1982 in sports - 1982 in sports See also: 1981 in sports, other events of 1982, 1983 in sports and the list of 'years in sports'. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Auto Racing 2 Baseball 3 Basketball 4 Boxing 5 Cycling 6 Figure Skating 7 Football (Soccer) 8 Football (American) 9 Canadian Football League 10 Golf 11 Thoroughbred Horse Racing 12 Harness Racing 13 Ice Hockey 14 Skiing 15 Tennis 16 General sporting events 17 Births 18 Deaths Auto Racing Stock car racing: Bobby Allison wins the Daytona 500 NASCAR Championship - Darrell Waltrip Indianapolis 500 - Gordon Johncock CART Racing - Rick Mears won the season championship Formula One Champion - Keke Rosberg of Finland 24 hours of Le Mans: won by the team of Jacky Ickx / Derek.
1982 - 1982 Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century Decades: 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s - 1980s - 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s 2030s Years: 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 - 1982 - 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 See also: 1982 in aviation 1982 in film 1982 in literature 1982 in music 1982 in sports 1982 in television Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Year in topic 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Nobel Prizes 6 Heads of state in 1982 Events January 6 - William Bonin convicted of being the "freeway killer". January 8 - AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions January 13 - Shortly after takeoff, an Air Florida Boeing 737 crashes into Washington, DC's 14th Street Bridge and falls into the.
1981 in sports - 1981 in sports See also: 1980 in sports, other events of 1981, 1982 in sports and the list of 'years in sports'. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Auto Racing 2 Baseball 3 Basketball 4 Boxing 5 Cycling 6 Figure Skating 7 Football (Soccer) 8 Football (American) 9 Canadian Football League 10 Golf 11 Thoroughbred Horse Racing 12 Harness Racing 13 Ice Hockey 14 Skiing 15 Tennis 16 General sporting events 17 Births 18 Deaths Auto Racing Stock car racing: Richard Petty wins the Daytona 500 NASCAR Championship - Darrell Waltrip Indianapolis 500 - Bobby Unser CART Racing - Rick Mears won the season championship Formula One Championship - Nelson Piquet of Brazil 24 hours of Le Mans: teammates Jacky Ickx / Derek Bell won, driving a Porsche.
1983 in sports - 1983 in sports See also: 1982 in sports, other events of 1983, 1984 in sports and the list of 'years in sports'. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Auto Racing 2 Baseball 3 Basketball 4 Boxing 5 Cycling 6 Figure Skating 7 Football (Soccer) 8 Football (American) 9 Canadian Football League 10 Golf 11 Thoroughbred Horse Racing 12 Harness Racing 13 Ice Hockey 14 Skiing 15 Tennis 16 General sporting events 17 Births 18 Deaths Auto Racing Stock car racing: Cale Yarborough wins the Daytona 500 NASCAR Championship - Bobby Allison Indianapolis 500 - Tom Sneva CART Racing - Al Unser won the season championship Formula One Championship - Nelson Piquet of Brazil 24 hours of Le Mans: the team of Vern Schuppan / Al Holbert / Hurley.
1950 in sports - 1950 in sports See also: 1949 in sports, other events of 1950, 1951 in sports and the list of 'years in sports'. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Auto Racing 2 Baseball 3 Basketball 4 Boxing 5 Cycling 6 Figure Skating 7 Football (Soccer) 8 Football (American) 9 Canadian Football League 10 Golf 11 Thoroughbred Horse Racing 12 Harness Racing 13 Ice Hockey 14 Tennis 15 General sporting events 16 Births 17 Deaths Auto Racing NASCAR Championship - Bill Rexford AAA Racing: Henry Banks won the series championship Johnnie Parsons won the Indianapolis 500 Formula One Champion: The first World Championship for drivers under the jurisdiction of the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) is contested. The first race of the World Championship series is the British Grand Prix.
