Back in Time: July 1


Bob Gibson's 47 2/3 innings scoreless streak ends on a wild pitch.

Cal Ripken Jr. (seen here with his father, Cal Ripken Sr.) plays his first major league game.

NFL owners vote unanimously to form the World League of American Football.

Nevada Athletic Commission suspends Mike Tyson for biting Holyfield in the ear during a match a few days earlier.

Kenny Rogers is suspended for 20 games and fined $50,000 for actions which sends a cameraman to the hospital and launches a police investigation.

Stephon Marbury's rambling, disjointed, quixotic and hilariously nonsensical TV interview with Bruce Beck on the local NBC affiliate's Sunday night sports show quickly becomes a landmark moment in viral video history.

Jarome Iginla (1977) Carl Lewis (1961)
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