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North Carolina basketball coach Dean Smith announced his retirement after 36 seasons and two national championships.

Art Shell, the head coach of the Oakland Raiders leads his team to a 14-7 victory over the New York Jets in his first game as the Raiders head coach.

The 2017 Japanese Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race won by British racing driver Lewis Hamilton who races in Formula One for Mercedes AMG Petronas.

The ABA's San Antonio Spurs defeated the NBA's Atlanta Hawks 109-107 in the first basketball game to be played in the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans.

In game five of the 1956 World Series pitcher Don Larsen of the New York Yankees threw a perfect game against the Brooklyn Dodgers. Larsen's perfect game is the first perfect game in World Series history.

The Islanders versus the Bruins open the Fleet Center (which will become TD Garden) in Boston the NHL game ended in a 2-2 tie.

Running back Walter Payton past Jim Brown as the all-time rushing leader he did it on a run in third quarter of the Bears' victory over New Orleans.

Former softball All-American and Olympian Jessica Mendoza became the first woman broadcaster in Major League history to broadcast a nationally televised postseason game.

The 2010 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship was held in Italy, Brazil won and its star Murilo Endres was selected as the MVP.

As a result of stalled collective bargaining negotiations with the National Basketball Players Association, the NBA announced that all 114 preseason games for 1998 have been canceled.