Timberwolves First NBA Regular Season Game

While NFL highlights were shown on television in Great Britain starting in 1982, the game was the first chance fans of the league had to see the sport played on British soil.  

Mays’ other career milestones include being named National League Rookie of the Year in 1951 and winning 12 Rawlings Gold Glove Awards as an outfielder — tied for most all-time with the Pittsburgh Pirates’ Roberto Clemente.  

Márta Károlyi, the U.S. team coordinator, questioned the age of some of China’s athletes, while the media reported online records showing two of the Chinese gymnasts were younger than the 16-year-old age requirement necessary to compete. 

Major League Baseball suspended New York Yankees All-Star infielder Alex Rodriguez for 211 games on Aug. 5, 2013, citing his “use and possession of numerous forms of prohibited, performance-enhancing substances” over many years as the reason. 

True or false: The Houston Oilers became the first football team to play on artificial turf 

All grand slams were recorded in the final four innings of the game, bringing the Yankees from a six-run deficit to a lead the A’s couldn’t overcome. 

The 23-year-old athlete out of Northeast Louisiana State College — now known as University of Louisiana Monroe — completed his record-breaking vault using a fiberglass pole, while most other vaulters were still using wooden poles. 

Prior to joining Nashville, Trotz played junior hockey in the Western Hockey League. 

True or false: 40 cars race in the Indianapolis 500 

True or false: Each colour of the Olympic rings represents a particular continent 

Can you name all 5 events in the Modern Olympic Pentathon? 

Lewis got halfway there on Aug. 6, 1984, by winning gold in the men’s long jump event.