Week of September 4th

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 ajourney back to this week in sports history.
We'll start up. In nineteen fifty, Darlington Raceway in South Carolina hosted
the inaugural Southern five hundred, thefirst five hundred mile NASCAR race. The

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winner was Johnny Madman Manz in aPlymouth. Jumping ahead ten years. This
week in nineteen sixty, the DenverBroncos beat the Boston Patriots thirteen to ten
in the American Football League's first regularseason game. The game is played on
Friday night at Boston University's Nickerson Field. Jumping ahead twenty years. This week
in nineteen eighty, John McEnroe beatsBjorn Borg of Sweden to win his second

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straight US Open Men's title. Thisweek in nineteen ninety five, Cal Ripken
Junior plays in his two thousand,one hundred and thirty first consecutive Major League
game to surpass Leu Garrig's fifty sixyear record. Ripken receives a twenty two
minutes standing ovation and later hits ahome run in Baltimore's four to two wins.
This week in two thousand two,Venus and Serena Williams meet in a

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prime time US Open Women's singles finalfor the second straight year. Younger sister
Serena comes out on top, defeatingVenus six four six three for her second
US Open Women's singles title. Inthis week in twenty eleven, Green Bay's
Aaron Rodgers and Drew Breese of theSaints marked the first time in NFL history
that opposing quarterbacks both passed for atleast three hundred yards and three touchdowns without

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an interception. Inner team's season opener, the Packers make a goal line stand
on the final play of the gameto beat the Saints forty two thirty four.
And that's just some of what happenedthis weekend sports history The Weekend Sports
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