Right now, Pense needs your help! Pense is one of 4 finalists in the Kraft Hockeyville contest for $250,000 to go towards rink upgrades and voting is on NOW! Graeme Crosbie is on the Board of Directors for the Pense Memorial Rink and joins Jamie and Wheels to give us one more push for Pense!
This Day in Sports
- 1926 - The New York Rangers, preparing for their first season in the NHL, sign defenseman Clarence Abel, a native of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, who becomes the first U.S.-born player to earn a regular spot in the League. Abel, nicknamed "Taffy," is one of the biggest players of his era at 6-foot-1, 225 pounds
- 1959 - The AFL is formed with New York, Dallas, LA, Minneapolis, Denver and Houston
- 1990 - The City of Denver votes for a 1% sales tax to pay for a baseball franchise… the start of the Colorado Rockies
- 2004 - 19 year old Michael Phelps wins his first Olympic Gold medal in the 400m Individual Medley
- 2016 - Usain Bolt wins the 100m Gold in Rio, the first person to win Olympic Gold in the 100m race three times; Canadian Andre De Grasse wins Bronze
- 1989 - Sega Genesis was released in North America