Today in Sports History -- May 8 By The Associated Press 1915 — Regret, ridden by Joe Notter, becomes the first filly to win the Kentucky Derby, with a 2-length wire-to-wire victory over Pebbles. 1937 — War Admiral, the favorite ridden by Charles Kurtsinger, wins the Kentucky Derby by 1¾ lengths over Pompoon. 1943 — Count Fleet, ridden by Johnny Longden, wins the Preakness Stakes by 8 lengths over Blue Swords. 1954 — World record holder William Parry OBrien becomes the first man to throw the shot put more than 60 feet with a toss of 60-5¼ at a meet in Los Angeles. 1968 — Jim Catfish Hunter of the Oakland As pitches a perfect game, beating the Minnesota Twins 4-0. It is the first perfect game in the American League regular season in 46 seasons. 1970 — Walt Frazier scores 36 points to lead the New York Knicks to a 113-99 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers and the NBA championship in seven games. 1984 — On the day the Olympic torch relay begins, the Soviet Union announces it will not take part in the 1984 Summer Olympics. The Soviet National Olympic Committee Union said the participation of Soviet athletes would be impossible because of the gross flouting of Olympic ideals by U.S. authorities. 1993 — Lennox Lewis of Britain scores a unanimous 12-round decision over Tony Tucker to retain his WBC heavyweight title in Las Vegas in his first defense. 1995 — New Zealands Black Magic 1 takes a 2-0 lead, defeating Young America by the widest margin for a challenger since the 1871 Americas Cup. 1998 — Mark McGwire becomes the fastest player to hit 400 home runs when he connects in the third inning of the St. Louis Cardinals game against the New York Mets. McGwire, the 26th player to reach the milestone, hit his 400 homers in 4,726 at-bats. The previous best was 4,854 by Babe Ruth. 2000 — The New Jersey Devils hold Toronto to an NHL modern record-low six shots to eliminate the Maple Leafs from the Stanley Cup playoffs with a 3-0 victory. It is the fewest shots by a team in any NHL game since the start of the expansion era in 1967. 2001 — Randy Johnson becomes the third pitcher to strike out 20 in nine innings, but doesnt finish the game as the Arizona Diamondbacks go on to beat Cincinnati 4-3 in 11 innings. 2003 — Minnesota becomes the first team in NHL history to rebound from two 3-1 series deficits in one postseason with a 4-2 victory at Vancouver. 2011 — Jason Terry ties an NBA playoff record with nine 3-pointers and the Dallas Mavericks tie another postseason mark with 20 3s, powering them in during a 122-86 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers and a sweep of their second-round series. 2011 — University of Georgia senior Russell Henley becomes the second amateur winner in PGA Nationwide Tour history, shooting a 3-under 68 for a two-stroke victory in the Stadion Classic. The event is held on the Bulldogs home course and the three-time All-America selection finishes at 12-under 272. 2012 — Josh Hamilton becomes the 16th player to hit four home runs in a game, launching a quartet of two-run drives against three different pitchers to carry the Texas Rangers to a 10-3 victory over the Baltimore Orioles. Today in Sports History -- May 9 By The Associated Press 1930 — Gallant Fox, ridden by Earl Sande, wins the Preakness Stakes by three-quarters of a length over Crack Brigade. Gallant Fox becomes the only Triple Crown winner to win the Preakness a week before the Kentucky Derby. 1932 — Burgoo King, ridden by Eugene James, withstands a strong drive by Tick On to win the Preakness Stakes by a head. 1942 — Alsab, ridden by Basil James, wins the Preakness Stakes by one length over Requested. 1944 — Jockey Walter Warren is involved in a rare feat in thoroughbred racing history, riding two horses to dead heat first-place finishes at Sportsmans Park. In the sixth race, Warren rides Maejames to a dead heat finish with Piplad. In the eighth, Warren rides Susan Constant in another dead heat with Three Sands. 1961 — Jim Gentile of the Baltimore Orioles hits consecutive grand slams in the first and second innings of a 13-5 rout of Minnesota. 1987 — Baltimores Eddie Murray becomes the first major leaguer to hit home runs from both sides of the plate in consecutive games as the Orioles beat the Chicago White Sox 15-6 at Comiskey Park. 1993 — The Phoenix Suns beat the Los Angeles Lakers 112-104 in overtime to become the first NBA team to lose two playoff games at home and come back to win three straight. 1999 — Marshall McDougall hits six consecutive homers and knocks in 16 runs — both NCAA records — in Florida States 26-2 rout of Maryland. 2004 — Jay Bouwmeester scores the winning goal, and Canada rallies to beat Sweden for the second straight year in the gold-medal game at the world hockey championships, 5-3. 2006 — Joffrey Lupul becomes the first player in NHL playoff history to cap a four-goal game with an overtime score, netting the game-winner at 16:30 of the extra period to give Anaheim a 4-3 victory over Colorado. 2009 — LeBron James scores 47 points to lift Cleveland to a 97-82 win over Atlanta. The Cavaliers set an NBA record with their seventh straight double-figure win to eclipse the mark set by the 2004 Indiana Pacers. 2010 — Dallas Braden pitches the 19th perfect game in major league history, a dazzling performance for the Oakland Athletics in a 4-0 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays. 2011 — The ATP and WTA tennis rankings are released with no American man or woman in the top 10 for the first time in the 38-year history of the rankings. Mardy Fish and Andy Roddick are Nos. 11 and 12, while Serena and Venus Williams were Nos. 17 and 19, respectively. 2013 — A 72-foot-long, high-tech catamaran sailboat capsizes in San Francisco Bay while practicing for the Americas Cup races this summer, killing an Olympic gold medalist from England and injuring another sailor. Andrew Bart Simpson dies after the capsized boats platform traps him underwater for about 10 minutes.
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