Re: Field of 64 (Bracket announced. It's a fun game, people!)
Here's my first-round bracket ;D
East
1 Jackie Robinson breaks MLB’s color barrier
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16 Greg LeMond becomes first American to win Tour de France
8 Bill Mazeroski’s HR wins World Series for Pirates
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9 Tonya Harding-Nancy Kerrigan knee-capping incident
5 NFL-AFL merger, birth of the Super Bowl
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12 Christian Laettner’s last-second shot sinks Kentucky
4 Secretariat wins Triple Crown
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13 Affirmed duels with Alydar, wins 1978 Triple Crown
6 Roger Maris breaks Babe Ruth’s single-season HR record
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11 Limping Kirk Gibson hits HR for Dodgers in 1988 World Series
3 Michael Jordan returns to Bulls after baseball stint
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14 Gene Sarazen’s double-eagle at the 1935 Masters
7 Arthur Ashe announces he has AIDS
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10 Arnold Palmer comes back to win 1960 Masters
2 Joe Louis KOs Max Schmeling
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15 1940s college basketball point-fixing scandal
West
1 Jesse Owens in Nazi Germany
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16 O.J. Simpson runs for 2,000 yards in a single season
8 Gene Tunney-Jack Dempsey “long count”
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9 Red Sox-Mets, Game 6, Bill Buckner’s flub
5 Billie Jean King wins “Battle of the Sexes”
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12 California wins “The Game” while Stanford’s band storms the field
4 Bob Beamon breaks the long-jump record
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13 Nadia Comenici’s perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics
6 Jack Nicklaus wins The Masters at 46
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11 Franco Harris and “The Immaculate Reception”
3 Soviets beat U.S. for Olympic basketball gold
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14 Pete Rose becomes baseball’s hit king
7 Ben Johnson stripped of sprinting medals after positive steroid tests
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10 Don Larsen’s perfect game in the World Series
2 Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa surpass Maris
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15 Johnny Vander Meer becomes the first to throw two no-hitters in the same season
South
1 Munich Olympics hostage tragedy (My championship pick right here)
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16 Richard Petty wins first nationally televised Daytona 500
8 Lou Gehrig’s “Luckiest man on earth” speech
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9 Tiger Woods wins the 1997 Masters
5 All-black Texas Western beats all-white Kentucky for NCAA basketball title
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12 Miami Dolphins’ perfect season
4 Roger Bannister’s 4-minute mile
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13 Babe Didricksen breaks 4 world records at Olympic trials
6 Joe Namath guarantees victory, Jets beat Colts in Super Bowl
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11 Joe Montana to Dwight Clark for “The Catch”
3 Red Sox’ Curse of the Bambino
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14 Loyola Marymount’s Hank Gathers dies on basketball court
7 Althea Gibson becomes first black player to win Wimbledon, U.S. Open
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10 Carlton Fisk homers in Game 6 of the 1975 World Series
2 Hank Aaron hits 715
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15 Jackie Joyner-Kersee sets heptathlon world record in Seoul
Midwest
1 Muhammad Ali vs. The Army
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16 Jim Thorpe owns 1912 Olympics
8 Wayne Gretzky traded to Los Angeles
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9 Reggie Jackson’s Mr. October, three HR performance
5 American sprinters wear black gloves during Olympic medal ceremony
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12 John Wooden retires a champion after UCLA beats Kentucky
4 Bobby Thomson’s “shot heard ‘round the world”
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13 Bjorn Borg-John McEnroe marathon match at Wimbledon
6 Formation of the World Series
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11 Elvin Hayes, Houston end UCLA basketball team’s winning streak
3 Black Sox scandal
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14 Mark Spitz wins seven gold medals at Munich Olympics
7 Cal Ripken breaks Gehrig’s record, becomes baseball’s Iron Man
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10 Florence Griffith Joyner owns Seoul Olympics
