1945 — Albert B. “Happy” Chandler, junior Senator from Kentucky, is elected baseball commissioner by a unanimous vote of the major league club owners. Chandler is elected to a seven-year term and ...

The boy named Shart was born in Dundee in 1981, according to The Courier. He is the only baby in Scotland to have been called ...

First-year Los Angeles Lakers head coach JJ Redick finds himself uniquely positioned to enjoy one of the better debut seasons for an L.A. coach in a good long w ...

The chatter began the moment the Los Angeles Lakers hired JJ Redick as coach last summer. There were several reports and comments about how the Lakers felt Red ...

During his time suiting up for the Sonics, Vranes wore only jersey No. 23 and put up 6.0 points, 4.4 rebounds, and 1.3 ...

The Lakers were in a tight battle with Oklahoma City, but the team unraveled when Luka Doncic got a controversial technical ...

Advertisement 1981 — Fernando Valenzuela made his first major league ... by the Los Angeles Dodgers. 1994 — Recently-retired NBA legend Michael Jordan makes his professional baseball debut by going ...

Phi Slama Jama, a nickname coined by Houston Post sports reporter Thomas Bonk in 1983, was the University of Houston men’s basketball teams from 1981 to 1984, who never won a title but made ...

The Philadelphia 76ers franchise has one of the richest histories in the NBA, beginning their 74-year stint thus far in the league as the Syracuse Nationals before moving to the City of Brotherly Love ...

Where did TNT analyst and NBA Hall of Famer Charles Barkley attend college? What to know of Barkley's career with Auburn ...

After ending his college career at Creighton, McKenna was picked up with the 88th overall selection (there were many more rounds in that era of the draft) of the 1981 NBA draft by the Los Angeles ...