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 /.
Fox Sports Net - Fox Sports Net The Fox Sports Regional Networks, or simply Fox Sports Net, are cable TV networks that were originally owned by separate companies. The most notable were the SportsChannel networks, which went on the air in 1977 with the original SportsChannel (now Fox Sports New York), and the Prime Sports Networks, which went on the air in 1983 with the charter member being Prime Sports Southwest (now Fox Sports Southwest). During the 1990s, News Corporation, which launched the Fox Network in 1986, bought both the Prime Sports and SportsChannel regional sports networks. Only three major regional sports networks are not part of Fox Sports Net (as of 2002): Sunshine Network (Florida sports), NESN (New England Sports Network), and Midwest Sportschannel (not part of the older SportsChannel.
1983 - 1983 Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century Decades: 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s - 1980s - 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s 2030s Years: 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 - 1983 - 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 See also: 1983 in aviation 1983 in film 1983 in literature 1983 in music 1983 in sports 1983 in television 1983 in Canada Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Year in topic 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Nobel Prizes 6 Fictional References to the Year Events January 1 - the ARPANET officially changes to use the Internet Protocol, creating the Internet. January 2 - The musical Annie is performed for the last time after 2,377 shows (Uris Theatre on Broadway, New York City). January 19 - Klaus.
1907 in sports - 1907 in sports See also: 1906 in sports, other events of 1907, 1908 in sports and the list of years in sports. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Baseball 3 Births 4 Deaths Events Norman Brookes of Australia becomes the first international Wimbledon Mens Singles champion. Baseball The Chicago Cubs defeated the Detroit Tigers four games to none (with one tie) in the World Series Tris Speaker debutes September 14; Walter Johnson debutes August 2 Jake Beckley retires Births February 11 - E W Swanton, author & sports commentator. February 17 - Buster Crabbe, swimming champion, actor (+ 1983) April 2 - Luke Appling, baseball player (+ 1991) August 11 - Bobo Newsom, baseball player (+ 1962) September 12 - Spud Chandler - baseball player (+.
1984 in sports - 1984 in sports See also: 1983 in sports, other events of 1984, 1985 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 won the Daytona 500 NASCAR Championship - Terry Labonte Richard Petty wins the 200th (and final) race of his career on July 4. Indianapolis 500 - Rick Mears CART Racing - Mario Andretti won the season championship Formula One Championship - Niki Lauda of Austria 24.
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 Bell.
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 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 - 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 game titles 3D Crazy Coaster 3D Minestorm.
Konami - 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 Rage, Mania Challenge (released by Memetron), WEC Lemans, Jailbreak, Goonies 1987: Haunted.
Jack Dempsey - William Harrison Dempsey, better known as Jack Dempsey (June 24, 1895-May 31, 1983), was a famous boxer who won the world heavyweight title. During the 1920's he was involved in many famous fights. Dempsey as a 16 year old began hopping on trains and travelling west to fight as a professional, and his exact record is not known because sometimes he used the name of Kid Blackie to book himself into fights. This practice continued until 1916. In between, he first appeared as Jack Dempsey in 1914, drawing with Young Herman in six rounds. After that fight, he won six bouts in a row by knockout (as Jack Dempsey), before losing for the first time, on a disqualification in four to Jack Downes. During this early part of his career, Dempsey.
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 - 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) Destination Vegas (1996) Lorada (1995) Rough Town (1995) 31 Compilation Albums in 1993.
José Ortiz - 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. He then joined a team in Spain, where he played many years. In.
Jose Cuevas - him in the second round. After that, perhaps the only really notable opponent he had was Roberto Duran, who stopped him in the fourth round in the spring of 1983. He also lost to former world title challenger Jun Sok-Hwang and future or former world champions Jorge Vaca and Lupe Aquino before finally retiring in 1989. Cuevas is the owner of a restaurant and a security company in Mexico City. At one point of his career, he was also the owner of a famous sports and luxury car collection, and he was one of the first boxers to model a golden tooth. Most people probably know him for his nickname of Pipino, Pipino being far more used to refer to him than Jose by fight commentators and magazine writers He ran.
June 24 - capsizes in Chicago. 800 people die. 1916 - Mary Pickford becomes first film star to get million dollar contract. 1918 - First airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto. 1932 - A military coup ends the absolute power of the king of Siam (Thailand). 1940 - France and Italy sign an armistice. 1941 - The Germans capture Vilna, Brest-Litovsk, and Kaunas. 1946 - Georges Bidault becomes Prime Minister of France 1948 - Start of the Berlin Blockade. The Soviet Union makes overland travel between the West with West Berlin impossible. 1963 - Zanzibar is granted internal self-government by the UK. 1975 - An Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 crashes at John F. Kennedy Airport, New York. 113 people die. 1983 - Sally Ride, first female American astronaut, returns to earth. Births.
July 31 - Delta Airlines jetliner crashed while landing in fog at Logan Airport, Boston, Massachusetts killing 89 1975 - In Detroit, Michigan, Teamsters Union president Jimmy Hoffa is reported missing. 1976 - NASA releases the famous Face on Mars photo, taken by Viking 1 1992 - A Thai Airways Airbus A300-310 crashes into mountain south of Kathmandu, Nepal killing 113 1999 - NASA intentionally crashes the Lunar Prospector spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the moon's surface. Births 1396 - Philip III of Burgundy, duke of Burgundy (+ 1467) 1816 - George Henry Thomas, American general (+ 1870) 1901 - Jean Dubuffet, painter and sculptor (+ 1985) 1912 - Irv Kupcinet, newspaper columnist 1912 - Milton Friedman, recipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize in economics 1914.
Junk food news - office opening news) Latest craze news (Brief fads such as Furby, Pokemon, Segway) Celebrity news (Celebrity gossip) Anniversary news (Anniversary of a major event or celebrity death) Sports news (sports rumours and gossip) Political junk news The term "junk food news" suggests an unflattering similarity in quality of some stories selected by news editors and junk food (poor quality food stuffs). It was first used in print by Carl Jenson in the March 1983 edition of Penthouse. The term evolved from response to criticism of Project Censored by news directors and editors who argued that the real issue wasn't censorship - rather a difference of opinion as to what information is important to publish or broadcast. Some critics tried to bolster this view with ad hominem comments about Carl Jenson. They.
