DOG ASIDE: As the year 1986 in sports unfolded…..Da Bears won Super Bowl XX….following that awesome accomplishment with the team doing The Super Bowl Shuffle….which Bone Daddy has in his library…..but suffice to say….Coach Mike Ditka and his Chicago Bears put a slap-down on the New England Patriots….and 1986 was off and running…..as the OU…
DOG ASIDE: This video starts off with a look at sports outside of the USA…..as Americans tend to think sports starts and ends with USA sports….but it is so untrue. Bone Daddy has traveled fairly extensively around the world….and being the original Sportsphile….he had to search out sporting events in the places he went….so, he…
DOG ASIDE: Part 3 of 1985 CBS year in review covers the year in golf and tennis. In golf there was Benhard Langer and Curtis Stange in the Masters….Hal Sutton at the Memphis Open….Roger Maltbie’s win Westwood….and then there were the kids winning…. Bill Glasson at the Kemper Open….Mark O’Meara at The Corsby and The…
DOG ASIDE: The year 1985 in college football provided many memorable moments…. Coach Eddie Robinson won his 324 game and passing Bear Bryant…..TCU’s Coach Jim Wacker stood tall when 7 of his players admitted to accepting money from alumni….Bo Jackson of Auburn beat out Chuck Long of Iowa for the Heisman Trophy…..and Joe Dudak of…
DOG ASIDE: Bone Daddy and I just live in a land of excitement every year when March Madness comes around….as the NCAA Men’s Final Four is always chocked-full of “last second excitement”…..and it just doesn’t get any better than that to a Sportsphile. CBS Billy Packer covers the dream story of Villanova University and Coach…
DOG ASIDE: John Madden is truly a rare American national resource….he should be crowned as a natural spring for footbal from which billions flow….even more so today….some 34 years after this video was taped. During the mid-1980’s, Madden had his own program called John Madden’s Journal….and it was some really good stuff….delivered in that undeniable…
DOG ASIDE: In the year 1985…..sports was in full bloom around the world…..with Associated Press Athletes of the Year Men’s Dwight Gooden, NY Mets and Women’s Nancy Lopez, LPGA golf…with Pete Rose winning ABC Wide World of Sports Athlete of the Year…..as there are so many other champions and championship moments in this 3-part video…
DOG ASIDE: Sports in 1982 brought us World Figure Skating Champions USA’s Scott Hamilton and Elaine Zayak…..in golf, Craid Stadler won The Masters…..with Tom Watson winning the US and British Opens and Ray Floyd the PGA Championship….and the NY Islanders dominated the Vancouver Canucks 4 – 0 to win the Stanley Cup….and Hammerin Hank Aaron…
DOG ASIDE: One of the all time records in sports was started in 1982…..as the 1st game of the Baltimore Orioles SS Cal Ripken, Jr. record breaking consecutive games played of 2,632 was on May 30, 1982…..plus on August 18, 1982….Pete Rose sets record with his 13, 941 plate appearances…of which he would have many…