Sat 11 Jan 2020
1921 — Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis becomes baseball's commissioner and is given wide-ranging powers. 1958 — Dolph Schayes of the Syracuse Nationals sets an NBA record for career points in a 135-109 victory over the Detroit Pistons. 1960 — Syracuse's Dolph Schayes becomes the first player in NBA history to score 15,000 career points.
Wed 21 Aug 2019
Following is a summary of current sports news briefs. From the throngs of young fans who idolize her, to the tennis experts desperately seeking the sport's "next big thing", there is no shortage of expectations on the shoulders of 15-year-old Cori "Coco" Gauff. After seeing off five-times Wimbledon champion Venus Williams on the way to reaching the last 16 at the All England Club this year, Gauff enters the final Grand Slam of 2019 with the kind of megawatt attention usually reserved only for the sport's highest echelon.