As a sophomore, Shields earned All-Big Eight honors – the first for an NU sophomore since Dave Rimington. Before his career was done, Shields would be first-team All-Big Eight three times, making him ...

Willie Anderson edges Alex Smith by one stroke in a playoff to take the U.S. Open. 1938 — Johnny Vander Meer of the Cincinnati Reds pitches his second straight no-hit game, defeating the Brooklyn ...

The San Diego Padres joined Major League Baseball as an expansion franchise in 1969. There was an expansion draft to select ...

That’s the day when Wilbur Jackson of Ozark — who wore No. 80 — put pen to paper and became the Crimson Tide’s first Black scholarship football player. He played in his first game at Alabama in 1971, ...

Trenton Robinson went from Bay City to the NFL and back again. The hometown hero starred at Bay City Central and Michigan State University then took it the distance as a starting defensive back in the ...

Follow along as the College Football ... powder dry for the championship? Mostly, though, that didn’t impact the SEC because Atlanta is an easy road trip for most of the league and this game ...