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  1983 - Gurupedia
1980 1981 1982 - 1983 - 1984 1985 1986
Hurricane Alicia hits the Texas coast, killing 22 and causing over US$1 billion in damage (1983 dollars).
September 1 - Cold War: Korean Air Flight KAL-007 is shot down by a Soviet jet fighter when the commercial aircraft entered Soviet airspace.
www.gurupedia.com /1/19/1983.htm   (724 words)

  
  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: 1983
See also: 1983 in music (UK) Musical groups established in 1983 Record labels established in 1983 // Michael Jacksons Thriller, the most successful album not only of 1983, but of all time, was released in 1982 and began its epic domination of the music charts the following year, 1983.
Delayed the June 1983 cost-of-living adjustment until December 1983 (January 3,1984 checks) and provides for future adjustments payable in January rather than July of each year.
For instance, it provided for an increase in SSI benefit rates beginning with July 1983 by $20 for an individual and $30 for a couple.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1983   (1075 words)

  
  Sports in Turkey
Activities are continuing for sports, which became an essential passion and a way of life in the developed countries of the world, to take the place it deserves in Turkey just before the twenty-first century as an important social activity.
Sport in Turkey is being encouraged and supported by the state and sports clubs are given financial aid.
The main targets of the sports policy of the state are to increase the number of athletes, to attain superior successes at international sports competitions, to prepare suitable sports environment for encouraging and providing for every individual at every age to engage in sports activities.
www.enjoyturkey.com /info/culture/Sports.htm   (1190 words)

  
 Sports marketing surveys: ASD focus on sports participation behavior.   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Over the past sixteen years, sports marketing surveys have shown that in many sports, participation trends are clearly correlated with consumer purchases; conversely, some athletic categories (such as footwear and apparel) are fashion-driven, bearing little relation to sports participation.
Sports marketing surveys reveal that sports participation is in effect, the inexorable "gold standard" to which all markets eventually returns and in the final analysis, our sports marketing surveys show that it is actual sports participation that defines the size, composition, and ultimately the trend of the product market.
American Sports Data Inc. is recognized as the definitive source for physical fitness and sports participation data in the U.S. Sports marketing surveys have been part of our syndicated and custom research reports based on sports participation tracking studies since 1983.
www.americansportsdata.com /sports-marketing-surveys.asp   (287 words)

  
 Juan Marichal-Latino Legends in Sports
Juan Marichal is the first Dominican inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1983 and his uniform No. 27 has been retired by the San Francisco Giants.
In 1997, The Juan Marichal Little League team was created in Washington Heights, NYC with the assistance of Manolo Prince, Sports Director at the Dominican Consulate.
Marichal currently resides in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic and serves as Minister of Sports for the Dominican Government.
www.latinosportslegends.com /Marichal_Juan-bio.htm   (865 words)

  
 50 Greatest Sports Moments of All Time - James Campion
This list is comprised of moments, not necessarily moments in the field of play or during the competitive nature of sports, or particularly grand moments; but moments, either good or ill, where the times, the competition, the era changed in the face of the forever-changing world of sport.
In a moment forever held in time for every figure in sports history to heed, a dying man stood before over 60,000 people and the world to impart the genuine feeling that he was "the luckiest man in the world" for having the opportunity to endeavor through the love of his craft.
Free Agency in baseball and professional sports is born.
www.jamescampion.com /greatest_sports.html   (1983 words)

  
 ♠Summary of NFL games from 1983 to 2003 - The Wizard of Odds
This shows why sport books are slow to change a point spread to or away from 3 or 7.
Some casinos offer a nickel line during a "happy hour" and the Pinnacle off-shore sport book offers a nickel line on the NFL all the time.
The value of the home dog bet is also treated in Sharp Sports Betting by Stanford Wong.
wizardofodds.com /games/sports/sports_apx2.html   (1297 words)

  
 Women In Sports
Four sporting bodies - The Football Association, Rugby Football Union for Women, EnglishCricket Board and the Rugby League Policy Board - have signed up to Women Into High Performance Coaching and are committed to the representation of more women at the elite end of sports coaching.
It is widely acknowledged that women are under-represented in all spheres of coaching, umpiring and sports administration.
The NCF is developing the programme in partnership with the Women's Sports Foundation, the only organisation in the UK dedicated to promoting the development of women in sport.
www.womensoccer.com /refs/wsports/wis_england_27jan01.html   (481 words)

  
 Cricket World Cup England 1983
The tournament was held in England for the third consecutive time, between 9 and 25 June 1983.
The preliminary matches were played in 2 groups of 4 each as in the previous two tournaments, though this time each country played the other teams in it's group twice.
In 1999, the trophy won by the Indian cricket team at the 1983 World Cup was damaged during a violent rampage on the Indian cricket board's headquarters by the Hindu nationalist group Shiv Sena.
www.topendsports.com /events/cricket-world-cup/hosts/1983-england/index.htm   (164 words)

