Friday Flashbacks: The Pine Tar Game, Atlanta Olympics Bombing, Birth to the BCS

Preseason games in jeopardy with NFL work stoppage (1970) . . . Packers and Bears players arrested for picketing Lambeau Field (1974) . . . The NFLPA threatens a strike (1982) . . . The BCS comes to life (1996) . . . Survey: golfers prefer trying for holes in one over sex (1988) . . . A bill in Ohio Senate to change nicknames of Cleveland Indians and Miami of Ohio (1993) . . . Sergei Federov defects while at the Goodwill Games (1990) . . .

Bomb explosion in Olympic Centennial Park (1996) . . . Willie Gallimore and John “Bo” Farrington of the defending champion Bears die in car crash during training camp (1964) . . . Nolan Ryan loses 8th straight game (1975) . . . Swedish Boy Lies About Hole in Ones, probably hates sex now (1991) . . . Players vote to keep two All-$tar Games (1960) . . . Ted Williams passes away (2002) . . . Minor league promotion: first woman to go in labor gets free diapers for a year (1999) . . . Red Sox release Bill Buckner (1987) . . .

Vince McMahon acquitted of conspiring to distribute steroids (1994) . . . A Muhammad Ali-Lyle Alzado exhibition fight lost money (1979) . . . A water skier we can root for (1966) . . . Wilbur Wood starts–and loses–both games of a double header (1973) . . . The Army gave special treatment to athletes? Stunning (1954) . . . A WNBA fan is not enamored with King Kaufman’s penis-centric columns (2005) . . . Could this finally be the Cubs’ big year? (1984).

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