DOG ASIDE: The Men’s decathlon competition at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada, was held at the Olympic Stadium on 29–30 July. The decathlon consists of ten track and field events, with a points system that awards higher scores for better results in each of the ten components. The athletes all compete in one…
DOG ASIDE: The 1961 New York Yankees season was the 59th season for the team in New York….and its 61st season overall. The team finished with a record of 109–53….which were eight games ahead of the Detroit Tigers….as they won their 26th American League pennant. New York was managed by Ralph Houk….while the Yankees…
DOG ASIDE: For every Sportsphile out there in the world….the Closing Ceremony telecast for any Olympic Games is a bit of a sad day….cuz the Olympics are over….and the Olympic fans won’t get to view another for four years…..and the wait seems to be endless….but the Closing Ceremony for the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympics…
DOG ASIDE: Ice dancing is a discipline of figure skating that draws from ballroom dancing….as it joined the World Figure Skating Championships in 1952….and became a Winter Olympic Games medal sport in 1976. As in pair skating, dancers compete as a couple consisting of a man and a woman. Ice dance differs from pair skating…
DOG ASIDE: ABC’s Jim McKay brings the viewer of this video clip a blast from the past in Olympic Figure Skating at the 1980 Lake Placid Games…. as past Olympic Champions John Curry and Dorothy Hamill return to the ice at the Olympics to perform a special added attraction at the Lake Placid Games. I…
DOG ASIDE: Host Zero Mostel does a delightful job of introducing the various acts on this television special of The Chipperfield’s Circus…..the most popular touring circus in Europe and especially Endland for year……and in this video segment we get to see one of the fabulous high wire acts that the circus was known for……Man, don’t…
DOG ASIDE: Thomas “Hitman” Hearns was 30 – 0 when he defended his WBA Welterweight Title against Randy Shields in April of 1981…..as he was well on his way to a long and successful boxing career….one which garnered him five different titles in five different weight classes. His opponent Randy Shields was a world class…
DOG ASIDE: Thomas Hearns is the only boxer in boxing history to win world championship belts in five (5) different weight classes….as his tall slender body as a young welterweight boxer allowed him to gain fifty (50) pounds during his long successful career….which gave him the opportunity to record this achievement. This December 1981 fight…
DOG ASIDE: Thomas “Tommy” Hearns (born October 18, 1958) is an American former professional boxer….nicknamed the “Motor City Cobra” and more famously “The Hitman”….for he was known as a devastating puncher with a serious knockout punch. Hearns was tall and slender….a build which allowed him to move up over fifty pounds in his career….becoming the…