Tag: Record setting events
Louisville sets ACC Tournament record with 7 home runs
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Alex Binelas tied an ACC Tournament record with three home runs and No. 7 seed Louisville combined for seven homers in...
Grim western fire season starts much drier than record 2020
As bad as last year’s record-shattering fire season was, the western U.S. starts this year’s in even worse shape.
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Sevilla wins last game to break club record for most points
MADRID —
Sevilla set a club record for points in...
Record-setting centenarian cyclist Marchand dies aged 109
Robert Marchand, a diminutive Frenchman who once was told he would never excel in cycling only to set world records as a centenarian, has...
This Date in Baseball
May 21
1926 — Earl Sheely of the Chicago White Sox...
AP Sportlight
May 21
1881 — A small group of tennis club members...
India sets global record for daily coronavirus deaths
NEW DELHI — India recorded the pandemic’s highest single-day death toll in the world on Wednesday, as coronavirus infections continued to spread through its...
Record-setting sprinter, ’68 Olympic activist Lee Evans dies
LAGOS, Nigeria — Lee Evans, the record-setting sprinter who wore a black beret in a sign of protest at the 1968 Olympics, died Wednesday....
Russian swimmer Kolesnikov lowers 50 back world record again
BUDAPEST, Hungary — For the second consecutive day, Russian swimmer Kliment Kolesnikov improved his own world record in the 50-meter backstroke.
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AP Sportlight
May 14
1913 — Washington’s Walter Johnson gives up a run...
