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NCAA
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Lou Gehrig appers on a Wheates
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All-American Professional Girls Baseball League
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Wilson Sporting Goods signed golfer Babe Didrickson Zaharias
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Phil Knight opens Blue Ribbon Sports.
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Blue Ribbon Sports renames to Nike .
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Title IX is enacted, mandating equal access to educational opportunities for men and women.
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Rich Foods pays $60,000/year for the naming rights to the Buffalo Bills football stadium.
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The US boycotts the Summer Olympics in Moscow.
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The Olympics becomes commercialized. Peter Ueberoth helps to make the Olympics profitable.
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Olympic Park in Atlanta, GA is bombed.