  
 CBS
CBS Sports broadcasts the highest rated (49.1/73) Super Bowl of all time as the San Francisco 49ers, led by Joe Montana, defeat the Cincinnati Bengals, 26-21.
CBS Sports covers Boston College's quarterback Doug Flutie's "Hail Mary" to the end zone for a miraculous comeback victory that seals Flutie's bid as the Heisman Trophy winner.
CBS Sports' broadcast of this game is the second highest rated championship game of all time (23.3/33).
www.cbs.com /specials/cbs_75/timeline/1980.shtml   (972 words)

  
 Baseball Almanac - Year In Review : 1983 American League
On June 24, 1983, Don Sutton of Milwaukee fanned Alan Bannister in the eighth inning of a 6-2 game versus Cleveland.
On July 4, 1983, Dave Righetti pitched a 4-0 no-hitter in Yankee Stadium versus the Boston Red Sox.
On July 6, 1983, the American League won the Midsummer Classic 13-3.
www.baseball-almanac.com /yearly/yr1983a.shtml   (924 words)

  
 Bob Stanley . 1974 in sports . 1983 in sports . Norwich Navigators . San Francisco Giants
A native of Portland, Maine, he was a first-round pick of Boston in 1974 in sports 1974.
His best season came in 1983 in sports 1983 when he led the Sox with 33 saves and posted a 2.45 Earned run average ERA.
Stanley was a key member of the 1986 in sports 1986 Red Sox team that came within one out of winning the World Series but ultimately fell to the New York Mets Mets in seven games.
www.uk.kunsimuna.net /Bob_Stanley_UK_539355_jr   (706 words)

  
 Sports
Chess, wrestling, polo, archery, badminton and hockey are some of the games that are believed to have originated in India.
In India, dehvada or the body-way is defined as "one of the ways to full realisation." In the day and age of the Rig-Veda, Ramayana and Mahabharata men of stature and circumstance were expected to be competent in chariot-racing, archery, horsemanship, military tactics, wrestling, weight-lifting, swimming and hunting.
India's modern day achivements in sports are fewer as compared to other nations of the world.
www.diehardindian.com /ntertain/sports.htm   (529 words)

  
 List of sports events
This page indexes the individual year in sports pages.
Each year is annotated with a significant event as a reference point.
1993 in sports - Monica Seles is stabbed during a tennis tournament
www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/l/li/list_of_sports_events.shtml   (585 words)

  
 1983 in sports - Definition, explanation
Sports participation, sporting goods research, physical fitness trends, lifestyle...
Organized in 1983 in Southeastern Pennsylvania, encouraging carriage drivers with fun and challenging activities with an emphasis on safety in all aspects of the driving experience.
A conservation based sports club that was formed in 1983 by a dedicated group of fisherman on the...
www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/1/19/1983_in_sports.php   (1446 words)

  
 WSU in midst of best year since 1983 - Sports
WSU in midst of best year since 1983 - Sports
WSU in midst of best year since 1983
If you had told Washington State junior center Robbie Cowgill at the beginning of the year that the Cougars would be 17-4 and ranked No. 18, he wouldn't have believed you.
wildcat.arizona.edu /home/news/2007/02/01/Sports/Wsu-In.Midst.Of.Best.Year.Since.1983-2690965.shtml   (1246 words)

  
 Exercise Machines   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Canadian Congress of Sport and Physical Activity, Abstracts, October: 1973.
Computerized biomechanical analysis of the knee joint during deep knee bend with heavy load.
Proceedings of a National Symposium on The Racquet Sports, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 105-123, 1979.
www.sportscience.org /adi2001/adi/about/founder/adw-25d.asp   (474 words)

  
 INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - ORGANISATION - STRUCTURES   (Site not responding. Last check: )
They monitor the everyday administration of their sports and guarantee the regular organisation of competitions as well as respect for the rules of fair play.
The General Association of International Sports Federations (GAISF), founded in 1967, groups together the International Sports Federations and various associations with the aim of defending world-wide sport, becoming better informed and making themselves known, and cooperating and coordinating their activities.
Its aim is to create a forum which brings together all the sports bodies once a year for an exchange of views on subjects of common interest.
www.olympic.org /uk/organisation/if   (683 words)

  
 Ryne Duren . June 15 . American League . Boston Red Sox . Texas Rangers . 1983 in sports   (Site not responding. Last check: )
He was rumored to have hit a player waiting in the on-deck circle, supposedly because he could not see which way to throw to home plate.
He was originally signed by the St. Louis Browns now the Baltimore Orioles as a free agent before the 1949 in sports 1949 season.
His first major league game was on September 25, 1954 in sports 1954 by which time the Browns had moved to Baltimore.
www.uk.fraquisanto.net /Ryne_Duren   (560 words)

  
 Al Michaels, sports celebrities, al michaels, sports personalities   (Site not responding. Last check: )
He has twice (1983 and 1986) been selected as the national Sportscaster of the Year by his peers in the electronic and print media.
Michaels served as play-by-play announcer during ABC Sports' coverage of the Stanley Cup in 1993.
An all-around sports enthusiast, Michaels was born in Brooklyn, where he grew up as a Dodger fan.
www.barberusa.com /sports2/michaels_al.html   (703 words)

