On This Day in Sports - March 26

[Anonymous519]

• 1945 - De Paul wins NIT basketball championship, George Mikan scores 34
  
  
  
  
  
• 1972 - Los Angeles Lakers break NBA record by winning 69 of 82 games
  
  
  
  
  
• 1973 - 35th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Memphis 81-76; this is UCLA's 7th consecutive NCAA basketball title
  
  
  
  
  
• 1974 - George Foreman TKOs Ken Norton in two rounds for heavyweight boxing title
  
  
  
  
• 1979 - 41st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Michigan State Spartans beat Indiana State Sycamores, 75-64 as Magic Johnson outscores Larry Bird, 24-19; this snaps Indiana State's 33-game win streak
  
  
  
  
• 1992 - NHL New York Rangers clinch first NHL regular season championship in 50 years
  
  
  
  
  
  
• 1994 - Bonnie Blair skates world record 500 meter ladies (38.99 seconds)
  

 

[NoBueno]

Crazy fact: Until his senior year, many Americans were not aware that Larry Bird was white. Indiana State wasn't on national TV, and the brief game summaries in newspapers seldom had pictures.