BBC Sports Personality of the Year - BBC Sports Personality of the Year The BBC Sports Personality of the Year award has been given to one British sportsperson each year since 1954. The award is voted for by the public. The only people to win the award twice are the boxer Henry Cooper and the racing drivers Nigel Mansell and Damon Hill. 1954: Chris Chataway 1955: Gordon Pirie 1956: Jim Laker 1957: Dai Rees 1958: Ian Black 1959: John Surtees 1960: David Broome 1961: Stirling Moss 1962: Anita Lonsbrough 1963: Dorothy Hyman 1964: Mary Rand 1965: Tommy Simpson 1966: Bobby Moore 1967: Henry Cooper 1968: David Hemery 1969: Ann Jones 1970: Henry Cooper 1971: Princess Anne 1972: Mary Peters 1973: Jackie Stewart 1974: Brendan Foster 1975: David Steele 1976: John Curry 1977: Virginia Wade.
List of defunct sports leagues - List of defunct sports leagues List of defunct sports leagues =Australia= Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Football (soccer) 2 Ice Hockey 3 Pro Football: 4 Pro Basketball: 5 Pro Baseball: 6 Pro Hockey 7 Pro Soccer 8 Other: 9 External Links Football (soccer) Anglo-Australian Football Association Queensland British Football Association South Australian British Football Association Southern British Football Association Tasmania British Football Association =Canada= Ice Hockey National Hockey Association (NHA 1910-1917) =United States= Pro Football: All America Football Conference (AAFC 1946-1949) American Football League (AFL 1926, 1936-1937, 1940-1941, 1960-1969) World Football League (WFL 1974-1975) United States Football League (USFL 1983-1985) XFL (XFL 2001) Pro Basketball: Amateur Athletic Association Basketball (AAU 1897-1982) American Basketball League (ABL 1925-1955) National Basketball League (NBL 1937-1949) World Professional Basketball Tournament (1939-1948) Professional Basketball.
List of Canadian sports personalities - List of Canadian sports personalities See also: Canada's Athletes of the 20th Century Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Automobile Racing 2 Baseball 2.1 current players 3 Basketball 4 Biathlon 5 Bobsleigh 6 Boxing 7 Curling 8 Figure Skating 9 Football 10 Golf 11 Horse racing 12 Ice hockey 13 Lacrosse 14 Multiple sports 15 Professional wrestling 16 Rowing, Kayaking 17 Skiing 18 Snowboarding 19 Speed skating 20 Swimming - Diving 21 Synchronized swimming 22 Track and field 23 Triathlon 24 Weightlifting Automobile Racing Patrick Carpentier Scott Goodyear Greg Moore, (1975-1999) Paul Tracy Gilles Villeneuve, (1950-1982) Jacques Villeneuve, (born 1971), son of Gilles Baseball Reggie Cleveland Ferguson Jenkins - MLB Hall of Fame member Joseph Lannin - owner of the Boston Red Sox who signed Babe Ruth Terry Puhl.
List of sports events - List of sports events This page indexes the individual year in sports pages. Each year is annotated with a significant event as a reference point. 2000s - 1990s - 1980s - 1970s - 1960s - 1950s - 1940s - 1930s - 1920s - 1910s - 1900s - 1890s - 1880s - 1870s - 1860s - 1850s - Pre 1850s 2000s 2004 in sports - 2003 in sports - Michael Schumacher wins record sixth Formula One Championship 2002 in sports - Canada wins double gold in ice hockey at the olympics 2001 in sports - Tiger Woods becomes first golfer to hold all four major titles 2000 in sports - 1990s 1999 in sports - Death of Joe DiMaggio 1998 in sports - NHL players compete in Winter.