  
 O's fans to party like it's still 1966 - Sports - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper   (Site not responding. Last check: )
From 1966 to 1983, the Orioles won six American League pennants and three World Series titles and only finished worse than third in the league or the division once.
As Baltimore baseball suffers through its ice age -- nine straight losing seasons and counting -- the proud history of the franchise is all Orioles fans have to care about, all there is left to cherish.
It wasn't, for a while, when the Colts left town in 1983 and the Orioles had it all to themselves.
www.washtimes.com /sports/20061018-115502-6809r.htm   (642 words)

  
 Deputed Testamony spelled win in '83 Preakness - The Washington Times: Sports - May 10, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: )
There is no disputing (deputing?), however, that the 3-year-old stood briefly atop the thoroughbred world after his 15 minutes of fame — actually one minute and 55 2/5 seconds over a mile and 3/16ths on a sloppy track.
With apologies to Frank Sinatra, 1983 was a very good year for Maryland sports.
Especially at Old Hilltop on May 21, 1983, in the 108th running of what cliche clutchers like to call the second jewel of thoroughbred racing's Triple Crown.
www.washtimes.com /sports/20040510-010231-5040r.htm   (1171 words)

  
 SPORTS INFORMATION OFFICE RECORDS
The Sports Information Office functions both as a record keeper of statistics on athletes and as a public relations representative for the athletic department.
The Sports Information Office Records contain scoring summaries for basketball and football games and publications, including pamphlets, game programs, and press guides for the university's basketball, football, tennis, track, and golf programs.
The dates for the scoring summaries are from 1978 to 1983, with the 1982 football summaries missing.
www.etsu.edu /cass/Archives/Collections/UFindaid/u217.htm   (544 words)

  
 Doctors of the South Florida Sports Medicine Center   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A sports enthusiast with a Fellowship in Sports Medicine, he combines a love of medicine with a particular interest in fitness and athletics.
He provides a full array of medical services in the field of orthopaedics with specializations in ACL knee reconstruction and rotator cuff repairs of the shoulder.
Dr. Kessler's medical training includes a Fellowship in Sports Medicine at the University of Miami where he worked with the Miami Hurricanes football team, along with a residency in orthopaedic surgery and internship in general surgery at New York University Medical Center.
www.soflasportsmed.com /doctors.htm   (504 words)

  
 Division of Sports Medicine
Jeffery R. Kovan, D.O., received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Michigan State University in 1983 and 1987, respectively.
In 1991, he completed a Fellowship in Sports Medicine at Michigan State University.
Dr. Kovan was Director of Sports Medicine at MSU-KCMS from 1991 to 1995 and is currently the Director of Sports Medicine at Michigan State Univeristy.
www.rad.msu.edu /SportsMed/pages/bios/kovanbio.htm   (99 words)

  
 ipedia.com: 1983 Article   (Site not responding. Last check: )
1980 1981 1982 - 1983 - 1984 1985 1986
Wednesday, January 19, 1983 - The Apple Lisa personal computer is announced.
November 26 - Brinks Mat robbery: In London, 6,800 gold bars worth nearly UK£26 million are taken from the Brinks Mat vault at Heathrow Airport (only a fraction of the gold was ever recovered, and only two men were convicted of the crime)[1].
www.ipedia.com /1983.html   (1057 words)

  
 Albion College Men's Track and Field
The first of five Albion College NCAA Division III track champions since 1980, Garner is one of two Britons selected all-MIAA for four seasons in men's track.
Garner is pictured at the 1983 NCAA Division III championship at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois, after he cleared a Division III record seven feet, 2 1/4 inch height.
Along with the national title and Division III high jump record in 1983, Garner was sixth in the triple jump.
www.albion.edu /sports/mtrack/gallery/garner.asp   (104 words)

  
 Loras College -- Dubuque, IA
Batted.413 with 21 runs batted in to help lead the Duhawks to their best season in school history with a third place finish at the 1983 NAIA nationals and a 31-10 record.
Named to the NAIA District 15, NAIA all-Tournament and NAIA All-American first teams during the 1983 seasons.
Ranks 4th in career hitting with a.337 batting average.
depts.loras.edu /sports/hof/huinker_ann.html   (79 words)

  
 Sports: Breaking Records, Breaking Barriers | Marilyn Hamilton | Smithsonian's National Museum of American History |
After a hang-gliding accident in 1979, Marilyn Hamilton turned her disability into an opportunity for thousands of athletes who use wheelchairs and play sports.
When Hamilton took up tennis, her company developed a wheelchair for the sport.
Hamilton removed a seemingly insurmountable physical barrier and today tennis is one of the fastest-growing wheelchair sports.
americanhistory.si.edu /sports/exhibit/removers/wheelchair/index.cfm   (174 words)

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