12 games of the season
• Apr 21 Atlanta Braves win their 13th straight game
• Apr 22 Atlanta Braves lose after winning 1st 13 games of season
• Apr 24 Cards win 12th game in a row; 7-4 over Phillies
• Apr 25 Yanks fire manager Bob Lemon & replaces him with Gene Michael
• Apr 26 Gene Michael becomes NY Yankee manager for 2nd time
• Apr 27 NFL Draft: University of Texas defensive end Kenneth Sims first pick by New England Patriots
• Apr 30 Atlanta Braves win record 12th straight from beginning of season
• May 1 108th Kentucky Derby: Ed Delahoussaye wins aboard Gato Del Sol, the first of consecutive Derby victories (1983 Sunny's Halo)
• May 4 NHL Prince of Wales Conference Final: New York Islanders beat Quebec Nordiques, 4 games to 0
• May 4 Twins rookie outfielder Jim Eisenreich, who suffers from Tourette's Syndrome, removes himself, due to taunts from Red Sox bleacher fans
• May 6 NHL Clarence Campbell Conference Final: Vancouver Canucks beat Chicago Black Hawks, 4 games to 1
• May 6 Seattle Mariners Gaylord Perry becomes 15th pitcher to win 300 games
• May 7 Californian federal jury rules NFL violates antitrust laws in preventing Oakland Raiders move to Los Angeles Coliseum
• May 12 FC Barcelona of Spain win 22nd European Cup Winner's Cup against Standard Liège of Belgium 2-1 in Barcelona
• May 13 Chicago Cubs win their 8,000th (beat Astros)
• May 15 107th Preakness: Jack Kaenel aboard Aloma's Ruler wins in 1:55.4
• May 16 Stanley Cup Final, Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver, BC: 3-peat for NY Islanders; sweep Vancouver Canucks in 4 games with a 3-1 Game 4 win
• May 18 Tigers outfielder Larry Herndon is 14th to hit 4 consecutive HRs

• May 26 26th European Cup: Aston Villa beats Bayern Munich 1-0 at Rotterdam
• May 27 New owners headed by John McMullen buy NHL's Colorado Rockies and move the team to the New Jersey Meadowlands under the new name NJ Devils
• May 30 Indianapolis 500: Gordon Johncock beats Rick Mears by 0.16 seconds; closest finish in Indy 500 history to that point

• Jun 5 French Open Women's Tennis: Martina Navratilova beats American teenager Andrea Jaeger 7-6, 6-1 for her first French singles crown

• Jun 7 Steve Garvey plays in his 1,000th consecutive game & goes 0-for-4
• Jun 8 36th NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat Philadelphia 76ers, 4 games to 2

• Jun 22 MLB Philadelphia Phillies infielder Pete Rose gets his 3,772nd career hit, moves past Hank Aaron into 2nd place
• Jun 30 New Jersey NHL franchise officially named Devils by fan balloting; legend of the Jersey Devil, a creature that allegedly inhabited the Pine Barrens of South Jersey

• Jul 1 PEC Zwolle '82 soccer club renamed when purchased by Dutch businessman Marten Eibrink
• Jul 3 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Martina Navratilova beats Chris Evert 6-1, 3-6, 6-2 for the first of 6-straight Wimbledon singles titles

• Jul 7 English athlete David Moorcroft beats Kenyan Henry Rono's 5000m world record by nearly 5 seconds, 13:00.41 in Oslo, Norway

• Jul 11 FIFA World Cup Final, Santiago Bernabéu, Madrid, Spain: Italy beats West Germany, 3-1 in front of 90,000
• Jul 11 US Senior Open Men's Golf, Portland GC: Miller Barber wins by 4 strokes from Dan Sykes & Gene Littler; his first of 3 Senior Open titles
• Jul 13 53rd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-1 at Olympic Stadium, Montreal
• Jul 13 All star MVP: Dave Conception (Cincinnati Reds)
• Jul 18 British Open Men's Golf, Royal Troon: American Tom Watson wins his 4th Open Championship, 1 stroke clear of Peter Oosterhuis and Nick Price

• Jul 25 20th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Germany in Santa Clara USA (3-0)

• Jul 25 US Open Women's Golf, Del Paso CC: Janet Anderson shoots final round 68 (−4) to claim her only LPGA Tour win, 6 strokes ahead of Beth Daniel, Donna White, JoAnne Carner and Sandra Haynie
• Jul 30 Atlanta Braves remove Chief Noc-A-Homa to make room for more seats
• Aug 1 After the first 13 runnings of the midsummer classic, Darryl Waltrip becomes the first driver the win the Talladega 500 twice

• Aug 2 Oakland outfielder Rickey Henderson steals his 100th MLB base of the season in 6-5 win v Seattle, first to steal 100 twice in modern era
• Aug 3 Pitching coach Clyde King becomes NY Yankees 3rd manager of the season replacing Gene Michaels after Yanks swept at home by Chicago White Sox
• Aug 4 Outfielder Joel Youngblood becomes only MLB player to get hits for 2 different teams in 2 different cities on the same day; singles for Mets in Chicago day game; traded, then singles for Expos in Philadelphia night game