Vectrex - Electric (GCE) and later bought by Milton Bradley Company. It was released in late 1982, and it died in 1984 after the video game crash of 1983. Unlike other video game consoles that connected to TV's to display raster graphics, the Vectrex included its own monitor which displayed vector graphics. It also had screen overlays that would cut down on flickering and also add some color and static images. At the time many of the most popular arcade games used vector displays, and GCE was looking to set themselves apart from the pack by selling high-quality versions of games like Asteroids, Space Wars, and Armor Attack. Technical specifications CPU : Motorola 68A09 @ 1.6MHz CRT : Samsung 240RB40 B&W Vector RAM: 1KB×4-bit 2114 (two) ROM: 8KB×8-bit 2363 Sound: General Instrument AY-3-8912 List of.
Knoxville, Tennessee - the southeast of the city. Transportation is served by Interstate 40 to Asheville and Nashville and Interstate 75 to Chattanooga and Lexington, and by McGhee Tyson Airport. Knoxville is also the home of the University of Tennessee's primary campus (UTK). The university's sports teams, called the "Volunteers" or "Vols", are extremely popular in the surrounding area. In fact, the area code comprising Knoxville and nearby Oak Ridge is 865 (VOL). During the American Civil War, the Battle of Campbell Station was fought here on November 16, 1863. In that battle Confederate troops led by General James Longstreet unsuccessfully attacked Union forces under General Ambrose Burnside. The next day the two week long Siege of Knoxville began when Longstreet placed Knoxville under siege. The siege failed and Longstreet returned with his men.
Konami - Scramble, Astro Invader, Missile X, The End 1981: Frogger(released by Sega) The Hustler, Ultra Dome, Super Cobra, Jungler, Turban, Strategy X, Tactician, Locomotion, Space War, Turtles (released by Stern) 1982: Pooyan, Time Pilot, Amidar, Tutankam, Com'On Mama, Rock'n Rope, Rescue (released by Stern) 1983: Track and Field(called Hyper Olympic outside America), Gyruss, Sparky, Mega Zone, Badlands, Juno First(Arcade version only) 1984: Time Pilot '84, Road Fighter, Super Basketball, Mikie, Pandora's Palace, Circus Charlie(released by Centuri), Hyper Sports(called Hyper Olympic '84 in Japan), Frogger 2: Threeedeep 1985: Yie Ar Kung Fu, Rush'n Attack (Called Green Beret in Japan and Europe), Twinbee, Gradius, Shaolin's Road, Konami Ping Pong, Hyper Crash, Finalizer, Mat Mania(released by Memetron) 1986: Contra(called Gryzor in Europe), Double Dribble, Konami GT, JailBreak, Mr. Kabuki, Iron Horse, Salamander, Top Gunner, Rock'n.
Jack C. Haldeman II - of the greenhouse effect, and the collection of documents relating to agriculture in Florida. Haldeman published about 10 novels and over 100 short stories, beginning with "Garden of Eden" in the December 1971 Fantastic. He is notable for writing science fiction with sports themes; "Home Team Advantage", first appearing in IASFM in 1977 has been anthologized a number of times. "High Steel", a 1982 story co-authored with Jack Dann, was a Nebula Award nominee. He was married to writer Barbara Delaplace. Books Vector Analysis (1978) (add rest).
Jim Thorpe - Indian (his Sac name was Wa-Tho-Huk or Bright Path), participated in many sports, playing American football and baseball, before he competed in the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm. There he won both the pentathlon and decathlon events, earning him a compliment from the Swedish king: "Sir, you are the greatest athlete in the world." In 1913, however, Thorpe had to return his medals, as it was discovered that he had played semi-professional baseball in 1909 and 1910, which was against the - then very strict - amateurism rules. However, the medals were restored again in 1982, though Thorpe had died almost 30 years prior. On January 18, 1983 replicas of his medals were presented to his family. After he returned his medals, Thorpe also played professional football and baseball. He was.
Jim Finks - 31, 1927 to May 8, 1994) was an American sports executive primarily for American football. Jim Finks was born in Saint Louis Missouri and attended the University of Tulsa. After being selected as a 12th-round pick of the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 1949 NFL draft, he played for several years as defensive back and quarterback, retiring after the 1955 season. He served as an assistant coach under Terry Brennan at the University of Notre Dame in 1956, after which he went on to the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League, where he served as a player, assistant coach, scout, and finally general manager. Finks brought the Stampeders a Grey Cup Title during his eight-year stay in Canada. In 1964, Finks was named the general manager of the Minnesota Vikings In.
