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This day in Sports History.
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It's April 4th, and on this day 43 years ago, we celebrated the greatest air ball in
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college basketball history.
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This was the 1983 NCAA national championship game between the cardiac pack of NC State
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and the fraternity of high-flying rim-rockers known as FI-Slamajama, featuring all Americans
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Clyde Drexler and a chemo-lazyman.
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The Cougars were a bit handcuffed in the first half of this game after Drexler picked
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up his fourth foul on the night, he had to set out the remainder of the half and the first
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10 minutes of the second half, and then he had to play tentatively on defense when he
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This was also the pre-shot clock era, and even though there was a 3-point line painted
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on the court, the 3-point shot was not in effect for the tournament.
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With 102 remaining in the game and the score tied at 52, Houston missed the front end of
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a 1-in-1, the pack grabbed the rebound and went into a spread offense playing for the last
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shot, and Houston went into their half-court trap defense, meaning they were not sitting
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back in his own, they were going for steals.
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And they came close several times, here's NC State's play-by-play man Wally Osley with
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And second, now Sydney goes to Bayley in the corner, five seconds left, the Whitmer,
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Whitmer tries about a 30-footer, no good step back, Lorenzo Charles, State, Lorenzo Charles
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flammed it in, a miss shot from 35 feet, Lorenzo Charles grabbed it, messed it back in, the
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Cinderella team has done it, the glass flip were fit, so Wolfpack has won the National
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Championship. And of course that ignited one of the great celebrations as Jim Volvano ran
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around the court looking for somebody, anybody to hug. The cardiac pack had pulled off the
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incredible, winning three games in the ACC tournament just to make the NCAA tournament,
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and then six more to win their second national title in school history, 54-52.
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Surprising fact, after having 14 dunks against Louisville in the semi-final game two nights
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before, Vais Lama-Jama only had one dunk against the pack, and that one came in the first half by
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Akima Lajawan. Also on this day in sports history, in 1985 Tulane eliminated its men's basketball
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program after a points shaving scandal was uncovered, not to lose, but to win by less than the
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points spread. Tulane student came up with the idea, and several players benefited from it,
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receiving between $409 for their participation. On this day in 1965, Sam Sneed won the
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Greater Greensboro Open. It was the final win of his career, setting the all-time mark four wins
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at 82, while also becoming the oldest golfer to everyone a PGA Tour event at the age of 52
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years, ten months, and eight days. Tiger Woods equaled his win total in 2020.
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And in 2016, Villanova's Chris Jenkins buzzer beating three lifted the wildcats to the national title
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with the 77-74 win over North Carolina.
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And who knows, maybe we'll get another finish like that on Monday night.
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Time now for today's, that's got nothing to do with sports. Fun fact,
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if you thought portable music came about in the 1980s with the Sony Walkman, well think again,
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the first truly portable music player predates those devices by about six decades when a pair
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of Hungarian brothers invented the microphone in 1924. It was a small, portable record player that
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when folded up in its case could be carried around in a purse or a really big pocket. At a turntable,
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a tone arm, and a small speaker, and it played 10-inch, 78 RPM records.
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