On This Day

The Comets’ Cynthia Cooper had 25 points, including 14 in the second half, and Tina Thompson added 18, but the key to the victory was a 9-minute, 24-second stretch of the second half in which the smothering Houston defense held New York to just four point

Thomas was a designated hitter and first baseman who spent the majority of his 19-season career in Chicago, from his debut in 1990 through 2005. Thomas’ number is the ninth retired by White Sox.

At the time, Woods was the youngest U.S. Amateur champion at 18 years, 7 months, 29 days.

All grand slams were recorded in the final four innings of the game, bringing the Yankees from a six-run deficit to a lead the A’s couldn’t overcome.

The 23-year-old athlete out of Northeast Louisiana State College — now known as University of Louisiana Monroe — completed his record-breaking vault using a fiberglass pole, while most other vaulters were still using wooden poles.

Simone Biles won her fifth U.S. National Gymnastics Championships all-around title at TD Garden in Boston on Aug. 19, 2018.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced on Aug. 18, 1964, that it revoked the South African Olympic and National Games Association’s invitation to the Summer Olympics in Tokyo due the organization’s lack of opposition to its country’s aparthei

First foul ball broke her nose, second hit her in the knee.

Time Inc. publisher Henry Luce created Sports Illustrated (SI) to be the first weekly printed national magazine focused on live sporting events, with the first issue hitting newsstands on Aug. 16, 1954.

In the preliminary heats, Peaty broke his own world record of 57.55 seconds, which he set in 2015. Then he broke the record again, this time in the finals with winning with a time of 57.13 seconds.