• Aug 6 Curtis Cup Golf, Denver CC: United States beats Great Britain & Ireland 14½-3½
• Aug 8 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Southern Hills CC: Ray Floyd wins his second PGA C'ship by 3 shots from fellow American Lanny Wadkins
• Aug 14 Atlanta snaps an 11-game losing streak with a 6-5 win over Padres
• Aug 14 Pete Rose (Phillies) 12,365 at bat sets record (passes Aaron)
• Aug 17 LA Dodgers beat Chicago Cubs, 6-5, in 21 innings (game completed 8/18)
• Aug 18 Longest baseball game at Wrigley Field in Chicago IL, ends after 22 innings - before LA Dodgers beat Cubs 2-1 (game started Aug 17th)
• Aug 18 NYSE tops 100m shares traded for the 1st time, sets a new record of 132.69m shares traded
• Aug 18 Pete Rose sets record with his 13,941st plate appearance
• Aug 19 Renaldo Nehemiah of US sets record for 110 m hurdles, 12.93 sec
• Aug 20 Don Lever becomes first captain of NHL New Jersey Devils
• Aug 21 American MLB Milwaukee Brewers' relief pitcher Rollie Fingers becomes 1st pitcher to get save #300
• Aug 23 Seattle Mariner pitcher Gaylord Perry ejected for throwing a spitter
• Aug 24 KCs' John Wathan steals 31st en route to 36 base for catcher's record
• Aug 27 Rickey Henderson steals 119th base of season breaks Lou Brock's mark

• Sep 5 US Men's Amateur Golf Championship, The Country Club: Jay Sigel wins 8 & 7 over David Tolley

• Sep 12 US Open Men's Tennis: Jimmy Connors wins his 4th US title; beats Czech star Ivan Lendl 6-3, 6-2, 4-6, 6-4
• Sep 13 Joe Lefevre gets 6 hits in one baseball game

• Sep 14 Trevor Baxter sets skateboard high jump record of 5' 5.7"
• Sep 19 New Orleans Saints 1st road shutout victory beating Chicago Bears 10-0
• Sep 21 2,251 turn out to see Expos play NY Mets at Shea Stadium
• Sep 21 NFL players begin a 57 day strike
• Sep 22 Duleep Mendis completes twin cricket tons for Sri Lanka v India
• Sep 25 Keke Rosberg becomes the first Fin to win the Formula 1 World Drivers Championship when he finishes 5th in season ending Caesars Palace Grand Prix in Las Vegas; wins by 5 points from Didier Pironi
• Oct 3 Center fielder Robin Yount homers twice as Milwaukee whips Baltimore, 10-2 at Memorial Stadium to win the Brewers only AL East Championship
• Oct 5 First regular season NHL game is played in New Jersey (Newark; NJ Devils play a 3-3 tie against Pittsburgh Penguins at Brendan Byrne Arena; Don Lever scores first Devils' goal

• Oct 8 New Jersey Devils 1st NHL victory; beat New York Rangers 3-2 at Meadowlands
• Oct 10 MLB American League Championship: Milwaukee Brewers beat California Angels, 3 games to 2
• Oct 10 MLB National League Championship: St. Louis Cardinals beat Atlanta Braves, 3-0

• Oct 14 Islanders assessed 108 penalty minutes, Penguins 125 (233 total)
• Oct 14 NY Islanders greatest shutout margin (9-0) vs Pittsburgh Penguins
• Oct 17 Robin Yount is 1st to have 2 4-hit games in a World Series
• Oct 20 Baseball World Series: St. Louis Cardinals beat Milwaukee Brewers, 6-3 at Busch Stadium for 4 games to 3 series triumph; MVP: St. Louis catcher Darrell Porter
• Oct 20 Billy Martin fired as manager of Oakland A's
• Oct 20 During the UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem, 66 people are crushed to death in the Luzhniki disaster.

• Oct 24 13th NYC Marathon won by Alberto Salazar in 2:09:29

• Oct 25 David Hookes scores Cricket century in 34 balls 43 mins, SA v Victoria
• Oct 26 MLB Philadelphia Phillies Steve Carlton becomes 1st pitcher to win 4 Cy Young awards

• Nov 3 San Diego guard Randy Smith plays his 845th consecutive game in Clippers' 130-111 loss in Philadelphia; passes Johnny “Red” Kerr's NBA record; goes on to play in 906 straight games
• Nov 5 Cleveland Cavaliers lose 24th consecutive game (NBA record)
• Nov 9 Brewers' Robin Yount wins AL MVP unanimously

• Nov 12 Aaron Pryor scores a 14th round KO of Alexis Argüello in Miami to retain his WBA super lightweight boxing title in the first of 2 meetings between the Hall of Famers; The Ring’s 'Fight of the Decade'
• Nov 12 Zaheer Abbas gets his 100th 100 in Test Cricket for Pakistan v India, goes to 215

• Nov 18 South Korean boxer Duk Koo Kim dies from injuries sustained during a 14-round beating by Ray Mancini in Las Vegas; WBC shortens title bouts to 12 rounds; WBA and WBO follow in 1988, and IBF in 1989

• Nov 24 Orioles Cal Ripken is named AL Rookie of Year

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