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Dec 5 3rd Big 12 Championship Game: #10 Texas A&M beats #2 Kansas State, 36-33 (2 OT) Dec 5 7th SEC Championship Game: #1 Tennessee beats #23 Mississippi State, 24-14 Dec 6 87th Davis Cup: Sweden beats Italy in Milan (4-1)
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Events in sport in July 1998. See what famous, scandalous...
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Apr 4 151st Grand National: Carl Llewellyn wins aboard Earth...
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Sep 1 American harness trainer and driver Dave Palone wins...
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Nov 7 10th College Football Holy War: Notre Dame beats...
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January 1: From this day onwards in California, all card rooms, clubs and bars must be smoke-free. January 1: In Mongolia, the work week is changed from 46 hours to 40 hours. January 1: The United States Census Bureau reports that the US population estimates at 268,921,733. January 1: In Russia, new rubles begin to circulate to stem inflation, and ...
February 1: In the United States Navy, Lillian E. Fishburne becomes the first African American woman to be promoted to rear admiral. February 2: In New York City, actor, director and producer Daniel Baldwin is taken to hospital after suffering a cocaine overdose. February 2: The Philippine DC-9 flight crashes killing all people on board the flight....
March 1: Pat Riley, coach for the Miami Heat basketball team, becomes the fifth head coach to achieve 900 NBA career wins when the team defeats the New Jersey Nets 85-84. March 1: The film Titanic becomes the first film to gross 1 billion US dollars. March 2: The Galileo spacecraft sends data that reveals that the moon of Jupiter, Europa, has a liq...
April 5: In the Nations Rugby Championship, Wales are heavily defeated by France, 51 points to none, at Wembley Stadium in London. April 5: The San Francisco Giantsare defeated by the Arizona Diamondbacks in the team’s first win in their history. They defeat the Giants 3-2 in Phoenix, Arizona in one of the main April 1998 events in sport. April 5: ...
May 4: In Sacramento, California, unabomber Ted Kaczynski is given 4 life sentences by a federal judge, plus another 30 years after. Kaczynski accepted a plea agreement which spared him the death penalty. May 6: 20 Houston Astros players are striked out by Kerry Wood to reach the major league record held by Roger Clemens. Wood threw a one-hotter an...
June 1: In Brussels, the European Central Bank is founded, intended to execute and define the European Union’s monetary policy. June 1: Susie Maroney from Australia is the first person to swim to Cuba from Mexico, across the shark and jellyfish-infested Yucatan Straits. She swims the 123-mile distance in 38 hours and 33 minutes in a cage. June 2: I...
July 1: After no agreement is made with players about salary issues, the NBA begins a player lockout. This lasts 204 days and the basketball season is cut short by 50 games. July 2: The second book in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, is published in the UK by Bloomsbury. July 4: In Wimbledon Women’s Tennis, French p...
August 2: In the Tour de France, Italian Marco Pantani makes it a Tour and Giro d’Italia double, with Erik Zabel from Germany the points winner. August 3: Boyzone, Irish boy band, release No Matter What, their best-selling single. The single was composed by Jim Steinman and Andrew Lloyd Webber. August 4: 5.4 million people lose their lives before t...
September 2: Near Peggy’s Cove in Nova Scotia, Swissair Flight 111 crashes, resulting in the deaths of all 229 people on board. September 2: The former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, Jean-Paul Akayesu, is found guilty of nine counts of genocide by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. This is the first time that the law of 1948 banning ...
October 1: Of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin becomes a permanent member. October 1: When the Europol Convention being signed by all its members comes into force, the Europol is formed. October 2: Australian cricket batsman smashes an astounding 157 to guide the tourists to an innings and 99 run win over Pakistan in t...
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- American Football. High school, college and professional teams are successful in Texas. 211 current NFL players came from Texas schools. Earl Campbell and Raymond Clayborn are among famous Texan NFL players.
- Soccer. Texas has approximately 246,863 young soccer players. Lee Nguyen is a successful Texan soccer player. FC Dallas and Houston Dynamo FC are Major League Soccer teams in Texas.
- Basketball. The Univesity of Texas first started playing in basketball competitions in 1900. There are three NBA franchises in Texas: Dallas Mavericks, San Antonio Spurs and Houston Rockets.
- Baseball. There are 78 professional baseball teams and clubs in Texas. The Houston Astros have won 2 World Series Titles. The Texas Rangers is one of the most famous baseball teams in the state.
- Sports in 1990. BASEBALL. There were many significant events in the baseball world in 1990. The beginning of the decade saw a World Series sweep, a record breaking contract, and more.
- Sports in 1991. BASEBALL. For the first time in the modern era, a team rose from last place to first, and won the World Series. In fact, in 1991, two teams pulled a worst-to-first, the Minnesota Twins and the Atlanta Braves.
- Sports in 1992. BASEBALL. At the beginning of the 1992 season, Fay Vincent had resigned from his position as baseball’s commissioner after a no-confidence vote from the owners.
- Sports in 1993. In March, Dallas became the sixth city in the US to have franchises in all four major pro sports: baseball, basketball, hockey and football when the Minnesota North Stars relocated and changed their name to the Stars.
Multi-sport events. 1998 Winter Olympics held in Nagano, Japan. Germany wins the most medals (29), and the most gold medals (12) Asian Games held in Bangkok, Thailand. 1998 Commonwealth Games held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia [2] Central American and Caribbean Games held in Maracaibo, Venezuela.
Dec 27, 1998 · THE YEAR IN SPORTS Top National Stories of 1998. 1. HOME RUN CHASE. Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa captivate the baseball world by surpassing Roger Maris' single-season home run record. St. Louis' McGwire eclipses the single-season record of 61 home runs when he clubs No. 62 against Steve Trachsel on Sept. 8 in St. Louis.
1998 TCU Horned Frogs football team; 1998 Texaco Grand Prix of Houston; 1998 Texas A&M Aggies football team; 1998 Texas Longhorns football team; 1998 Texas Southern Tigers football team; 1998 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team; 1998 True Value 500
