Week of August 28th

Relive some of the greatest moments in Sports History

Episode Transcript

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Looking back at the world of sports. It's the iHeart Radio Weekend Sports Time
Capsule. Well it's happening, fellowsports fans. It's Andy West and I'm
here to take you on a journeyback to this week in sports history.
We'll start off in nineteen forty eight, Jackie Robinson of the Brooklyn Dodgers hit
for the cycle in a twelve toseven win over the Cardinals. Robinson drove

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in two runs, scored three runs, and stole a base. This week,
in nineteen sixty six, the HoustonOilers hold the Denver Broncos to no
first downs, winning the game fortyfive to seven. This week in nineteen
seventy, we lost one of thegreatest coaches in sports figures of all time.
Then Lombardi passes away at age fiftyseven in Washington, DC. Lombardi

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was so influential the trophy awarded tothe Super Bowl champs is called the Lombardi
Trophy. This week, in nineteenseventy four, nineteen year old high school
basketball star Moses Malone signs a contractwith the Utah Stars of the ABA to
become the first player to go directlyhigh school into major professional basketball. This
week, In two thousand and two, Mark Bellhorn became the first player in

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National League history to hit a homerun in the same inning from both sides
of the plate. And this weekin two thousand and seven, one of
the biggest upsets in college football history, Appalachian State beats number five ranked Michigan
thirty four thirty two to start thecollege football season. And that's just some
of what happened this weekend sports history. The Weekend Sports Time Capsule on iHeartRadio