Johnny Hallyday - August 14, 1966. Johnny Hallyday and Sylvie Vartan were France's "Golden Couple" of their generation. They divorced on November 4, 1980. A year later, he married a model named Babeth Etienne on December 1, 1981 in Los Angeles, the marriage lasted 2 months and 2 days. His love affair with the French actress Nathalie Baye began in 1982, after they met on a television programme. Nathalie gave birth to their daughter, Laura, at the end of 1983. They separated in 1986. He married Adeline Blondiau in 1990. They divorced in 1992. In 1996 he married Laetitia Boudou. Albums His albums include: 100% Johnny - Concert a la Tour Eiffel (2000) Sang pour Sang (1999) Ce Que Je Sais (1998) Allume le Feu - Stade de France 98 (1998) Lorada Tour (1996).
José Ortiz - Wizard of Oz and The Concorde, is a native of Cayey who entered Puerto Rico's national basketball tournament with the Atleticos De San German in 1981. In 1982, Piculin had reached the mandatory age to join Puerto Rico's national basketball team, and so in 1983, he saw his first international competition, at the Pan American Games of Caracas, Venezuela. Ortiz and his teammates took the Atleticos to many championships, beginning with the 1985 title, won 30 years after the Atleticos last title prior to then. In 1986, they reached the finals but lost, and in 1988, they made it to the semi-finals. After the '88 campaign, Ortiz joined the Utah Jazz in the NBA for the '88-1989 season, where he stayed that season and for a portion of the '89-1990 season..
John De Lorean - is a personality and executive in the U.S automobile industry. He is most known for developing the De Lorean sports car, which was later featured in the movie Back to the Future. His career began in the 1950s with Pontiac. By 1970 he was managing Chevrolet and was tipped to be president of General Motors. Flamboyant, he was frequently seen with some of the world's most beautiful women including supermodel Christina Ferrare whom he married. He chafed at GM's management restrictions and resigned to build The DeLoreon. The DeLorean was made out of stainless steel and featured gull wing doors. On October 19, 1982, De Lorean was charged with the crime of selling cocaine to undercover police (at the Los Angeles International Airport); De Lorean successfully defended himself with a procedural.
Jürgen Möllemann - Augsburg, he used to be a member of the German government as minister of state in the department of foreign affairs (1982-1987), minister for education and science (1987-1991), and as minister for economy (1991-1993) and vice chancellor (1992-1993) under chancellor Helmut Kohl, but had to resign in 1993 when he used an official letterhead for advertising a relative's business idea (the so-called Briefbogen-Affäre). After his Abitur in 1965, Möllemann served his military duty as a paratrooper in the Bundeswehr; afterwards, he studied to become a teacher of German, sports and history at the Pädagogische Hochschule (pedagogic university) in Münster from 1966 to 1969. Möllemann was initially a member of the CDU from 1962 to 1969, but later on became a member of the liberal FDP in 1970; he was a member.
Ian Thorpe - James Thorpe (born October 13, 1982) is one of the world's best-ever middle-distance swimmers. Born in Sydney, Australia, Thorpe has completely dominated the 400 metre freestyle since his first world championship win in 1998, winning the event at the 2000 Summer Olympic Games and the 2001 Fukoka World Championships (at which he won a total of six gold medals). Indeed, his dominance has broadened to include the 200 and 800 metre freestyle (at which he holds the world record), and he is one of the fastest 100 metre freestylers in the world. Thorpe has also pushed Australian relay teams to unprecedented success, anchoring the winning 4x100 and 4x200 freestyle relay golds in Sydney, the first time the United States has ever been beaten in the events. In total, Thorpe has broken.
