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Join Rutledge Wood for the latest edition of Elementary Speed with Indy driver Alexander Rossi.

The London Olympics opening ceremony officially began at 9:00 pm British Summer Time in the Olympic Stadium and the ceremony was called "Isles of Wonder".

Celebrating his birthday in true baseball style, Alex Rodriguez of the Texas Rangers became the first player to hit a walk off grand slam on his birthday.

At the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta two people died as a result of a bombing, and more than 100 others were injured.

Paul Biedermann set a record time in the 400 metres freestyle swimming race at the World Championships in Rome, Italy.

Adam Peaty set a record time of 25.95 for the 50 m breaststroke at the World Championships in Budapest, Hungary.

MFL quarterback Brett Favre, re-signs with Green Bay Packers for a reported $50M for seven years.

President George Bush, on Air Force One, slammed Roseanne Barr's National Anthem performance as "disgraceful", as she ended it by appearing to spit on the floor.

The 19th edition of the Asian Men's Volleyball Championship opened in Gresik, Indonesia with Japan defending its title.

Yankees manager Billy Martin, who had noticed a large amount of pine tar on Brett's bat, requested that the umpires inspect his bat. The umpires ruled that the amount of pine tar on the bat exceeded the amount allowed by rule, nullified Brett's home run,