BCS officials vacated the championship after the Trojans were hit with heavy NCAA sanctions last year for rules violations committed during the 2004 and ’05 seasons.Ģ015 - American Pharoah leads all the way to win the Belmont Stakes by 5½ lengths, becoming the first horse in 37 years to sweep the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes.
Nadal improves to 38-1 at Roland Garros, with the only loss to Soderling in the fourth round a year ago.Ģ011 - The Bowl Championship Series strips the Southern California Trojans of their 2004 title, leaving that season without a BCS champion. Alysheba is a distant fourth.Ģ007 - Trevor Hoffman becomes the first major leaguer with 500 career saves when he closes out the San Diego Padres’ 5-2 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers.Ģ010 - Rafael Nadal wins his fifth French Open title and avenges his lone Roland Garros defeat, beating Robin Soderling 6-4, 6-2, 6-4. Bold Venture, the Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner, does not run in the race.ġ946 - The National Basketball Association is founded at the Commodore Hotel in New York.ġ969 - Joe Namath resigns from NFL after Pete Rozelle, football commissioner, said he must sell his stake in a bar.ġ976 - 30th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Phoenix Suns, 4 games to 2.ġ981 - Summing, ridden by George Martins, wins the Belmont Stakes, spoiling Pleasant Colony’s Triple Crown bid.ġ987 - Bet Twice, ridden by Craig Perret, breezes to a 14-length victory in the Belmont Stakes to deny Alysheba the Triple Crown. Open with a three-stroke victory over Bobby Jones.ġ936 - Granville, ridden by James Stout, wins the Belmont Stakes by a neck over Mr.
The 3-to-5 favorite wins by six lengths, covering the distance in 59 seconds.ġ924 - Cyril Walker captures the U.S. 1919 - Man o’ War wins his first race, a 5-furlong contest over a straightaway at Belmont Park.
0 kommentar(er)
